Visit Phoenix
Monica Lerch is an experienced professional in event management and marketing, currently serving as the Membership Experience & Events Manager at Visit Phoenix since August 2022. Prior roles include General Manager at Pages: A Bookstore, Event Manager at Christina Baxter Weddings, and Event Coordinator & Bookseller at Buxton Books. Additionally, Monica has held positions such as Events & Marketing Manager at Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe and Assistant Wedding Coordinator at Grit & Grace. Earlier experience includes Lead Coordinator at Etc. Coordinators and Sales and Marketing Manager at Newseum, as well as internships in tourism and visitor services. Monica Lerch graduated from George Mason University in 2013 with a Bachelor's degree in Tourism and Events Management.
Visit Phoenix
Visit Phoenix is a non-profit organization that promotes the Greater Phoenix community to a global audience of travelers and books conventions into the Phoenix Convention Center and area hotels and resorts. Visit Phoenix cultivates and maintains relationships with convention and meeting planners, journalists and influencers, travel agents and tour operators. We produce marketing and brand campaigns promoting leisure travel and meetings, coordinate site visits, conduct media tours and maintain the official tourism website for Greater Phoenix. In partnership with our more than 1,000 member businesses, Visit Phoenix brings business to Greater Phoenix that would not otherwise come—from leisure visitors to group meetings to popular sports events. Through this, Greater Phoenix can compete in today’s globalized, networked world for its share of the world’s consumers, businesses, investment, capital, respect, and attention.