CPRAM Board Members

	Harriet Laird, President
	Steve Diffey, Vice President Steve Diffey is the District Director of Communications and Director of Alumni Affairs at Holmes Community College. He came to Holmes in 1998 as the assistant director of the school's foundation and alumni. He became executive director of both office in 1999 and remained in that position until 2002 when he joined the public information office as the assistant director. He became director of the office in 2004. Before coming to Holmes, Diffey worked in the newspaper business for five years - two in Winona at the Winona Times and three in McComb at the Enterprise-Journal. He holds an associate of arts degree from Holmes Community College, a bachelor's degree in journalism from The University of Mississippi and a master's degree in educational leadership from Mississippi State University. He has two children, Tyler and Anna.
	Maria McLeod, Secretary Maria McLeod has been a member of CPRAM for 10 years and currently serves as Board Secretary. Since 1997, she has served as Assistant to the Vice President for Public Information at East Central Community College in Decatur. Prior to joining the ECCC staff, she was employed at The Neshoba Democrat, a weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, MS. She received her bachelor’s degree in Communications/Public Relations from Mississippi College and completed her associate’s degree at East Central Community College. She and her husband, Joey, have two sons, Collin and Grant.
	Donna Thomas, Treasurer
	Natalie Davis, Past President Natalie Davis has been a member of CPRAM since 2000. She currently serves as Director of Public Information and Sports Information at Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Wesson. For the past nine years, she has been the advisor for the award-winning campus newspaper, The Wolf Tales and the journalism instructor. In 2008, she will retire from her teaching duties and become the advisor for the Trillium yearbook. Prior to joining the Co-Lin staff in 1999, she was employed for 15 years at The Daily Leader in Brookhaven. Davis has been honored with numerous awards from the Mississippi Press Association, CPRAM and the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR). She received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Mississippi. Davis and her husband, Stephen, reside in Brookhaven. They are the parents of two children, Leah, a graduate student at the University of Alabama Birmingham and Paul, a junior at Arkansas State University.
	Chris Jenkins, Board Member
	Jeanna Graves, Board Member Jeanna served as president of the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi in 2000-01, and was recognized at the May 2004 conference for her service to CPRAM. She has been published in two international academic magazines and has had photos exhibited in several national theatre related publications and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as part of theatre students’ Barbizon design work. A William Carey College graduate with a BA in communication, she designed costumes for Hansel and Gretel and was honored as the Serampore Players’ Most Valuable Member in 1994. In 2004 Jeanna was awarded the Internal Revenue Service Volunteer Award, and the City of Hattiesburg Mayor’s Financial Education Initiative Appreciation Award. She is administrative assistant for the Office for Advancement at William Carey University and was named by the Student Government Association as Carey’s staff member of the year in 2002.
	Philip Smith, Board Member
	Julie Bauer , Board Member
	Barron von Foregger , Board Member
	Kim Jones , Board Member
	Clotee Lewis, Board Member
	Kell Smith , Board Member