TOWER AGENCY

Mission: Tower Agency is a team of emerging professionals creating dynamic, client-focused solutions through collaborative relationships and storytelling.

Benefits for Students:

    • Real-world experience
    • Services: graphic design, videography, social media, event planning, copywriting, etc.
    • Opportunities for involvement for students of all majors
    • Opportunities to manage projects
    • Lead teams
    • Work with clients on and off campus
    • Gain practicum hours
Tower Agency

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CLIENTS

For those interested in our services, please fill out an intake form and email it to toweragency@wartburg.edu.

EXECUTIVES

Katie Kreis
Position: CEO

Twitter: @house_of_kreis
Katie is a fourth-year studying public relations with hopes of joining the public relations team of a nonprofit or other mission-driven organization after graduation in May. She loves Tower Agency because of all the diverse minds that get to collaborate on projects; seeing those projects and ideas carried out is rewarding for her. A Wartburg tradition she loves is Christmas with Wartburg because she sings in a choir and loves the performance. A fun fact about Katie is that she was in a television commercial for filing systems in middle school.

Kendall Erenberger
Position: Copywriting Executive
Twitter:
@kendall_e98
Kendall is a second-year student studying organizational and public relations and minoring in graphic design, women’s studies and leadership. While her prospective career is open-ended at this point, she knows she wants to do something in the public relations field. What she loves about Tower Agency is that she is able to work with real clients and gain real-world experience that helps prepare her for her career. A Wartburg tradition she loves is Homecoming; because her mom is an alumnus of the college, she has attended since she was young and has a different perspective celebrating now as a student.

Angeline Neo
Position: Graphic Design Executive

Angeline is a third-year from Malaysia studying graphic design, with the dream of working in a company as a user experience designer in the United States. She says that the best part about Tower Agency is the amazing people she gets to work with. Her favorite Wartburg memory is the “winter outfly” when classes were cancelled due to the extreme cold. A fun fact about Angeline is that she has traveled to 14 countries with her family.

Kaylin Muggler
Position: Videography Executive
Twitter:
@kaymuggs
Kaylin’s responsibilities are to create a working environment for individuals to freely express their creativity as well as be a person they can reach out to for help or guidance in any way. The second-year’s dream job is either to professionally photograph a national sports team and create promotional videos for them, or to travel as a photographer/videographer for CNN or the Discovery Channel. She loves how Tower Agency is like a second family and is one of the most hardworking groups of people she’s ever met. Her favorite Wartburg memory is getting to be the Wartburg Knight while riding a horse in the homecoming parade this year. One fun fact about Kaylin is that she owns a hedgehog who loves to swim.

Nikki Campbell
Position: Social Media & Event Planning Executive
Twitter:
@NikkiCa10256055
A first-year student, Nikki’s dream job is to be the wedding event manager at Walt Disney World. She believes that Tower Agency allows her to build her portfolio and gain knowledge and experience in the professional world. Her favorite Wartburg memory so far was the day classes were cancelled for weather, because she stayed inside and hosted a Disney movie marathon. A fun fact about her is that she was born in Scottsdale, Arizona.

ADVISORS

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Chris Knudson, M.A., PRSSA Professional Advisor
Director, Wartburg Marketing & Communication Office
Emailchris.knudson@wartburg.edu
Chris serves as strategic counsel for the vice president of advancement and generates marketing approaches for the college. He is an account executive and manages the Marketing & Communication Office and Digital Print Center staff of Wartburg College. As an independent consultant, his clients have been based in Washington, D.C., New York, Charleston, S.C., New Orleans, and other locations around the Midwest. He is a past national vice president for PRSSA National and has been a Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) member since 2003.

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Dr. Penni Pier, PRSSA Faculty Advisor
Professor, Department of Journalism and Communication
Email:
penni.pier@wartburg.edu
Dr. Pier holds a B.A. degree in communication from Minnesota State University at Moorhead, an M.A. degree in communication from Missouri State University at Springfield, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Pier is a member of the National Communication Association and International Communication Association. She is the co-author of three books, Campaign ’96, published in 1999, The Primary Decision: A Functional Analysis of Debates in Presidential Primaries, published in 2002, and Campaign 2000, published in 2003. 

History
Seeing a need for an organization that would allow public relations majors to practice the skills they learned in the classroom, the Tower Agency was created in the spring of 1996. Under the advisement of Shelly Green, the Tower Agency was founded by Wartburg students Christi Larson ’97, Eric Allen ’98, Melissa Jacobson ’99 and Suzanne Behnke ’97. Larson served as the organization’s first Chief Executive officer.