Sierra begins new job at AMA

Rod Sierra, who was most recently Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Johnson Publishing Company, has started a new job this month as Chief Communications and Marketing Officer and Sr Vice President of the American Medical Association (AMA).

Rod’s media background is in radio.  He spent the first 6 years of his journalism career at ABC Radio News, moving on to WGN Radio in Chicago, where he was a reporter, anchor and assignment editor.After 8 years at WGN, he became Deputy Mayoral Press Secretary for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Rod held several high-ranking management communications and public affairs roles in energy companies prior to joining Johnson Publishing, publishers of Ebony and Jet magazines.