About the Firm
Laura Soll is a public relations and event management specialist with more than 25 years of experience in Southern New England. Her firm received three First Place Gold Mercury Awards in four years from the Public Relations Society of America's Connecticut Valley chapter. She was honored for publicity of the Connecticut Veterans Day Parade, for publicity of the National Paralysis Association's 1998 Rise to the Occasion fundraiser in West Hartford, with actor/director Christopher Reeve, and for creation/promotion of the Bloomfield Drum & Music Festival, a multicultural regional event.
She has been a Planning Committee member for all of the University of Connecticut (UConn) Basketball Victory Parades/Rallies in Hartford, and managed the public relations effort for the last two events.
Ms. Soll has worked as Director of Press & Publicity and Community Relations for WFSB Channel 3 (CBS affiliate for Hartford/New Haven), Vice President of Andrea Obston Marketing Communications, Director of Public Relations and Special Projects for the Greater Hartford Convention & Visitors Bureau, Corporate Communications Administrator for The Travelers Companies, and Manager of Media Relations for Connecticut Gov. William O'Neill's Commission on Private & Public Responsibilities for Financing Long-Term Care for the Elderly (on loan from The Travelers). She also managed the 1989 Taste of Hartford, raising $50,000 for Foodshare of Greater Hartford.
She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), is a Board Member of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Connecticut chapter and a Past President and present member of the Board of Directors of Channel 3 Kids Camp. Ms. Soll is a founder of Citizens for a United Windsor (Conn.), which promotes racial, ethnic and religious understanding, and is a recipient of a Windsor Bridge-Builders Award.
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