Mid-Level Career Professionals
Focus on refining your expertise, building leadership skills, and contributing to the evolution of your profession.
EXPAND YOUR CONNECTIONS
Join a Section
Specialized content and networking opportunities provide additional membership benefits, such as an exclusive online community, newsletters, training and in-person annual events.
Join a Chapter
Our Chapters bring the Society's vast resources to your neighborhood. Adding a Chapter to your PRSA network enables you to become part of a tight-knit group of communications professionals in your community.
GIVE & GET SUPPORT FROM PEERS
Become a Mentor
PRSA's Mentor Connect program helps members build connections and form mentoring relationships with each other.
Join the Online Community
MyPRSA offers many community forums where members can learn, ask questions and share information.
Affinity Groups
PRSA's Affinity Groups serve as a convening method for like-minded members to meet, share ideas, and build networks and relationships.
SHINE A SPOTLIGHT ON YOUR WORK
Anvil Awards
The Anvils set the standard for industry excellence, and have long been considered the icon of the profession and the benchmark of outstanding performance in public relations.
STAY CURRENT & EXPAND YOUR SKILLSET
Professional Development
Whether you prefer to learn through in-person sessions or online courses at your office, PRSA offers solutions to meet your needs.
Get Accredited
The Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) credential sets you apart from your peers and positions you as a leader and mentor in the public relations field.
Strategies & Tactics
Strategies & Tactics is a monthly publication offering lifelong learning to help members improve their job skills, stay competitive and advance their careers by providing helpful, how-to information and timely analysis of issues.
Resources & Toolkits
PRSA offers a wide range of timely resources and tools, conveniently organized around specific topics.
CHAMPION ETHICAL PRACTICES
Code of Ethics
PRSA is committed to ethical practices. The level of public trust PRSA members seek, as we serve the public good, means we have taken on a special obligation to operate ethically.
FIND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Jobcenter
Find a job through the PRSA Jobcenter. Search jobs by keyword, job function, industry, organizational setting, job type or location.
WEBINARS
From webinars and workshops to certifications and conferences, PRSA offers new professionals a world of opportunities to sharpen their skills and stay on top of the latest trends.
The following is a sample of events and programming available to all professionals. PRSA members enjoy complimentary or discounted access, getting the value that translates into 3X the annual membership fee on average!
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PRSA 2025 Health Academy Conference
Oct 27 – 28, 2025
Washington, D.C.
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Educators Academy Summit
Oct 27, 2025
Washington, D.C.
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PRSA ICON 2025
Oct 28 – 30, 2025
Washington, DC
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APR Virtual Boot Camp
Nov 5 – 7, 2025
This course is designed to provide a setting for busy professionals to focus on final preparations. We strongly recommend that candidates complete previous preparations through their local chapter, on their own or by taking the APR Online Course. (This is not a seminar for those beginning their APR journey.) -
Strategic Communications for Associations and Nonprofits Certificate Program
Nov 5 – Dec 17, 2025
For associations and nonprofits, effective communication is not a luxury — it’s a necessity for advancing mission, maintaining trust and demonstrating value to members, donors, policymakers and the public. Yet in many organizations, communications efforts are under-resourced, reactive or misaligned with strategic priorities.
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Reputation Resilience: A Self-Assessment To Prepare for the Unpredictable
Dec 30, 2099 5:01 AM – 6:01 a.m.
Join this webinar to learn how to conduct a self-assessment of your organization’s ability to prepare for and navigate reputational challenges big and small. -
Storytelling Intensive Webinar Series
Dec 30, 2099 5:01 AM – 6:01 a.m.
In this pair of hands-on webinars, you’ll build an inventory of potential stories for the biggest issues your stakeholders face; then you’ll have a chance to road test them with your peers and get direct feedback from storytelling expert, coach and author Rob Biesenbach. -
The Fire’s Out, Now What? What Organizations and Leaders Can Learn From Post-Crisis Assessments
Dec 30, 2099 5:01 AM – 6:01 a.m.
Every crisis can make you and your team better. Join this webinar to learn how to go beyond whether you met your goals and objectives to evaluate people, plans and processes without blame. -
Trademarks, Copyrights and Publicity Rights: An Explanation of Intellectual Property and the Digital Space
Dec 30, 2099 5:01 AM – 6:01 a.m.
Intellectual property law can appear mystifying to the very people it is intended to protect: you. This webinar provides participants with an understanding of the basics of trademark, copyright and right of publicity law, to help navigate the balance between freedom of speech and intellectual property -
The "Golden Rule" to the "Rubber Band Rule": How to Adapt Leadership Skills in Evolving Times to Build Respect and Trust
Dec 30, 2099 5:01 AM – 6:01 a.m.
Join this webinar to learn how respect is dynamic, relative, contradictory and subjective, and discovery how to apply it every day in the workplace and in your personal life.