Brooke Medansky

Brooke Medansky leads the Public Relations team at Tuft & Needle, the bootstrapped, Phoenix-based company that changed the way mattresses were designed and sold. Prior to returning to the city she was raised in to work for the company that won Entrepreneur’s 2017 Top Company Culture award, Brooke gained nearly 10 years of PR experience in New York and Los Angeles, primarily in independent film distribution for companies including Amplify Releasing, BOND Strategy and Influence, and Millennium Entertainment. She began her career at MPRM Communications, handling PR campaigns for various film releases including Beginners and Food, Inc., award shows, film festivals, and served as the show publicist for “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

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