Meet Gladys

Licensed Public Relations practitioner with 34 years of experience, serving local and international clients. After working with Comstat Rowland agency, and Telefónica Larga Distancia during the Equal Access process, in 1991 she joined the new public relations department of the Foote, Cone & Belding agency as a supervisor. In 1993 she founded the public relations department of the local agency Arteaga & Arteaga, holding the position of director and vice president. She served local and international clients in the Caribbean and Latin America, and established an affiliation agreement with MS&L.

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In 2000 she founded her firm GMD Public Relations Consultant, Inc. to provide advice on crisis prevention, planning and response, reputation and media relations plans, among other public relations services. In 2001 she obtained her Voluntary Accreditation Credential in Public Relations, APR, conferred by the Universal Accreditation Board in the United States. Five years later, she was appointed by the Puerto Rico Public Relations Association (ARPR) as Accreditation Chair to promote the APR credential among her colleagues, a role she has held pro bono until now. In 2018 she was appointed as a liaison between the ARPR and the Global Alliance for Public Relations & Communications Management (GA). She is a former member of the ARPR Board of Directors (2021 to 2022), appointed Education Director, and since 2021 she has served as a member of the GA Board of Directors for which she serves from 2023 to 2025 as Delegate-at-Large.

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Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communications Management

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https://www.globalalliancepr.org/