A Letter From 2024-2025 SMPS SA Communications
Happy Spring, SMPS San Antonio Members,
With about 15 members, the Communications team is our chapter’s largest committee, and we’re so proud to be at the helm. Throughout the year, we work to keep members apprised of all that’s happening within the chapter.
On a broad scale, our team is designing all the printed and digital materials for our events, maintaining the chapter’s website and social media pages, writing blog posts, publishing newsletters, and managing the Marketing Communications Awards process. On a more in-depth scale, we’re emailing and texting each other frequently to share updates on our member and project spotlight posts, editing graphics and getting them up on the website as quickly as possible, sending luncheon programs to the printer, setting up sponsor banners, and writing content for the near-daily social media posts we have planned out on our calendar.
As Director and Director-Elect, there’s also the component of working with the other members of the board, as they nail down event details, coordinating all the website updates when a new board year starts, getting Fiesta Medals designed and ordered, and publishing the Annual Recap, which all require a significant amount of input from the board and work from the committee. It’s many moving parts to juggle with an incredible team working together to make it happen.
Thank you will never be enough, but we have to recognize these members for all their efforts volunteering on the committee, many of them for several years. Their dedication to our chapter and attention to detail in all the work they do is so appreciated.
Miana Alvarez | Rogers-O’Brien
Elizabeth Arredondo | RS&H
Rosie Brunnemann | Kimley-Horn
Amanda Busbee, CPSM | KCI
Laura Castleton | CBRE
Mary Hazlett | Tetra Tech
Lauren Hillmann | Lake Flato Architects
Shelby Hodges | RVK Architecture
Allen Hoye | Marmon Mok Architecture
Angela Navarro | Cleary Zimmermann Engineers
Eva Ramirez | RVK Architecture
Maddy Stokes, CPSM | Cleary Zimmermann Engineers
Hannah Wheeler | Colliers Engineering & Design
If you’re a member who isn’t involved in a committee, the door is always open with the Communications team! But if Communications doesn’t sound like the right fit for you, there are countless other ways you can be involved with the chapter! You can join the Programs, Education, or Membership committees, register for educational events and luncheon programs, attend our fun-filled mixers, submit your work for awards, or simply like and share our posts on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook!
As we continue working through this year, we’re committed to producing high-quality content and graphics, highlighting our members and their work as often as possible, and ensuring members are aware of all that SMPS has to offer through the dozens of events we put on each year. If you’d like to join us, we’d love to have you!
Sincerely,
Jeanette Scarsdale | DBR Engineering
Communications Director
Alexandria Ballew, M.A. | AGC San Antonio
Communications Director-Elect
