She earned a BA from McGill University, an MA

from the University of Southern California’s

Annenberg School of Communications (with

additional coursework at the School of International

Relations and the Marshall Graduate School of

Business), an education diploma from UCLA and

a certificate in graphic design from Hong Kong

Polytechnic.

Joan was halfway through an MSW from California

State University LA and was already counseling

clients when she decided to go corporate and

apply her guidance skills to agency searches.

She uses the same counseling approach today -

which is why some of her clients call her

The PR Shrink.

During the pre-digital era she freelanced for

The Wall Street Journal (Asia), The South China

Morning Post, The Los Angeles Times, Excerpta

Medica, The LA Weekly, Entrepreneur, and Newsday.

Concurrent with the Weizmann Institute, she was a

regular contributor to Reuters Health Web site for

doctors.

Agency Select’s core staff assists in the company’s

day-to-day operations while Weinberg personally

manages all accounts.

Joan’s gift for making agency matches that “stick”

became apparent when she managed a Los Angeles

law firm. The HR hires she made 25 years ago still

work there today.

Starting in her late teens, she worked for The New Yorker’s

food advertising department. Her career spans director of

marketing at the Sydney Australia Filmmakers Cooperative

and corporate thinker at Citibank Hong Kong to Young &

Rubicam’s Hong Kong Tourist Association account and

the Weizmann Institute of Science where she interviewed

rocket scientists, biochemists and neurobiologists and

according to her job dictate, made “the science sing.”