Ellen Langas Campbell
President

With more than 20 years of experience in the marketing communications industry, Ellen has successfully developed and managed public relations, advertising, media training, sales and marketing campaigns for national and regional clients.

Prior to founding NouSoma Communications in 1995, Ellen was an officer of billion-dollar QVC, Inc. where she originated the Public Relations Department and gained national visibility as a popular on-air host and consumer spokesperson.

Ellen received her MBA from the Katz School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh (1980), and her Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Robert Morris University (1979), summa cum laude. While at Robert Morris, she led the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Team to capture the SIFE national championship.

Ellen is the author of the GIRLS KNOW HOW® series of books for young girls. In 1999, she was named one of Philadelphia’s Women of Distinction and a Freedom Valley Girl Scout Council Women of Achievement Honoree. She also received an Excellence Award from Working Woman Magazine. In 1998, Ellen was named one of Pennsylvania's Best 50 Women in Business and one of the Philadelphia business area's Outstanding 40 Under 40. As Mrs. Pennsylvania 1994, Ellen represented Pennsylvania women, speaking on family and women's issues statewide, and she has spoken nationally at numerous consumer and business events. In 2000, she began teaching marketing and public relations for the Wharton Small Business Development Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Active in her community, Ellen volunteers and provides pro-bono work for organizations including Students in Free Enterprise, Special Olympics, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Freedom Valley Girl Scout Council, Camphill Special School, Mommy’s Light Lives on Fund...and of course, her two daughters’ classrooms!

Ellen is an accomplished commercial actress and voice-over artist, and has recorded more than 100 commercials, videos, infomercials and radio spots during her career. Currently, she is featured in a nationally televised commercial promoting Pennsylvania Tourism. A native of Pittsburgh, she currently lives in the Philadelphia suburbs.
 

Dede Crough
Marketing Director

Dede joined NouSoma Communications in January 1996 and was named Marketing Director a year later. She works with all accounts, assisting in planning, writing copy, editing, layout and press contact.

Having grown up in the Philadelphia area, she headed to Boston after graduating cum laude in 1985 from Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont) with a B.A. in English. After a short stint with Cone Communications, Inc., a Boston PR firm, Dede accepted a position with Chamber Theatre Productions, Inc., a national repertory theatre company. Her responsibilities there included box office management, tour planning, training and advertising.

Tired of driving on the Garden State Parkway, Dede returned to Pennsylvania in 1991 and spent several years at Horsin’Around, Inc., a screenprinting/embroidery/ad specialties company where she managed the wholesale division, developed new designs, produced ad and catalog copy and supervised all major retail accounts.

A veteran comedy improv performer, she serves in a volunteer capacity as Marketing Associate with City Theater Company of Wilmington, Delaware, where she takes to the stage every summer. Other volunteer experience includes Reins of Life therapeutic horseback riding, WXPN 88.5 non-commercial radio in Philadelphia, and Help the Animals. Dede lives in rural Chester County, PA, with three rescued dogs. She competes with one of them in flyball (a canine relay race) and is studying dog behavior and training methods.