Samantha Elder is an experienced professional in building brands through strategic marketing, initiatives and partnerships, and communications and public relations. Samantha graduated from Wright State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with an emphasis on communications and continued her education by graduating from Indiana University, Bloomington with a Master of Public Affairs specializing in management.

In 2020, Samantha was honored as one of Dayton Business Journal’s Forty under 40 recipients and graduated from the Dayton Chamber of Commerce’s EMPOWER leadership cohort. In 2021, she continued her leadership journey by graduating from the Chamber’s Leadership Dayton class and was also named Wright State University’s “Graduate of the Last Decade.”