Wichita native Wilma Moore-Black has been elected President of the Kansas Professional Communicators. Moore-Black, along with two other KPC board members, is active with the Wichita Professional Communicators. Elections were held April 17 in Council Grove, KS at the organization’s annual spring conference. Jill Miller was elected Vice President-Membership and Becky Funke, treasurer. Miller owns Creative Business Solutions in Wichita and Funke is Editor of Active Aging.
Other officers elected were Jane Lee of Kansas City as Vice President-Bylaws and Amy Eck of Ellsworth, Secretary. Gwendolynne Larson of Emporia will serve on the Executive Committee as the Past President of KPC.
Moore-Black works on the Wichita State University campus as the Assistant Director/Curriculum Coordinator of the TRIO Communication Upward Bound, a pre-college, federally funded program that serves high school students. She has served as the 2009 President of the Wichita Professional Communicators, Second Vice President-Bylaws for KPC and been a long-time member of the National Federation of Press Women.
During the state conference, more than 100 communication contest awards were presented for recognition of writing, editing, layout design, photography and other professional communication skills. State scholarships were given to area college students.
Moore-Black holds bachelor’s degrees from Kansas State University (Journalism and Mass Communications) and Newman University (Secondary Education). She completed graduate work status of ABD in Curriculum and Instruction from K-State. Her journalistic career includes stints with The Wichita Eagle, United Press International, The Ledger Star (Norfolk, VA), The Community Voice and KAKE-TV.
KPC professional development and major networking opportunities for working communicators, freelancers and career-directed students. KPC is affiliated with the National Federation of Press Women and will observe its 70th anniversary in 2011.
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