The Peabody Office of Communications supports the college's strategic efforts through planning, production, and dissemination of various types of media to strengthen Peabody's reputation and positioning among graduate schools of education. Our team provides strategic advice and service for leadership communications; graduate and professional student recruitment; dissemination of research findings and research project activity; faculty, student, alumni and staff news; faculty and staff awards nominations; and signature events. The Office of Communications also maintains the Peabody College website.
Media Inquiries
Contacts:
Damon Maida, Associate Director of Media Relations
Julia Jordan, Senior Media Relations Specialist
John O’Brien, Senior Media Relations Specialist
Brian Smokler, Manager, VUStar Studio
Phone: 615-322-NEWS (6397), Option 1
Email: media@vanderbilt.edu
How You Can Request Help
- For stories, email Jenna Somers. Share your news about grants, publications, events, honors and awards.
- To add an event to the college calendar, fill out the Events@Vanderbilt form. Make sure to tag your event "peabody."
- Please check the Vanderbilt calendar and the AnchorLink calendar for conflicts before scheduling your event.
- To have your event included in public events bulletins, submit a MyVU event form.
- For video needs or social media, contact Krystal Schmidt.
- To update content on a Peabody College web page, please use the form below or contact Andrew Hartnett. For technical problems with a Peabody web page, submit a ticket to the University's Digital Strategies team.
- For all other projects, including graphic design, please complete the project request form.
Events@Peabody and Calendar Guidance
Events@Peabody is sent each Monday to Peabody faculty and staff. It focuses primarily on academic or academic-adjacent events.
If your event pertains primarily to academics or research:
To be included, your event must be posted to the Vanderbilt events calendar (https://events.vanderbilt.edu/) and tagged “peabody.” There is a form to do this at https://events.vanderbilt.edu/submit/. Events@Peabody also includes events of broad interest across the Peabody community—faculty, staff and students.
If your event is mostly student focused, co-curricular or social:
The Student Affairs Marketing Channels page is the go-to resource for student-facing promotions. You can also email studentaffairscommunications@vanderbilt.edu.
Approved student organizations hosting student-facing events should also post them to the AnchorLink calendar (https://anchorlink.vanderbilt.edu/).
Not sure where to post?
Our recommendation to academic departments and research centers is that you should always include your events on the university events calendar, regardless of intended audience. This will ensure that your event is included in Events@Peabody and in automated calendar feeds on the Peabody website.
Communications Team
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Kurt Brobeck
Director of Communications
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Jenny Abrams
Marketing Communications Project Manager
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Jenna Somers
Writer-Editor
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Jill Townsend
Senior Graphic Designer
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Krystal Schmidt
Digital Marketing Project Manager
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Andrew Hartnett
Website Manager
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Jenn Kiillerich
Editor-Writer
Communications Request Form
If you need to submit a request to the Office of Communications at Peabody College, please use our Peabody College Communications Request Form. This form has replaced our Web Request Form that was previously on this page. We use this form to receive all requests and delegate them to the appropriate party within our department.
We can help you with:
- Website and faculty/staff/student bio update requests
- Video requests
- Social media requests
- Graphic design requests
- Editorial, story, profile, or other published release requests
- Event promotion, recap, or design (social media, editorial, graphic design) requests
- Other
Please note that you will need to enter your VUNetID credentials to access the form.