Key Team

Since founding BazanPR in 1994, Jackie Bazan-Ross has devoted her energies to increasing the industry’s awareness of the underserved African-American market. She brings more than 17 years of PR and marketing experience to clients in film, television, publishing and corporate public relations. Her expertise as well as her keen insights, contacts, and collaborative approach with clients have earned her a reputation as a respected leader in the entertainment industry.

Evelyn Santana has been a key figure in the growth and success of BazanPR since the company's inception.  In addition to managing day-to-day business affairs for the firm, Evelyn oversees national and regional publicity campaigns for film and television events.  She has drawn on her extensive entertainment PR experience to spearhead high-profile campaigns for films including Inside Man, Ray, Scary Movie I, II and III, Tupac Resurrection, 4 Little Girls, Spy Kids I and II and The Others.

Joy Huang handles specialty projects for BazanPR.  A production executive with over 20 years experience in film, theater, television and publishing, her television credits include documentaries for MTV, HBO, and Oxygen Media, where she produced the daily live show "Pure Oxygen" and is developing and executive producing "All-Access Oxygen."   She previously served as chief operating officer of Urbanworld Films and the executive producer of the Urbanworld Film Festival, the premiere showcase for minority filmmakers.  Under her leadership, Urbanworld became the preeminent destination for African-American, Latino and Asian filmmakers.  In 2002, she was featured in VIBE magazine as one of the entertainment executives who "run the industry."  In 1999, Back Stage featured Joy in their March cover story as one of New York's hottest theater producers.

Carol Jones, who handles film and DVD campaigns as well as corporate events for BazanPR, has had a long, distinguished career in film publicity, generating high-profile media coverage to help her movies set box-office records.  Prior to joining BazanPR in 2001, Carol was a senior publicist for Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture Group, where she managed broadcast and print media relations with an emphasis on urban press.  She worked on the publicity campaigns for such hits as Titanic, Godfather II, Forrest Gump, Star Trek, the Indiana Jones trilogy, An Officer and a Gentleman, The Untouchables, Top Gun, Mission Impossible and Beverly Hills Cop 1-3.  She also served as director of corporate communications for Paramount Communications, then the parent company of Paramount Pictures.

Iman Criner handles press screenings and manages radio and online publicity as well as minority media. A recent graduate of the University of Rochester where she majored in English with a concentration in communications and African-American Studies, Iman joined the Bazan team in 2006.