Unfolding Communications

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About Us

Experience

Unfolding Communications is a marketing and public relations firm founded in 2003 in the New York Metro. Since 2005, we have served clients nationally from Lincoln, Nebraska.

Our team has led hundreds of strategic public relations campaigns to launch bestselling books, international nonprofits, award-winning products, national show homes, start-up companies, and lifestyle trends across North America. We know exactly what it takes to build a brand and to connect with target audiences.

We're dedicated to helping you. Tell us your story. We'll share it with the world.

Personalized Service

We see clients as partners, which means we listen to you and work with your team to develop a communications strategy, manage programs and craft tactics to achieve your short-term and long-term goals.

In all we do, we strive to deliver the best value for your budget, and do it with accountability, accuracy, honesty and integrity.

Leadership

Owner and principal Linda Stephen has more than 15 years of public relations experience on five continents for book and magazine publishers, multinational corporations, Fortune 500s, authors, conferences, artists, manufacturers, United Nations agencies, and local and national nonprofits.

She is a strategic planner with an eye for detail and the flexibility to capture new possibilities. A former teacher, coach and manufacturing manager, Stephen communicates clearly and effectively with team members and external audiences.

Her media relations work has garnered thousands of positive features for her clients in top media such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Time, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, CNN, NPR, BBC, NHK, and The New York Times.

She presents workshops in Lincoln and around the country on publicity tips for entrepreneurs, artists, illustrators and authors.

Linda is fluent in Japanese and holds an M.A. in international journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. A former university cross-country running team captain with a 2nd degree black belt in the martial art Shorinji Kempo, Linda is willing to go the distance for her clients.

COMMUNITY COMMITMENT

Linda is an active community leader in Lincoln, Nebraska, volunteering more than 300 hours a year to local nonprofits. Her current service includes Girl Scouts Spirit of Nebraska artVenture volunteer artist, Lincoln Arts Council volunteer, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) presenter, Lincoln 55+ book reviewer, and more. Past service includes the Seniors Foundation Board of Directors (event & marketing committees), Scouts BSA Troop 25 board member and merit badge counselor, Boy Scout Salt Valley District Roundtable representative, Lincoln Artists Guild board (publicity chair), Lincoln Public Schools (writing tutor, artist in residence, PTO, Gifted rep), Lincoln Mayor's Environmental Task Force (transportation committee), and National Parks Service artist (Homestead National Park, U.S. Botanical Gardens).

A nationally award-winning paper artist with artworks in public and private collections around the world, Linda presents workshops across the country on Japanese paper arts, origami (paper folding), community collaborations and design thinking. See a gallery of her intricate origami landscapes at LindaStephen.com. In 2020, Handersen Publishing published her origami picture book The Day We Went to the Park, which won the Illustration Honor from the 2021 Nebraska Book Awards, presented by the Nebraska Library Commission. Through playful rhyming verses and more than 1,000 origami sculptures, the story invites readers to observe, imagine and interact with nature at the park. The Day We Went to the Park is available anywhere books are sold and is in libraries across the country. Signed personalized copies available at LindaStephen.com. Available also at area bookstores, parks and art galleries, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.