RLF welcomes Adam Bowers back to the team as a communications manager. Adam joins RLF from Bliss Integrated Communication, a New York City-based public relations agency specializing in business-to-business communications. Prior to joining Bliss, Adam worked as an intern and a communications specialist here at RLF. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication, with an emphasis in public relations.
Tell us a little about your work experience and what attracted you to RLF.
After I graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013, my soon-to-be wife wanted to move to New York City to try our hand at life in the big city. While we were there, we lived in the Upper East Side, and I worked at a B2B PR firm where I got quite a bit of media relations experience working on accounts in the financial and professional services spaces.
When a change in my wife’s job brought us back to NC, I reached out to RLF to see if there were any openings. Having worked here before, I knew what I was getting myself into – a fast-paced work environment with some of the best and brightest marketing professionals in the Triad. How could I not come back? (Especially with the well-stocked fridge full of Coca-Cola products!)
What’s your favorite way to spend your free time?
My wife and I recently got a soft-coated wheaten terrier puppy named Baloo, so he has started to consume most of my free time (beginning at 6:00 every morning when he starts whining to go outside). But he’s great!
When I’m not chasing Baloo around, I love playing disc golf, going to the movies and reading.
What was the last book you read?
I recently finished Half Magic by Edward Eager. It’s a children’s book that I read way back in fifth grade about four kids who find a magic coin that grants half of what they wish for. During the summer, I try to revisit a book or two from childhood to allow myself to feel like a kid on summer vacation with nothing to do again. My nostalgia levels always seem to run high in the summer months.
If you had a theme song, what would it be?
Given how much time I’ve been spending lately chasing my dog around the house, I’d have to go with “Who Let the Dogs Out?” by the Baha Men. In addition to being relevant to my life right now, I’m also a huge fan of late 90s and early 2000s pop music, so this has got to be the perfect fit. (Honorable mention: Gettin’ Jiggy With It).
If you could have dinner with one person, dead or alive, who would it be?
C.S. Lewis. Hands down. I read The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe for the first time when I was ten, and I’ve re-read every book in the Chronicles of Narnia probably fifteen times since then. I’d love to pick his brain and try to understand how he managed to craft a series of books that kids love, but that also get better the older the reader gets.