Professional/Volunteer Affiliations
• Kansas City Writer’s Group (1997 – present)
• PTA Co-president, Broken Arrow PTA, Shawnee, KS (1996 – 1997)
• Classroom and special education volunteer aide at Broken Arrow Elementary School; Cultural Arts committee chairperson; volunteer aide in enhanced learning class at Neiman School; volunteer at Wonderscope Children’s Museum in Shawnee, KS; leader of Girl Scout Troop #199; board member
for Kansas City Children’s Chorus; board member of Shawnee Mission Area Gifted parents’ group.
(1991 – 1998)
• Editor of monthly newsletter for Shawnee Mission Area Gifted parents’ group (1997–1999)
• Broken Arrow Elementary School (Shawnee, KS)—Blue Ribbon application editing; the Department of Education named Broken Arrow a Blue Ribbon School for 1997/98 (1996)
• Russell Child Development Center (Garden City, KS)—wrote audiovisual script for annual community
fundraising event (1995)
• International Association of Business Communicators (IABC/LA)—served on seminar planning committee; judged preliminaries for section of 1985 Gold Quill Awards (1984)
• Women in Communications, Inc. (WICI/LA)—executive vice president, and organized and directed
40-member volunteer staff to produce four-day Far West Regional Meeting that drew 250 registrants, featured 85 speakers and 30 sessions (1983)