Our Team

Burke Allen brings three decades of media, marketing, public relations and entertainment industry experience to our clients.  His broad background includes successful stints as a radio and TV host, writer, top-rated morning show personality, radio station owner and programmer, broadcast consultant and media trainer/educator prior to launching Allen Media Strategies in 2003. The firm works with national entertainers, New York Times best-selling authors, television and radio personalities and political leaders on their individual strategic goals.

Burke’s extensive roster of award winning authors and speakers have landed exposure on every major television and radio network and cable outlet, and hundreds of leading print and online outlets.  His extensive background in the music industry includes roles as a national booking agent, club owner, concert promoter and artist manager, overseeing dozens of successful live concert events with national headliner talent from small club shows to festivals for over 50,000 people.

The author of Becoming Semi Famous, Burke is a regular contributor to various industry publications and was spotlighted in a recent cover story for INSIGHTS magazine. A Billboard Magazine award winner, Burke is also a sought after public speaker on media and marketing and P.R. strategy, including online audio, video and text initiatives.
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Cristi Babin-Adkins, RN Cht has over 18 years of sales and marketing experience in the medical and personal development field. Cristi has been a national public speaker and is called upon from time to time as a medical news expert  for various television and radio outlets. Her experience as a Registered Nurse and her frequent appearances (on-stage as well as on-the-air) as a health and nutrition expert has been particularly helpful to our author and entertainer clients.

Cristi has appeared on with on THE DAILY SHOW WITH JOHN STEWART, SEAN HANNITY, NEIL CAVUTO, HARDBALL WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS, SIRUS/XM, THE JIM BOHANNON SHOW and dozens of other national and local television and radio outlets.

She has released her own workbook and audio series called FAT LOSS FOREVER.
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Will Bower has 15 years experience working in the worlds of media and entertainment. He graduated from Kenyon College in 1994 with a B.A. in theatre. From 1994-1995, Will was a promotions agent for Agence Magnitude in Paris (France). From 1996-1998, he worked as a production assistant for the Sydney Austrlian-based PR & advertising company, KOAN.

From 1999-2001, Will was an assistant talent agent at Midwest Talent Agency in Los Angeles, CA. From 2002-2008, he was an intellectual property research analyst for Thomson Reuters. In 2008, he was the spokesperson for a advocacy group focused on the need for election reform and made multiple major on-air television and radio appearances. Now, in 2009,

Will is happy to be a media booking specialist for Allen Media Strategies.
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Anita Crane knows what writers, editors and producers want – because she is one. She has produced talk radio and network TV; she’s former editor of a national magazine; and she continues writing articles ranging from investigative journalism toin-depth interviews. Her interviews include Kirk Cameron about his role in Fireproof; Eduardo Verastegui on his human rights work and his feature film Bella; Gary Sinise about his faith in God and honoring U.S. military personnel; and Oscar-winning filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal onThe Hurt Locker. Her article on Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally was chosen for the Drudge Report. Anita learned to write at Christendom College, where she earned a B.A. in theology in 1993. She enjoys representing the unique and newsworthy clients of Allen Media Strategies as a booking specialist.
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Gary Starikoff has more than 20 years experience in electronic and print media. He’s been on the air in big cities like Phoenix and Washington, DC, and small ones like Winchester, Va.

Most recently, he was senior producer and on-air reporter for XM Satellite Radio’s POTUS ’08, the nation’s first radio station devoted solely to the presidential election.

Gary has a B.A. in political science from Arizona State and an M.A. in political management from George Washington University.
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