Officers

These are the 2012-2013 Chapter Officers. Feel free to contact us with any questions!

President

Heather Harder, hharder@elon.edu

Year: Junior

Career Goal: Media/Presentation Trainer

Position Description: As the PRSSA President, I oversee the Executive Board and evaluate overall goals and strategy for the organization. I got to attend the National PRSSA Leadership Rally in Arizona during the summer. This was a great opportunity to start planning for the year ahead and connect with PRSSA Chapters across the nation.

 I work closely with the Vice President to plan and lead Executive Board meetings, where the officers discuss upcoming events and new opportunities for the Chapter. A lot of my role involves responding to emails from various students interested in joining, as well as organizations that either need PR help or have PR events to offer members.
This year there were a lot of changes for Elon PRSSA, which allowed our Chapter to grow in membership and involvement with public relations on campus. I have loved serving the Chapter this year and look forward to future PRSSA opportunities.

Vice President

Trey Newstedt, gnewstedt@elon.edu

Year: Senior

Career Goal: Sports Public Relations or Advertising

Position Description: As Vice President I have been involved with a lot of things within PRSSA. I helped plan executive board meetings with the President. I also organized an agency visit over winter term. I was involved in brainstorming different ideas for chapter events. I also worked with professors to organize events. I assisted anyone on exec that needed help. Since I was the treasurer my sophomore year, I was able to help Alyssa with a lot of the budget this year. I helped people wherever I was needed.

Public Relations Director 

Lauren Ludlow, lludlow@elon.edu

Year: Senior

Career Goal: Fashion Public Relations Professional

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Bill Powers, wpowers@elon.edu

Year: Senior

Secretary

Olivia Zoufaly, ozoufaly@elon.edu

Year: Junior

Career Goal: PR director at a major fashion magazine

Position Description: Secretary postion takes detailed, organized notes at every meeting. Email the notes to each member and advisor. The secretary will send out monthly and weekly reminders to the chapter. Create chapter announcements sheets for chapter meetings. Take attendance for the chapter and assist with putting together executive binders.

 

Treasurer

Alyssa Baxter, abaxter4@elon.edu

Year: Sophomore

Career Goal: Design & Communications Business owner

Position Description:

Being part of PRSSA exec is fantastic, and you should be really excited about this coming year. As treasurer, your main duties involve managing funds for the chapter and it requires a lot of organization and patience.

You have two funds to manage—the SGA fund and the PRSSA fund. My advice is to use up the SGA fund for all of the expenses first to fully utilize the budget that we proposed the previous year. Dealing with check requests and petty cash requests with both the SGA office and accounting office are simple and very easy to file.

The part where you have to be the most organized is with the dues. Handling such a large amount of money can be pretty intimidating, as it was for me, but if you’re organized and stay on top of things, it will go smoothly.

Chapter Historian

Puja Prakash, pprakash@elon.edu

Year: Sophomore

Career Goal: Segment producer for a major fashion magazine, PR practitioner for client based offices

Position Description: As Historian your main duty is to reach as many different platforms as possible, whether that be editing and updating this blog, using social media, or emailing fellow members. It is very important to be organized as networking and social media is integral with reaching as many people as possible.

Taking photos at the meetings and sharing them through the blog and website is another part of the position, as well as speaking to members about getting involved and furthering their engagement through the blog, website, or social media outlets.