Corporate Relations Coordinator
University of Michigan
College of Engineering

Kristen Stout joined the Corporate Relations staff at the College of Engineering in July 2007. She previously worked in marketing for the Executive Education Center at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, where she was responsible for marketing a portfolio of management and leadership courses to corporate executives. She also has more than 10 years of experience in marketing communications and PR within the automotive industry, first at Nissan R&D, where she worked in the technical planning and product and market strategy offices, and later at GE Plastics, where she was a PR specialist at GE's automotive regional office in Southfield, MI. She also worked as a project director at a Cincinnati market research firm that specialized in auto dealership customer satisfaction research.  Kristen has a B.A. in English with a French minor from the University of Michigan.