Emily Port | Senior Public Relations Manager

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Emily Port is an insightful, results-driven brand builder. She has spent her 15-year career helping corporations, public relations firms and nonprofit organizations create life-long relationships with their diverse audiences.

Emily currently works with a variety of GroundFloor Media’s clients, including consumer products, food & beverage accounts and professional service firms, and she thrives by developing and implementing integrated communications campaigns that incorporate community relations, grassroots marketing, charitable partnerships and media relations. In fact, she is best known for her successful integrated communications programs in the restaurant and hospitality industry.

Prior to joining GroundFloor Media, Emily was director of field marketing for Noodles & Company, a national restaurant chain serving noodle dishes from around the world. During her tenure there, she helped the company grow from 30 restaurants to more than 120 in 15 markets across the United States. Emily was directly responsible for crafting strategies to expand existing markets and launch new markets, ensuring that Noodles & Company became one of the few outstanding brands that successfully connected with individuals throughout each community it served.

Emily also brings a wide array of experience from her tenure at two Denver public relations and advertising agencies. She was director of account service for Morrison-Young Advertising, overseeing several health care-related accounts. Emily also handled media relations, promotions, special events and crisis communications for a number of restaurant and hospitality accounts, including Dick’s Last Resort, Poly Ester’s, Chili’s and Burger King, while at The Exline Agency.

Before moving to Denver, Emily handled communications for American Forests, a nonprofit environmental group in Washington, D.C. Her experience included developing corporate partnerships to raise funds for reforesting damaged lands, as well as organizing and publicizing special events including races, charitable tree plantings and urban forestry conferences.

Emily earned a bachelor’s degree in
political science from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. She lives in central Denver with her husband and two daughters and enjoys hiking, skiing and spending time with her family.