Darryl Ewing began his communications career as a reporter with The Associated Press in Dallas before “crossing over to the dark side” – as his media friends often say – to a career in agency public relations and corporate communications. Since that time, he has worked with the largest public relations agency in Dallas and a regional independent agency, servicing accounts in health care, banking, financial services and nonprofits. On the corporate side, Darryl has worked with a number of senior executives in his communications role at Bank of America, Motorola and Reliant Energy. He also has taught reporting and editing as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. He currently is an instructional assistant professor at the University of Houston. Darryl has served on the board of various educational and nonprofit organizations, including Austin Partners in Education and AIDS Services of Dallas. He completed the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas’ Blueprint for Leadership program in 1998.  He has conducted workshops on small business communication at Houston’s Leisure Learning, and he has been a contributor on small business communication with KEYE-TV in Austin and a freelance writer for the Austin Business Journal. Darryl received his bachelor’s degree in newspaper journalism from the University of Texas and his master’s degree in journalism and political science from the Ohio State University, where he was a graduate school fellow and inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha, the journalism honors society.