BARI LOVE

Bari Love joined Jackson Spalding in early 2007 to support strategic communications planning for the agency’s clients. She has worked in public relations and marketing for more than 20 years and spent several years as Managing Director of an International Agency’s Atlanta office.

Prior to that, she spent seven years as executive vice president at one of the Southeast’s largest integrated marketing agencies, where she established and built a public relations division that became one of Atlanta’s most respected. Her client work has garnered a number of awards including the PRSA Phoenix Award, PR Week “Product Brand Development Campaign of the Year” and the MAX Award from the Robinson College at GSU. Her career achievements were recognized in 2008 with the Georgia PRSA Chapter’s Radiant Star Award.

Bari has more than 300 published articles and photographs to her credit, written during her four years at Southern Living.

Bari graduated cum laude from the University of Alabama with a degree in Political Science. She also earned a certificate from the Georgia Tech Management Institute and is an alumnus of the Buckhead Business Association Leadership Development Program and the 2006 Class of Leadership Atlanta. She is a former President of the Public Relations Society of Georgia and currently serves on the boards of 21st Century Leaders, Central Atlanta Progress (CAP), Sunrise Bank of Atlanta and Leadership Atlanta.

A resident of Dunwoody, Bari enjoys photography, golf and tennis with husband Rusty. They are empty nesters with sons who’ve made them very proud at the University of Virginia and the University of Florida.