Digital Marketing Instructors

Mary Zimnik

Mary Zimnik is a creative communications expert and educator whose career spans three decades and multiple disciplines. As a T-shaped professional, Mary brings both breadth and depth across teaching, instructional strategy, writing, design, and marketing-communications.

Her communications work includes media relations, brand development, and strategic marketing, with clients ranging from start-ups to established institutions. Since 2004, Mary has taught for Emory University’s Continuing Education. While teaching at Emory and also Southern Methodist University, Mary developed 85 courses, 31 workshops, and 14 programs in continuing education. Since 2012, she has specialized in instructional design and e-learning, including Emory’s Digital Marketing: Building and Launching Better Multichannel Campaigns Certificate program online.

Before her academic career, Mary thrived in the film industry as a location agent for university campuses. She negotiated landmark contracts and developed a widely adopted location contract, twice securing the highest fees in university filming history (ref: New York Times). Her portfolio spans 50 feature films and commercial projects, including A Season in Purgatory, Scream 2, and Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius.

A digital nomad at heart, Mary balances her creative roles while traveling, teaching, writing, designing, and capturing photography. In her free time, she explores art forms and develops creative writing projects that blend with her visual storytelling.

For more detail on Mary’s career, please visit her portfolio: https://studiomz.myportfolio.com