Our Team

Smart. Funny. Fast.

That’s what you get when you team up with Roger Kerson, creative director at RK Communications. A veteran media strategist, Roger leads concept, scriptwriting and production for cable, TV and online advertising for our clients. He has worked on high-profile organizing, bargaining, and public policy campaigns for the AFL-CIO, the United Auto Workers, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Wildlife Federation and other labor, environmental and non-profit organizations.

Read more: Roger Kerson, creative director

Deepika has more than 20 years of experience providing visual communications for non-profit organizations. She has a unique ability to capture – quickly and accurately – strategic objectives, presenting a range of visual options to drive home key messages.

Read more: Deepika Mehta, designer

Chris Savage was an industrial R&D chemist for over 30 years before retiring in 2020 to pursue a freelance career in communications. In 2008, while still working as a chemist, he started Eclectablog.com, a progressive news and opinion site focused largely on Michigan politics. He has written extensively about education, labor, Emergency Managers, and the corporatists' efforts to steal our tax dollars for their own personal profit. His writing about Detroit's so-called Education Achievement Authority contributed to it being disbanded after shortchanging the students, parents, and educators in Detroit.

Read more: Chris Savage, Digital Strategy

Carissa has been putting her innovative ideas to work for more than 20 years to help labor unions and nonprofit organizations win campaigns, strengthen their brands, and raise their visibility.

She coordinated marketing, logistics, technology support and media relations communications strategies supporting the launch of President Obama’s “Making Home Affordable” program in Chicago. This large-scale, collaborative effort that helped hundreds of homeowners apply for loan modifications through a program to prevent home foreclosures.

Read more: Carissa Poroko, marketing and media relations

Scott is an award-winning videographer who can shoot, edit, direct and produce compelling video projects from concept to completion. For more than a decade, Scott worked as a senior producer at Michigan Media, the University of Michigan’s in-house production facility.

His recent credits include camera, sound and editing on “Never a Bystander,’ a documentary about holocaust survivor Irene Butter.

Read more: Scott Mann, videographer

Sage Media, with decades of experience, is one of the nation’s leading media buying firms for progressive causes and candidates. Sage’s team of media experts, partnering with RK Communications, will deliver your message with smart, actionable layered media strategies that reach and persuade your target audience, whether they are at home or on the move. Using the latest in targeting technology and data analysis, we’ll tell your story at the right time, at the right price and on the right platform.

This typically includes cable, digital, streaming, mobile and print. But if your needs are atypical – like reaching airborne visitors to Iowa during a crucial presidential caucus – we can do that, too.