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, University of Maryland / sunlee@umd.edu
Committee Member / Rosalynn Vasquez, Baylor University / rosalynn_vasquez@baylor.edu
Committee Member / Nur Uysal, DePaul University / nur.uysal@depaul.edu
Committee Member / Teresa Tackett, University of Arkansas / tt043@uark.edu
Committee Member / Luke Capizzo, Michigan State University / capizzol@gmail.com
Committee Member / Chris Yim, Loyola Chicago / myim@luc.edu
Committee Member / Dongqing Xu, University of Minnesota / xu001394@umn.edu/ dxx73@miami.edu
Committee Member / Stephanie Madden, Penn State / szm962@psu.edu
Committee Member / Jun Zhang, Middle Tennessee State University / jun.zhang@mtsu.edu