Professional Interest Sections

Enhance your career by joining one or more of PRSA’s 19 Professional Interest Sections designed to focus on issues, trends and research in your specialized practice area.

Adding a Professional Interest Section to your PRSA membership can be an important asset if you work in a highly competitive industry or are responsible for specialized communications functions within your organization.

With forums to contribute to members' expertise and resources to increase professional effectiveness, PRSA's Professional Interest Sections offer niche networks and programming that are precisely relevant to professionals who work in one industry, like health care or travel and tourism, or that focus on a specific PR discipline such as employee communications.

More than 6,000 Section members design and participate in programs, seminars and conferences with speakers and topics customized to focus on issues, trends and research in specialized practice areas.

When you join a Professional Interest Section, you immediately receive these great benefits:

Real solutions for real challenges - professionals sharing with professionals
Customized professional development programs
A forum to which you can contribute your expertise
Resources that will increase your effectiveness
Leadership opportunities when you volunteer to develop Section goals

Professional Interest Sections:

Association/Nonprofit	Environmental	Military and National Security
Corporate	Financial Communications	Multicultural Communications
Counselors Academy*	Food & Beverage	Public Affair & Government
Counselors to Higher Education	Health Academy	Strategic Social Responsibility
Educators Academy	Independent Practitioners Alliance	Technology
Employee Communications	International	Travel & Tourism

And the newest addition to the groups: • Entertainment and Sports

* Counselors Academy has separate eligibility requirements.
Costs: Professional Interest groups have an annual fee of $60 per group. Learn more.