Newsletter Associates is the brain child of Portland, Oregon-based Creative Director Barbara Saunders. She brings extensive advertising, marketing, communications, and print and web design experience with a background that includes managing a full range of communication materials from concept to completion. She has a proven ability to generate innovative ideas and bring them to fruition.

Barbara received a bachelor's degree from the prestigious Brigham Young University School of Design and Communication; studied and interned in Paris, France, Florence, Italy, Saltzburg, Austria, and London, England; and earned an additional advanced degree in Graphic Design and Multimedia from Columbia.

She has coordinated the communication and marketing materials for several organizations in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.