Name: Karen Goslin, APR

Chapter: Charlotte

Current position: SVP, Operational Risk Manager

How long in current position: 2 years in Risk, 29 years in Communications

First PR job: Fellers & Company PR and Marketing, Austin, Texas

Where you attended college:  The University of Texas at Austin

If you weren’t doing PR, you’d be.., managing risk. Oh, I’m doing that now…

What is your passion? My family and my garden.

Proudest professional accomplishment: Getting my first “corporate” PR job (Alcoa) and earning my APR (1996).

Why are you a PRSA member? When I was younger, I wanted to be considered among the best of the best PR practitioners. Now that I’ closer to retirement and have changed professions, I maintain my APR to remember where my roots are planted.

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