awcsbBy the AWC-SB
The Association for Women in Communications Santa Barbara (AWC-SB) is excited to announce that board members Hilary Lyn and Leslie Dinaberg each won a Clarion Award from the national Association for Women in Communications. This year is the 50th anniversary of the Clarion Awards, which are open to all and honor excellence in categories across all communications fields.
Hilary Lyn, MS, MA, President of the AWC-SB Board of Directors, won an award in the Special Events category for creating the Fielding Graduate University conference “Global Leading and Learning: Co-creating an Equitable Future Social Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the 21st Century.” She is Director of Alumni Relations for Fielding Graduate University.
Leslie Dinaberg, AWC-SB Board member, won an award in the Newsletters category for the Santa Barbara Independent’s “ON Culture,” an online newsletter offering a snapshot view of the best of local culture and fun happenings in the worlds of music, theater, visual art, film, dance, books, lectures, digital media, fashion, and more. She is the Arts, Culture, and Community Editor for the Santa Barbara Independent.
ABOUT AWC-SB
The Association for Women in Communications is a national organization that helps women develop and deepen the communication skills they need to succeed in a variety of fields. Communications consultant Lois Phillips, publisher Mindy Bingham, and producer Deborah Hutchison founded the Santa Barbara Chapter of the Association of Women in Communications (AWC-SB) in 2006. They saw a need for a dynamic, local organization that cut across sectors to bring together professional communicators, solopreneurs, scholars, and corporate communicators as well as communications majors at local colleges and universities.
Today, AWC-SB membership includes journalists and broadcasters, entrepreneurs, designers and marketers, authors, corporate communicators, photographers, coaches, and public relations experts. AWC-SB offers professional communicators and businesswomen an opportunity to network with colleagues who understand the challenges of contemporary communications.
AWC-SB is governed by an all-volunteer board. The 2023-24 Board of Directors is led by Hilary Lyn. Other board members include: Claudia Dunn, Jerrol Golden, Brooke Holland, Lauren Bianchi Klemann, Leslie Dinaberg, Carolyn Jabs, Monica Kunz, Jennifer LeMay, Lisa Osborn, Ana Papakhian, Judith Smith-Meyer, and Joan Tapper.
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