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Meet Our Officers

If you are interested in becoming a chapter leader or serving on a committee, please contact our president or a board member.

President

Michelle Eccles

Public Relations Manager, Horace Mann

Anchor/Reporter, NPR Illinois

Treasurer
Hilary Patterson
Chief Marketing Officer
Prairie State Bank & Trust
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Past President
Brandy Renfro
Director of Communications
Illinois State Senate Democratic Caucus
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Co-VP Membership
Sarah Kinkade
Marketing and Communications Director
OSF Healthcare
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Co-VP Membership
Jamilla Wicks
Executive Director
Illinois State Museum Society

Co-VP Communications

Adriana Colindres

Press Secretary

Illinois State Treasurer’s Office

Co-VP Communications
Toni Judnitch

Eneterprise Comms Manager
Horace Mann

Co-VP Programs

Julie Kaiser

Marketing Comms Specialist

Memorial Health

Co-VP Programs

Michelle Ownbey

Publisher

Illinois Times

Webmaster
Christy Broccardo-Grove
Communications Director

Safe Electricity, U of I Extension
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Jobs Chair

Jenny Rich

Freelance Communications

Secretary

Blake Wood

Director of Media Strategy

University of Illinois Springfield

Scholarship Chair
Priyanka Deo

Director of Student Media, Faculty

University of Illinois Springfield
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Historian

Nancy Severa Zimmers
Retired Director of Public Affairs
SIU School of Medicine
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