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The San Antonio chapter of PRSA has nearly 150 active members on its roster. If you aren’t a member yet, we invite you to join us. On a monthly basis, PRSA-SA offers engaging luncheon speakers. We also offer routine opportunities for networking and professional development. Whether you’re starting out in the business, you’ve been practicing for a while now or you’re entering PR as a second career, we’d love to get to know you.

Welcome New Member…

Mark D. Kinkade
Consultant
Booz Allen Hamilton

Membership Special:

Join PRSA in May and receive a $25 Visa gift card. (Offer not valid for Associate Membership. Cannot be combined with any other promotion.) Visit the membership section of www.prsa.org for more information.

Additionally, PRSA offers a one-time hardship plan for PRSA members who have lost their jobs and discounts for organizations with eight or more PRSA-SA members. To learn more about PRSA-SA membership, contact Christi Fish (christi.fish@utsa.edu or 210-458-7584) or Natalie Tate (ntate@rbfcu.prg or 210-619-2253).

While most of us think of Fiesta, the Party with a Purpose, as one month of festivities and philanthropy, for a select few, Fiesta San Antonio is a year-round job. Anne Keever Cannon serves as the public relations manager for the Fiesta San Antonio Commission. Learn more about Anne’s work for one of the nation’s premier festivals, her proudest career accomplishment (it’s PRSA-related) and her passion for the stage.

How long have you worked in public relations/communications?

I began in the public relations field in 1976, when I was hired as a public affairs intern for the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, Va. The two-year internship was mostly on-the-job training in the three primary public affairs areas: command information (or employee communications), public information (now called media relations) and community relations.

The Army sent me to an eight-week public affairs officers’ course at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis in 1977. That was my only formal training in the field.

After the internship, I continued working for the Army until 1997 with jobs at Fort Knox, Ky., the Lexington Bluegrass Army Depot in Kentucky and the Southwestern Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Dallas.

Since moving to the San Antonio area in 1997, I’ve worked for several organizations, mostly nonprofits. Since 2003, I’ve been public relations manager for the Fiesta San Antonio Commission.