Andrea Odom

I kind of wear two hats in my professional life. I've been in the media and PR space for about 10 years, but with my new company, Black Sports Moms, we started that about a year ago. I started my career in sales, in pharmaceutical and medical devices, and then really came into this after doing media and PR for a very high-profile murder trial that shocked the whole nation - the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial. I did all the media for that, nationally as well as internationally. After that, I started doing wrongful death, police brutality, just all kind of different expose-type cases with a lot of lawyers, and then also moved into the political space, did some campaigns for mayor, state senate, attorney general, state representatives and stuff like that. That's really kind of how my PR and communications career started to thrive. I'm really at the intersectionality of communicating and storytelling, creating that narrative. I'm a connector too, just a natural connector of people. My most notable professional achievement would definitely be coordinating all of the media for the Ahmaud Arbery trial in Georgia, and at the same time simultaneously running the attorney who managed that, running his campaign for State Attorney General. I'm also a certified family and general mediator, which is a really cool skill to have when you're negotiating. I went to Texas Southern University, which is an HBCU here in Houston, and I'm born and raised in Houston as well.