Dr. Darina Slattery Receives an Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE Professional Communication Society

In July 2023, Dr. Darina Slattery was awarded the Emily K. Schlesinger Award for Outstanding Service to the IEEE Professional Communication Society at the IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), which took place in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Darina is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the Immediate Past President of IEEE ProComm, having served as President from 2021 to 2022, and previously as Vice President (2019-2020). During her term as President, she led IEEE ProComm through its five-year annual review (2021) and led the development of the new IEEE ProComm Strategic Plan (2023-2027). Darina has also served on several ProComm conference teams, including serving as proceedings co-chair for Madison (2017), as assistant web editor for Toronto (2018), and as ProComm board liaison for Aachen (2019). In 2020 and 2021, she facilitated the move to online/hybrid conferences, and she assisted local logistics for Limerick (2022). She has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication and also as a regular reviewer. She is currently working with the ProComm board to permanently establish a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Chair for ProComm conferences and will serve as Program Co-Chair for ProComm 2024, which will be held in Pittsburgh.