Laura Salazar-Wicker is a passionate artist and an avid small business owner/entrepreneur. She recently launched ATD Social Media Solutions, a social media management company helping businesses manage their online presence by keeping them current, connected and relevant.

Laura joins her passion marketing and creating with her extensive knowledge in traditional business, public relations and marketing principles and concepts to an existing and real knowledge of the various social media platforms.

Prior to this, she served as Assistant Director of Stewardship and Donor Relations in the Office of College Advancement at Pitzer College where she applied her extensive knowledge of fundraising and employed a strong organizational structure to the program she built from the ground up using a best practices and sustainable strategy approach. Laura also spent four years in the development office at Scripps College, Claremont, CA and has an established background in planning and producing special events and trade conferences.

A Pitzer College alumna, Laura earned her B.A. in Political Studies and is currently an MA candidate at Claremont Graduate University, Arts Management Program with a Non-Profit Management concentration.

She also serves on the board of Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater Los Angeles Chapter and is an affiliate member of the Let’s Get Social Network, the largest known social media management network, a member of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, (CASE) District VII, and member of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, Association of Donor Relations Professionals and the Donor Relations Network.

Laura is also a talented artist and the CEO of A Total Diva Decorative Painting & Engraving, a small network of artists who provide specialized custom pieces to high-end retail stores and whose success she attributes to her knowledge and extensive use of social media.