Monday, August 28, 2006

KC to host national AWC conference

U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer of California; Karen Elliott House, former Dow Jones senior vice president and Pulitzer Prize winner; John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center and retired publisher of the Nashville Tennesseean; Anita Parran, associate state director for Missouri AARP; and many others are coming to Kansas City in September for the national professional conference of the Association for Women in Communications.

The annual professional conference will be Sept. 14-16 at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center, Kansas City, Mo.

This national event features workshops offering skills to help communicators and communications entrepreneurs, sessions to keep you up to date on technology, networking opportunities and discussions on the First Amendment.

For more information and to register, visit www.womcom.org and click on the conference logo. Or phone conference co-chair Pris Chansky at (816) 392-3642, e-mail evybdyneeds@hotmail.com.

(And to learn more about the Kansas City chapter of the AWC, visit http://www.kcwomcom.org/about/about.htm.

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