LIVE VIRTUAL EVENT

When: Wednesday, Nov. 11; 5:30-6:30 p.m. CT
Where: Virtual Webinar (Registration is required to receive the access details from Zoom Webinar)

FEES
Chapter member and Student registration is FREE.
Non-members: $5 (Proceeds to support the Young Professionals Network.)

The registration deadline is Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 4:30 p.m. CT.

Not able to attend the live virtual event? Register for the event, and we’ll send out a link to the recording 1-2 weeks after the live event.

PROGRAM DETAILS

According to Dr. Pragya Agarwal, a contributor to Forbes magazine, “Mentors can provide support, accountability and can also be used as a sounding board... This relationship is not only valuable for the mentee but can also be very useful for the mentor.” Mentorship has been invaluable for many but, especially, in the age of COVID when it might be more challenging to network and develop mentor-mentee relationships.

Join PRSA Chicago for an up-close and personal discussion between mentors and their mentees. Learn about the type of professional guidance, encouragement, and support mentors and mentees have gained from each other, and how to forge a valuable mentorship yourself.

SPEAKERS

Ally Dunne
Senior Account Executive, Corporate Affairs, Zeno Group
@zenogroup
Ally Dunne is a Senior Account Executive in Zeno Group’s corporate practice based in Chicago, specializing in media relations, thought leadership, executive visibility and social impact. She leads strategy development and provides account support for clients across verticals – from technology to food/agriculture to hospitality – including Hyatt, Fidelity Charitable, Pizza Hut, Kohl’s, Modelo and the Arbor Day Foundation.

With deep expertise of media landscapes spanning a wide range of industries, she crafts compelling media narratives that align corporate storytelling with trending topics and issues. She has fostered strong media relationships with key national and trade outlets, with secured placements in outlets such as The New York Times, CNBC, Fox Business, Fast Company, Forbes and more.

Dunne received a B.A. in Strategic Communications from Elon University and is currently serving as mentorship co-chair for the Public Relations Society of America - Chicago Chapter's (PRSA Chicago) Young Professionals Network. She also provides pro-bono PR consultation to local nonprofits in the Chicagoland area.

Joseph Tateoka
Vice President, Talent Director, Edelman
@EdelmanPR
Joseph Tateoka is a vice president, talent director at Edelman Chicago. Tateoka started at Edelman in December 2012 on the B2B Corporate Technology team and in August 2019, he transitioned to the Talent team. In his role he is a talent partner for various practices and supports the organization’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, leads the Chicago office’s citizenship efforts (pro bono, volunteerism, employee network groups, and sustainability), supports Learning & Development programing as well as internal communications special projects (i.e. Return to Office).

Previously, he spent more than 12 years as a strategic account and team lead for B2B, technology and corporate clients including: Amazon Web Services, Braintree, CA Technologies, HP 3D Printers, HP Enterprise, and PayPal at Edelman, Burson-Marsteller and Ruder Finn.

Tateoka is an adjunct professor at DePaul University’s College of Communications and serves as member of the college’s Dean’s Advisory Council. Previously, he served as the professional advisor for DePaul University’s PRSSA chapter from 2010 – 2016. He is also an active PRSA Chicago member and is currently serving a second term as a Board of Director, co-chairing the membership committee. He is also a member of the Accrediting Committee for the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism & Mass Communications (ACEJMC).

Tateoka is an advocate for the Little People of America (LPA), given his eldest son’s dwarfism diagnosis in 2015, and is currently serving as the Director of District 6 for the LPA which comprises five chapters and more than 150 members in Illinois and Wisconsin.

Maddie Petschow
Senior Associate, Golin
@GOLINglobal
Maddie Petschow is a Senior Associate at Golin, a progressive public relations agency headquartered in Chicago. At Golin, Petschow contributes her expertise in client service and media relations for a large telecommunications brand in the technology practice. Before joining the PRSA Chicago board as a communications co-chair, she was a volunteer assiting on social media and content creation efforts.

Prior to Golin, Petschow served as a fellow and then assistant account manager at Hawthorne Strategy Group, a local Chicago firm focused on a diverse set of clients in non-profit, healthcare, and higher education. While she was in college, Petschow served as an intern for a B2B technology company and as a brand ambassador for a local marketing organization serving the spirits industry. Before entering public relations, Petschow worked in hospitality and as a fitness instructor.

Natasha Vuppuluri
Senior Vice President, Director of Marketing, MSL
@MSL_USA
@msl_group
@natashapsawlani
Natasha Vuppuluri has over a decade of experience working across strategic marketing and corporate communications. Her experience spans brand building, reputation management, C-Suite strategy, product and program marketing and organizational communications. She holds a dual masters from Loyola University Chicago's Quinlan School of Business -- an MBA (with focus on International Business and Entrepreneurship) and an MS in Accounting.

Vuppuluri is SVP, head of Marketing at MSL U.S. She leads the agency’s strategic internal and external communications and is responsible for driving a consistent brand for the agency and elevating the firm’s presence in the industry. Vuppuluri works across the global MSL network and Publicis Groupe on select assignments with integration – and integrated innovation – a central part of continued transformation for the agency and the industry as a whole.

Prior to joining MSL, Vuppuluri built and grew the Global Marketing and New Business functions at Zeno Group. She significantly elevated Zeno's profile, culminating in the agency being named 2019 Agency of the Year and Midsize Agency of the Year at both the PRWeek US Awards and PRovoke Media's SABRE Awards.

MODERATOR

Kisakye "Kisa" Mugwanya
Senior Account Executive, FleishmanHillard Chicago
@Fleishman
@fhchicago
@KisakyeMugwanya
Kisakye Mugwanya is a Senior Account Executive at FleishmanHillard Chicago. Since joining the global agency in 2017 as an Aflred Fleishman Diversity Fellow, she’s consulted across a suite of brand marketing offerings including media relations, social media strategy, executive visibility, reputation management and culture analysis and insights.

In her current role, she leverages unique experiences, influential people, data and trends to elevate brand recognition, employee engagement and consumer buying behavior for a diverse portfolio of clients including: Gatorade, Propel, Quaker Oats, AbbVie and Western Union. This summer, Mugwanya was recognized at PRSA Chicago’s 2020 Skyline Awards as the Young Professional of the Year—honoring her accomplishments as rising star in the public relations profession and next generation leader.

Mugwanya, originally from Flemington, New Jersey,  graduated magna cum laude from the University of Florida in Gainesville with a B.S. in public relations. In celebration of her standout professional development during her undergraduate career, she received the 2017 Jack Detweiler Professional Promise in Public Relations award from the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications.

Questions? Please send an email to the Programming Committee at [email protected].

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