Ronnie Hodgkinson

Ronnie Hodgkinson is a communication studies student at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. She has worked full time at Starbucks for the past two and a half years. She enjoys competing her horses when she's not at work or school.

Ronnie started using social media as a marketing tool while still in high school by helping market Stable Solutions, a small equestrian gift company. She has run social media campaigns for the Chagrin Falls Starbucks store, successfully promoting new drinks and specials to customers via Twitter. She increased the Twitter following by twenty five times in two weeks. She increased store sales through Twitter. By sending out daily specials and recommendations to followers the store's local following increased daily.

She is eager to gain more social media, marketing, and communications experience. She hopes to continue her education on after undergrad into either Law school or into the marketing field.