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Tyrha Lindsey leads an award-winning marketing/PR consulting company, L.A.I. Communications, which specializes in creating strategic solutions with a focus on ethnic marketing for media companies, arts organizations, health non-profits and small businesses. Past and current clients include Nassau University Medical Center, The Kroger Company, Trey McIntyre Project, American Diabetes Association, Splenda, The Terrie Williams Agency, The John Anson Ford Theater, Lulu Washington Dance Company, Health Alliance, Columbia Pictures, Haitian Americans United for Progress, Highmark Blue Cross*Blue Shield, Hebni Nutrition Consultants, Procter & Gamble, 3 Colored Girls Productions, the National Speaking of Women’s Health Foundation and Holistic Healthcare of Westchester.

Ms. Lindsey has over thirteen years of experience working in marketing and public relations in the arts, entertainment and non-profit arenas. She has worked with Quincy Jones*David Salzman Entertainment, NBC, Creative Artists Agency and Edmonds Entertainment both in the development of television and film ideas and properties. She has assisted in overseeing the production of such programs as MAD TV (FOX), In the House (UPN), Lost on Earth (USA) and VIBE (syndication). In the health arena, Ms. Lindsey has worked as the Regional Events Manager for the National Speaking of Women’s Health Foundation, where she produced women’s health conferences and television/radio activities. Ms. Lindsey was the creator of the Foundation’s national minority health initiative entitled Universal Sisters, which was sponsored by Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart. She has also worked as the Director of Development for the LifeCenter Organ Donor Network, overseeing the marketing/PR and fundraising for a national organ and tissue procurement organization.

Volunteer board affiliations include currently serving as a Board of Director for the Tony Award winning Crossroads Theater Company, Stroke of Hope, as well as on the Emerging Leaders Council for the Americans for the Arts. Ms. Lindsey is a former Board of Director for the United Way Foundation of Greater Cincinnati as well as for the Cincinnati Arts Consortium. She has also worked with the YWCA, New York Chapter of the Coalition of 100 Black Women, and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. on a local and national level. She received her Bachelor of Science in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and her Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree with a concentration in Marketing from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.