Lisa Albert

Title: Director of Strategic Communications

Email: l.albert@tcu.edu

Phone: (817) 257-7810 office, (817) 454-0996 office cell

Area of Responsibility: athletics, administration, university spokeswoman

Lisa serves as director of communications and manages the day-to-day media relations for the University. Through this role, she handles crisis communications and serves as the University spokeswoman. She also offers strategic marketing and communication services to the university administration and acts as a liaison to the athletic department. Additionally, Lisa assists in management of social media sites. She has been in the industry for ten years and has experience in agency, non-profit and higher education organizations. Lisa earned a bachelor of science degree in journalism, advertising/public relations sequence and a master of science degree in strategic communication from TCU's Schieffer School of Journalism.

Holly Ellman

Title: Strategic Communications Specialist

Email: h.ellman@tcu.edu

Phone: (817) 257.5064 office, (817) 528-8555 office cell

Area of Responsibility: communication, science & engineering (Energy Institute, Institute of Child Development, Institute of Environmental Studies), nursing & health sciences (Center for Healthy Aging), Faculty Experts, Hometown News

Holly provides strategic marketing and communication services to TCU's College of Communication, College of Science & Engineering and Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences. She also manages the University's Faculty Experts and Hometown News efforts. Holly's past work experience includes serving in a communications capacity for Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth Country Day School and Witherspoon Marketing Communications. She began her undergraduate studies at TCU and earned a bachelor's degree from Texas Wesleyan University.

Sandy Record

Title: Manager, Internal Strategic Communications 

Email: s.record@tcu.edu

Phone: (817) 257-5060

Area of Responsibility: internal communications, design/merchandising/textiles, fine arts, Brite Divinity School, English, religion, campus construction

Sandy oversees and produces TCU's weekly employee newsletter which has recently transitioned to an online publication, the bi-annual Fine Arts Calendar and NewsWatch, a colorful review of TCU in the media spotlight. She is also the publicity liaison for the TCU College of Fine Arts, Brite Divinity School and other academic programs. Additionally, Sandy communicates updates with the campus community on campus construction. A childhood resident of White Plains, NY, Sandy received a bachelor's degree in journalism from TCU and began her career as a feature writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She later served for many years as editor of the employee publication for Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.

Gayla Todd

Title: Executive Assistant

Email: g.todd@tcu.edu

Phone: (817) 257-7810

Area of Responsibility: events

Gayla coordinates the daily office operations of the Office of Communications. Her duties include electronically gathering and archiving TCU news clips, maintaining the university Web calendar, designing the office holiday card, arranging faculty photo shoots, and assisting with numerous internal publications and events. She came to TCU with a degree in child development and 25 years of experience as assistant director of a pre-kindergarten program in Fort Worth.