BIO

Working to Share Our Stories

Lydia Cole is a highly experienced communication professional with a thirty year background spanning several disciplines, including broadcast and cable television and corporate communications. Highlights of Cole's successful career include working with a Fortune 500 company, Lockheed Martin and spending eleven years on the leadership team that propelled BET to national success as the first Black company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Cole earned an undergraduate degree in television and film production from Howard University and a master's degree in public relations and corporate communications from Georgetown University.

While working as a consultant for organizations and businesses supporting digital communications, social media, and strategic communications planning, Cole wrote a memoir, You Must Be A Jones.