Jacquelyn Marushka

Jackie Marushka is a creative entrepreneur with 30 years’ experience in story development, public relations, brand building, and growing successful businesses. She founded Marushka Media, a boutique PR and Branding agency, in 2016, and creates and executes career-enhancing PR and marketing campaigns for clients in the entertainment and non-profit arenas.Before stepping out on her own to launch the first and only Hispanic woman-owned PR company across the country and Americana music genres, she started and led Shore Fire Media's Nashville office (known for Bruce Springsteen, Lana Del Rey and others) as GM (2013-2016). Prior to that, she led a division of Sony Music Entertainment as one of its youngest Vice Presidents and her division’s first VP of Public Relations. She handled PR for its distribution company, more than 40 recording artists across five record labels, a publishing company, a film company, and corporate communications.

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Deadlines loomed, album release dates shifted and artists' schedules changed — constantly. This taught her the value of balance, and how much she enjoyed mentoring up-and-coming talent and helping others refine their stories. It also taught her the importance of giving back to the people and organizations that make her home states (Tennessee and New Mexico) healthy, beautiful and interesting.  

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Now, she makes time to serve as a board member for the Americana Music Association, The Recording Academy, and the Tennessee Latin American Chamber of Commerce (TLACC). She mentors women and college students through the TLACC affiliated organizations, Ella and Futuro, and in May 2021, she was appointed to Nashville’s Auditorium Commission by Mayor John Cooper.

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One of her proudest moments was curating and hosting the first-ever *Latíne Panel at the Americana Music Association's Festival and Conference (Sept. 2021) with moderator Felix Contreras of NPR, Raul Malo of the Mavericks, folk artist Phoebe Hunt, and iconic recording and touring artist, Tish Hinojosa.This was the first time in the 20+ year history of the organization that Spanish-language music and culture was a focal point. The panel explored what it means to be a Latíne artist through the eyes and journeys of this esteemed panel of new and established artists.

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She helped start the Music City Yoga Festival (2013) and is a founding board member of Small World Yoga (2014). As a certified Yoga and Pilates instructor, she invests in the lives of abused, neglected, and abandoned youth through yoga programs she started at Monroe Harding and Rocketown, non-profit organizations that serve at-risk youth in Tennessee.

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She is a Leadership Music alum (2004), a member of The Recording Academy, Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music, the American Association of Independent Music, and proudly serves on the Academy Awards (Oscars) Public Relations team.Jackie grew up in the small farming community of Velarde, NM. The star-filled skies taught her to dream big. The snake-filled mountains taught her to be present and alert. The flavor and color of New Mexico’s green chile and apple orchard harvests fed her love of light and story. As a student at Saint Catherine's Indian School, and a graduate of Espanola Valley High School and the University of New Mexico, she learned the richness of cultural diversity, and how adversity can strengthen you — if you let it.

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Helping others become the best versions of themselves is not just a calling for Jackie, but a blessing, and she lives each day rooted in gratitude and possibility.