Breakfast is included. Attendees can enjoy breakfast sandwiches, pastries, juice and coffee from Latam at the Centro.   

Speakers:
Carolyn Eastman, Director of Communications of The Children’s Board
Lane DeGregory, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer and Pulitzer Prize Winner

When:

February 23, 2010, 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Registration & networking: 8:00 - 8:30 a.m.

Program: 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.

Location:

The Children’s Board, 1002 East Palm Avenue, Tampa, FL 33605

Cost: 
Advance registration is encouraged.  

Carolyn Eastman

With more than 20 years experience leading communications functions, Carolyn has managed marketing and public relations for some of Tampa’s Bay’s largest public and private organizations. These include: Tropicana, The Florida Orchestra. St. Anthony’s Hospital and Carlton Fields Law firm. Today, Carolyn is the Communications Director for the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County where she has served since 1999.
 
Her expertise in media relations, marketing and public policy management has earned more than 30 awards from the communications industry.

Lane DeGregory

Lane DeGregory is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer at the St. Petersburg Times who prefers writing about people’s private struggles. She hung out with a little girl who had been kept in a closet for six years; went shopping with a city manager who was changing from Steve to Susan; and followed daredevil Evel Knievel as he worried whether he’d make it to his last public appearance.

Lane's stories have appeared in The Best Newspaper Writing 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2008 editions. She has been a frequent speaker at the Nieman Narrative Conference at Harvard, at National Writers Workshops and newspapers across the country and at The Poynter Institute. She has won more than a dozen national awards, including the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.