Chanel Pettaway

Chanel Rae Pettaway, for years has been known as The Red Carpet Hero, and now The Culture Princess, is the cofounder of The Legion Media Group, a New York City based full service PR and Branding agency that specializes in creating unique, creative, thorough and multifaceted campaigns. Chanel is a PR Specialist for top brands across multiple genres including music, fashion, and technology. She has worked with corporations like WWE, Jimmy Jazz, Hot97, along with various jocks independently: Peter Rosenberg, Drewski and more, producer Salaam Remi, Legacy recording artists Cam'Ron/Jim Jones/ Dipset, Emerging artists like Zeddy Will, Albee Al, Sha EK, Bandman Rill, and more. She is the co-host of a new podcast for the millennial mom “Our First Time; AMommyCast” which has been mentioned on Hot97, Bossip, VIBE magazine and more. She also is a writer for Mirren (an advertising consulting firm). Chanel was a recipient of the Essence of a Woman award from the Queens chapter of the NAACP (March, 2012) and named top 45 publicists you should hire (May 2014) by Praverb, featured in Urban Magazine’s Executive Power (March 2019) as well as AllHipHop’s Powerful Women (March 2019), Black Enterprise (March 2020) for the brand alignment between Dipset, The NBA, and The Bleacher Report. Bossip named Chanel as one of the The Baddest Publicist Baes In The Game in 2021 & 2022. She was part of Sway’s list of 15 Black Women Making Waves in Our Culture (FEB 2024), and has now been added to XXL’s Awards Board (Feb 2025). Her mission is simply to “save brands.”