The ITEN WIRED Team
Sena Maddison
Sena is currently the Communications Director for FloridaWest, responsible for the messaging and maintaining cooperative relationships with elected officials, media and community representatives and business leaders. Along with creating marketing and promotional materials, Sena develops long-term communication strategies to increase visibility and provide information to stakeholders and the public.
Since she started as a radio announcer at the age of 15, Sena has had many different roles in the media as an on-air personality, advertising copywriter, radio and television producer, journalist and magazine editor. Moving to Pensacola in 2007, she held the position of Executive Producer at News Radio 1620 from sign on until she joined the Sheriff David Morgan’s staff when he took office in January 2009. At the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, Sena served as the as a Public Relations Coordinator and Protocol Officer for four years and then took on the role of Public Information Officer in 2013. For her service, she was awarded the ECSO Medal of Commendation for her work with the media during the 2009 Billings Double Homicide Investigation as well as a Medal of Meritorious Service for media and community relations.
Sena earned a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in Education from the University of South Alabama in 1996, and she spent several years in the Mobile County Public School system as a Language Arts teacher. She is also a graduate of the Protocol School of Washington. Sena serves on the executive board of FavorHouse and is a graduate of the Leadership Pensacola Class of 2011. In 2019, Sena served on Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s Transition Team, researching Transparency, authoring a Mayoral Transition Report on transparency, public information and information accessibility for the City of Pensacola.
