Welcome to the Public Relations Division's DEI Committee Blog Page!
The DEI Committee is responsible for the following:
DEI PROGRAMMING – Liaise with all PR Division Committees, particularly PF&R, Teaching, and Research Committees, to develop and support teaching, research, and service programming that eradicates social and racial injustice in order to foster a more equitable community for PR scholars, students, and professionals.
● PAPER COMPETITION CALL – Develop and distribute the yearly PR Division call for the Race & Ethnicity Research Paper Competition. With DEI team, review submissions for the paper call and select one paper competition winner.
● FINANCIAL SUPPORT – Work to raise funds for the Race & Ethnicity Paper Competition award and raise funds to support other relevant DEI initiatives across the PR Division.
Committee
Chair / Sun Young Lee / U of Maryland/ sunlee@umd.edu
Vice-Chair / Jun Zhang / Middle Tennessee State University / Jun.Zhang@mtsu.edu
Committee Member / Adrienne Muldrow / East Carolina University / muldrowa18@ecu.edu
Committee Member/ Zahedur Arman/Framingham State University/zarman@framingham.edu
Committee Member /Mohammad Ali/ University of Maryland/mali24@umd.edu
Committee Member / Dongqing Xu / U Miami / dxx73@miami.edu
Committee Member / Vishala Persad / University of Oklahoma / persad@ou.edu
Committee Member / Janice Lee / Louisiana State University / janicelee@lsu.edu
Committee Member / Taeyoung Kim / Loyola University Chicago / tkim18@luc.edu
Committee Member/Lisa Luedeman/Gardner-Webb University/ lluedeman@gardner-webb.edu