Recognizing Rising Leaders:
An Awards Program to Build Leadership
The Joe Curley Rising Leader Award program is intended to identify and honor up-and-coming individual FPRA members who demonstrate emerging leadership traits along with dedicated active involvement in FPRA Chapter activities, programs, functions and events. The goal of this FPRA program is to help recognize personal dedication and engagement of members with two to five years of membership and to help build a healthy leadership stream at the local chapter level.
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Selecting the
Joe Curley
Rising Leader Award
Chapter Nomination
The recipient of the annual Joe Curley Rising Leader Award is selected from a Rising Leader Class of that year. Membership into the Rising Leader Class is determined by chapter nomination. Each chapter selects one candidate to be part of the class. Nominations must be an FPRA member in good standing for two to five years, demonstrate leadership traits and be actively involved in Chapter’s events, programs and activities. The Class is recognized each year at the PR & Comms Summit, at which the Rising Leader Award winner is announced.
CWC-FPRA’s Rising Leaders
• 2024 Laura Ansel, APR, CPRC– LeadershipFPRA Scholarship Recipient
• 2023 Travis Cornwell
• 2022 Hunter Carpenter – LeadershipFPRA Scholarship Recipient
• 2021 Sarah Glendening
• 2020 Andrea Knies, APR
• 2019 Eleni Kouvatsos, APR – APR Scholarship Recipient
• 2018 Kim Livengood, APR, CPRC
• 2017 Sharon Kunkel, APR, CPRC
• 2016 Rhonda Leiberick, APR – Joe Curley Rising Leader Recipient
• 2015 Jeremy Piper
• 2014 Tara Poulton