Cyone Batiste joined the Championship Hosting Division of Atlanta Sports Council in 2016, where she is working a three-year span of major sporting events including the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship, Super Bowl LIII and the 2020 NCAA Men’s Final Four. In her current role, she’s responsible for digital and social communication, including website management, managing the organization’s brand standards and promoting community engagement efforts.  During Super Bowl LIII, Cyone led the Social Media Command Center, the social media agency relationship and a volunteer team of 75 to ensure engaging, creative content, rapid fan response and thoughtful crisis management immediately across all social media platforms for the Atlanta Super Bowl Host Committee accounts and website as well as the NFL’s Super Bowl channels.

 

Prior to joining the Championship Hosting Division, Batiste served as the manager of marketing and communications for the 2016 and 2017 NCAA Men’s Final Four in Houston and Phoenix respectively. Through her years with the Final Four, Batiste organized the largest statewide literacy program in Final Four history, securing 34,000 students at more than 400 schools across the state of Arizona to participate in a March Madness bracket-like challenge.

 

Batiste is a graduate of Louisiana State University (LSU) and currently resides in Atlanta, Ga.