is food, music, culture, entertainment, travel/hospitality, horticulture, philanthropy, the arts, history, the environment, individuality, creativity, humanitarianism and human interest in the heart of the matter… That's Stacey Kumagai. She boasts a career spanning over two decades in the entertainment/media industry as a professional whose expertise encompasses Radio & Television Broadcasting, Internet, Independent Film, Theatre, Advertising, Marketing, Promotions, Public Relations and Music Production working with BMI/ASCAP, SAG & AFTRA, IDA, WGA and AF of M in New York & Los Angeles and published author of a book on California State Law Taxation with a romantic comedy subplot for distribution to 400 worldwide offices in seven different languages. Her entire career has been devoted toward promoting, publicizing, producing and executing projects involving humanitarian and philanthropic efforts in association with passionate individuals involved in activism and the entertainment arts.
has involved in her array of clientele as ‘benefactors’ from concerts, celebrity appearances, CD, book and product sales, silent auctions, awards shows and events. Just a few of the organizations she has worked with: Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, American Heart Association, Alzheimer’s Foundation, Amnesty International, ACLU, City of Hope, Boys & Girls Club of America, Operation Smile, Hollenbeck Youth Center for Inner City Kids, Anklosing Spondylitis Foundation’s “On Your Feet to Defeat A.S.”, Kids Rock Free Music Education, NAACP, Independent Media Project for Minorities, Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, Hispanic Media Association, Women in Business, College Students in Broadcasting Scholarship Fund, Animal Rescue Foundation, Asian Performing Artists Association, Black Business Expo, Read Across America/Literacy Foundation, Jewish Home for the Aging, Children’s Miracle Network Telethon, Victims of Domestic Violence, Environmental Media Association, Earth Day, Closed Captioning for the Hearing Impaired, A.I.D.S. Project Los Angeles, Elizabeth Glaser’s Pediatric A.I.D.S Foundation, Project A.I.D.S./Kenya, Public Broadcasting, Special Olympics and an endless list of educational groups, healing/nutritional/health-well-being/therapeutic information associations, organizations for the benefit of children, seniors, human and animal rights; and earth (organic foods, environmentally sound vehicles and ‘green’ dry cleaning methods, organic gardening), and water cleanup, air quality, victims of fire/earthquake via local and regional churches and fire fighters groups; historical preservation; recycling, and tree planting. She has been the President of eleven corporations and entities, inclusive of her own public relations firm, Media Monster Communications, Inc., a special events production company, BrainGASM Productions and a non-profit charity organization called the Rhythm Channel Foundation for Deaf Musicians catering to the deaf & hearing impaired culture and communities.
is an established media relations pitcher whose media coverage has covered global support from Network News, National Syndicated Shows, International programming & News, Foreign Press, Internet Saturation in both Radio/TV Broadcast and Print media, serving clients all over North America and overseas.
coordinating/producing news coverage concepts for individual guests and special events on many radio and television shows to her credit including: Entertainment Tonight, Animal Planet, E! Entertainment Television, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CBS This Morning, TV Guide Television, Good Morning America, Home & Garden Channel, MTV, BET, Telemundo, and feature news pieces for locally FOX, KCAL, KTLA Morning News, Good Day L.A., KCOP, with national network affiliates – NBC, CBS ABC and Fox Networks in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, New York, Seattle, Las Vegas, CNN and many International programs, UHF and Cable news stations and programs.
and awards shows) to the Livestock Area with10 years of TV pitching for the State of California's 32nd Agricultural District, The Orange County Fair including the State's Sesquicentennial Celebration. Additionally she has promoted everything from National Radio Talk Show Host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger's appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show;" pitching/on-site coordinating and producing the KTLA Morning News Segment (in the middle of a 45 mph dust storm) for "The Bee Man" Dr. Norm Gary (clarinet playing bee charmer who covers his body with 100,000 killer bees) and 102.7 KIIS-FM's Wango Tango Concert Benefit for the Los Angeles Breast Cancer Alliance. Kumagai secured more than 250 local,regional, national and international media crews, journalists and photographers (with just 2 weeks advanced notice!) for the 14 back-to-back live acts featuring Gloria Estefan, Mariah Carey, Will Smith, Tom Jones, Hootie & The Blowfish and N'Sync which continues to be a milestone marker. No stranger behind the camera – as an established public relations pitcher, Kumagai has also worked on various TV and Film projects in production assistance for Adam Sandler/David Spade’s “Dickie Roberts – Child Star,” CBS’ “Ghost Whisperer” starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, and other series for Warner Bros./NBC, and Fox. Kumagai has also been in front of the camera in addition to several years as a freelance TV reporter, host, voice-over talent and radio personality in Southern California, with a recurring appearance in ABC's "Hotel" with James Brolin & Connie Selleca in addition to being a Guest Public Relations Spokesperson on over 700 Nat'l and Int'l Radio & TV broadcasts along with INTERNET interviews promoting special events in Southern California and in other various parts of the U.S. She is often quoted in the media, interviewed for her area of expertise and picked up as the key resource from entire press releases as the actual article for most media. Her experience covers the complete spectrum of media and communications. (STACEY KUMAGAI MEDIA MONSTER - IN THE NEWS - click links below)
Her bizarre sound bites have been heard (along with screams!) including: • Driving alongside 250 head of charging cattle on a city street in a historical cattle drive for mooing/stampeding sound bites. • Launched 100 feet in the air on the Rocket Launcher Reverse Bungee for KTLA News at 10. • Riding a Lawnmower at 50 mph in an arena. • Hula hooping sulfuric acid to demonstrate a PVC checkvalve's chemical compatibility on TV • Handling of LIVE crabs & announcing 20 heats of live crab racing • Being flung 150 ft. in the air at 60 mph in a Human Slingshot Ejection Seat on LIVE television for the very first 7 p.m. edition of KCAL-TV 9 News • Eating mealworm/beetle/cricket cuisine on LIVE television • Riding the "Skyscraper" Gravityworks ride (18 stories high, 4G forces, 70 mph) on KCBS-TV News LIVE • Riding elephants, transporting live ostrich, capturing escaped turkeys (in a dress) and French kissing parrots - all in the name of TV.
young college women in broadcasting in addition to producing numerous awards programs which provide scholarships for college students nationwide and served full-term as 1st Vice-President of Programming (then President Elect) on the Board of Directors for the Southern California Chapter of American Women In Radio & television, a sub-division of the National Association of Broadcasters. And she has been interviewed by more than a dozen students from high schools and colleges across the U.S. and abroad for their ‘final’ class essay and interview projects for those wanting to break into the field of public relations or entertainment.
broadcast music packages for WPNT-FM 100.3 (recorded in the historic "We Are The World" - Westlake Studio!) & WBBM-FM B-96 Chicago and produced first-time-ever music I.D.s in the history of Washington's Country Station 98.7 WMZQ-FM and WJZW-FM Smooth Jazz 105.9, packages enriched by the talents of Capitol Recording Artist Dave Koz and vocalist Joey Scarbury ("Greatest American Hero") and musicians who've toured with Elton John, Rod Stewart, SuperTramp and Christopher Cross. Kumagai continued to do talent work, doing voicemail recordings, videos for the medical companies, Disney, the IRS and did modeling work for brochures and magazines. She is a featured structure as "The Fallen Angel" in a theme park attraction at the Towa Nasu Resort's "Dark Castle Haunt" ride in Japan which was created by Technifex, the company that created the pirate ship at Treasure Island in Las Vegas. Kumagai joined Jeffrey Ganter in 1996 to launch What If...Inc., where together they landed a book writing deal with a CPA/Law Firm for "Doing Business in California" - a book on California State Law Taxation with a romantic comedy subplot for distribution to 400 worldwide offices in seven different languages. In addition, the team of Kumagai-Ganter propelled themselves as a 'corporation rehab team' -spearheading the business/marketing management of a 300,000 square foot motion picture studio lot ("Dante's Peak," "8 Heads In A Duffle Bag," "The Truman Show") and Internet website in Burbank, and teamed working events for Johnnie Walker's Ambassador of Scotland. She and Ganter co-founded The Rhythm Channel Foundation for Deaf Musicians and Performing Artists, a charity organization which enhances the arts for the deaf and hearing impaired. For four years, Ganter & Kumagai worked together writing scripts and treatments, pitched shows and worked numerous Media Monster events as well including Wango Tango and Actorfest and with vocalist, Vann Johnson, the first female artist to record a duet with Michael Bolton and add a voice to the instrumental stylings of Yanni. In 2003, Kumagai became a published poet in her own right, inducted in the International Library of Poetry’s publication, “The Honey of the Soul” with her poem, “Poetry Lives.” In addition to the above, Kumagai is currently working on several writing projects soon to be announced for publication and is featured in the 2004 Harper Collins book, “The Experts Speak” by Zach Weiner, where she talks about her start in this business and defines success in her own words. Kumagai continues to take on clientele who are diverse in thinking, passionate in being and wanting to make a difference through purposeful media relations, marketing and business development. |
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