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PRSA, the nation’s leading professional organization serving the communications community, announced today that New York Times bestselling author and science writer David Epstein will be a keynote speaker at ICON 2023, being held Oct. 15-17 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

PRSSA announced today that The University of Florida was named the winner of the 2023 Bateman Case Study Competition. Earning second place was The University of Colorado Boulder -- The Daily He(a)rd, followed by Louisiana State University in the third-place spot.

PRSA announced today that Michele Norris will be a keynote speaker at ICON 2023, being held Oct. 15-17 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

PRSSA announced the election of its 2023-2024 National Committee. Sankalp Sharma was elected as National President and will lead the group of volunteer student committee members beginning their one-year term on June 1.

PRSSA today announced it will be establishing new Chapters at Nevada State College (NSC) and Niagara University (NU).

Michelle Egan, APR, Fellow PRSA, PRSA 2023 Chair and Chief Communications Officer for Alyeska Pipeline Service, has been named to PRNEWS’ 2023 class of Top Women in PR. She was honored in the Industry Champion category, which celebrates women “who’ve had an exceptional impact on the direction and advancement of the P.R. and communications industry beyond their impact at their own companies.”

Applications will be accepted for the 2024 PRSA Board of Directors beginning on Monday, April 3, and will be accepted through Friday, May 12.

PRSA today announced the finalists for the 2023 Bronze and Silver Anvil Awards, which recognize and honor the very best communications programs planned and executed each year.

PRSA has been recognized with a 2023 Gold Trendy Award for its 75th anniversary publication, “75 Years of Impact and Influence: People, Places and Moments in Public Relations History.”

PRSSA today announced it will be establishing a new Chapter at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst.

The PRSA Foundation announced today it is expanding its partnership with Mission North and bringing in three additional partner agencies, AGEAN Public Relations, LaunchSquad, and Method Communications, to create fellowships that will focus on public relations/communications college students of color.

PRSA has named Errol Cockfield and Juan-Carlos Molleda as Senior Counsel to the 2023 Board of Directors.

The PRSA Board of Directors has adopted a new three-year Strategic Plan, beginning in 2023, which provides a roadmap for organizational growth, leadership and capabilities. The plan came together with learnings from member interviews, surveys, focus groups and sessions with non-member industry leaders, and is centered around three pillars:

PRSA is excited to share its 2022 Year in Review.

PRSA has named Patricia “Reace” Alvarenga Smith, APR, to its Board of Directors to represent the Southwest District in 2023.

PRSA has announced it is changing the name of its Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Committee to the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Committee.

PRSA and PRSA Educators Academy presented Scott C. Pansky, Co-Founder at Allison+Partners and Co-Lead of the agency’s Purpose Center of Excellence, with the 2022 PRSA David Ferguson Award during an awards ceremony at PRSA’s ICON 2022, taking place in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

PRSA today announced the newly elected members of the 2023 Board of Directors. The delegates of the 2022 Leadership Assembly elected Joseph Abreu, APR, as Chair-elect and eight members to serve in Officer and Director positions beginning January 1, 2023. The Board is comprised of 17 voting members.

PRSSA today announced it will be establishing a new Chapter at the University of Missouri in the Missouri School of Journalism.