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Name: Brenda Pennington
Position: Sponsorship Manager
Describe some of your responsibilities: Solicit
sponsorship funds for all meetings and schools; registration for
all meetings and schools; E-News job ads posting and billing;
travel for executive officers and boards when requested.
How long have you been with IAAM? On May 19, it will be
11 years.
Favorite Part of IAAM: Traveling to our different
meetings. I love being able to spend time with the membership
and getting to know them. Over the years I have developed some
very close friendships with a number of our members, and I even
keep in contact with some who are no longer in the industry.
What are some exciting things coming up in your area that you
would like our members to know about? I am very excited
because I have started contacting our past conference sponsors
for this year’s 83rd Annual Conference & Tradeshow and will
continue to make contacts as I travel to the various district
meetings this spring. I feel that this year will be one of our
best annual conferences and I look forward to seeing the final
product. In addition, for the past year at various meetings, our
Allied members have been talking about the need for a one-stop
shop for sponsorship opportunities. I have been working closely
with the Allied DAL, the Allied Chair and our various specialty
meeting committees to come up with an all inclusive brochure
that will outline each meeting and the availabilities for each
meeting. There will be a specific section on the Foundation
including contact information to make a donation. This will also
introduce opportunities for global sponsorships and will
encompass all opportunities available within the Association and
the Foundation. I am excited about this project and hope to have
this available to roll out soon.
How do you hope to add value to the IAAM Members? With
the addition of the Sponsorship brochure, for lack of a better
title at this time, I hope to eliminate the duplicate phone
calls that our Allied Members receive. They currently receive
calls from several different areas regarding sponsorship and it
is my hope that this will give them a central point of contact.
Who/What inspires you? My daughter Jordan is a great
inspiration to me. She is an only child. Jordan went to a small
private Catholic school. When she was in her junior year, the
school went though an extremely tough financial period. They
lost teachers and more than half of their students. We thought
about pulling her out of that school and enrolling her in
another private school but she wanted to stay where her friends
were, even though the quality of education she would receive
might not be as good. She was the only graduation senior and
since she attended a private school, there were no class
rankings. On her own merit, without the benefits of the top 10%
ranking, she was accepted at the University of Texas at Austin
and is currently a junior majoring in communication studies. She
makes me so very proud.
What is something that the members don’t know about you?
My real hair color – I am not sure I do. I am also a certified
belly dancer in both cabaret and tribal styles and I just
recently started taking Hula/Tahitian dance lessons. I have
recently retired from playing soccer, which I did for almost 20
years. In May, I will be resigning my position as president of
North Texas Women’s Soccer Association, a position I have held
for the past six years.
Hobbies: Dancing – of course, lifting weights, plugging
in the IPOD and taking long walks, and reading.
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