Board Applications Close Soon; PRSA Announces 2023 Anvil Award Finalists

Applications for the 2024 Board of Directors are due on May 12.

PRSA is seeking candidates to fill three officer positions, as well as director positions for five Districts and one Director-At-Large position.

Board members meet and closely collaborate with colleagues on the local, regional and national levels, supporting efforts to champion PRSA and amplifying our value with members. Their duties and responsibilities include fiscal oversight, helping to guide and oversee PRSA’s strategic vision and goals, enhancing membership growth and serving as a representative of the organization, among many other projects and programs.

Click here to apply.

PRSA Announces 2023 Anvil Award Finalists

PRSA has unveiled the short list for the 2023 Anvil Awards, which recognize and honor the best communications programs planned and executed each year.

In total, PRSA received entries across 74 categories, including submissions from leading brands, agencies, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and universities. The 118 finalists were from agencies including Edelman, FleishmanHillard, Ketchum, Ruder Finn and Padilla, and such iconic brands as AT&T, H&R Block, Honeywell, L.L. Bean and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 

This year’s ceremony, which will include the presentation of both the Silver Anvil and Bronze Anvil Awards as well as the “Best of” Silver Anvil Award, takes place on June 8 at Edison Ballroom in New York City’s Theater District.

For over 75 years, the Anvil Awards have been considered the benchmark of high performance in public relations. Silver Anvil Awards celebrate the year’s best strategic PR campaigns and outstanding organizational excellence. Bronze Anvil Awards recognize outstanding PR tactics that contribute to the success of overall programs or campaigns.

Please visit this link to RSVP for the ceremony and to view the complete list of finalists.

PRSSA Welcomes 2 New Chapters 

PRSSA will establish new Chapters at Nevada State College and Niagara University. 

Seseer Mou-Danha, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication, will serve as faculty adviser at Nevada State, and Joseph Sirianni, associate professor of communications and media studies, will hold the same role at Niagara University.

“I look forward to the events, conferences, competitions, access to experts and practitioners in the field, internships and scholarships — to mention a few — that students at Nevada State will have access to,” said Mou-Danha. “I am especially glad that our students, who are future PR professionals, will be even better equipped to enter the industry.” 

“I’m very excited to have a PRSSA chapter at Niagara,” Sirianni said. “Prior to this, our students established a public relations club, which served them well, but being part of something bigger and more prestigious will be much more beneficial to them.”

PRSSA is represented globally on nearly 380 campuses, including in the United States, Argentina, Colombia, Peru and Puerto Rico.

Cal State Sacramento’s Sankalp Sharma to Serve as PRSSA President

PRSSA has elected its 2023-2024 National Committee.

Sankalp Sharma will serve as national president and will lead the group of student committee members beginning their one-year term on June 1.

“PRSSA students constantly impress me with their dedication to and passion for public relations as a field of study,” said Michelle Egan, APR, Fellow PRSA, 2023 PRSA chair. “I look forward to working closely with them as we support their journey to becoming active PRSA members and new professionals in the communications community.”

Sankalp, a junior, has been in PRSSA from his very first week of college and served in several leadership roles for his Chapter.

PRSA Offering Modern Digital Communications Certificate Program 

PRSA is presenting a Modern Digital Communications Certificate Program, focusing on social and digital media as the intersection of art and science for senior-level communicators.

Designed as a live, online course of six modules, this program launches on May 24 and runs through June 28, airing each consecutive Wednesday from 3-4:30 p.m. ET.

Developed and led by Michael J. Lamp, chief digital and social officer at HUNTER PR, the program will also feature guest speakers who are experts in various aspects of the week’s topic.

Learn more at prsa.org/pd.