Aurrice Duke has more than 15 years of consumer and business-to-business public relations experience gained through working with a variety of Fortune 500 companies. As an account director and manager of the company's Riverhead office, Duke provides expertise in strategic planning, media relations, special events, community relations, and cross-marketing programs for clients in the public and private sectors.

She has created unique campaigns that drive media coverage and sales for clients in the following sectors: real estate (The Rouse Company), consumer products (Cottonelle, Hanes, Parker, Waterman, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan) technology (Microsoft), health care (Benadryl, Cipro, Oxford Health Plans), nonprofit (Rainforest Alliance), and cause-related marketing (Glamour/Hanes Breast Cancer Awareness campaign, Avon’s Breast Cancer Crusade). She honed writing skills on the editorial side of several Conde Nast Publications, including Vogue and Glamour magazines, and actively contributes on business and real estate for a regional New York newspaper.

A native Midwesterner, she graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science degree in business and a minor in international finance. She traded Minnesota wheat fields for Manhattan’s concrete pastures before relocating to the East End full time in 2003.