Aleda Stam is a communications professional that specializes in thought leadership and media relations. She is a trained journalist with a decade’s worth of experience in retail, communications, marketing and advertising trade. Aleda was previously a senior reporter at Ad Age, covering creative and media ad agencies. Before that, she covered public relations agencies and corporate communications as a senior reporter at PRWeek. When not consuming news and media trends, Aleda’s voracious appetite for the written word is quenched with the latest romantasy or science fiction best seller.

Aleda graduated from the Robert E. Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a dual degree in Journalism and Communications.