Emily Zientek, MS

Emily Zientek, sustainability coordinator at SodexoLive!, shares the best advice she’s been given about dealing with difficult work situations.

Abby Skinner

Abby Skinner, YPO Southern 7’s chapter manager, shares her strategy for keeping work/life balance — planning personal time in advance for each month.

Lucie Sagne

Lucie Sagne, event designer at MCI Group Canada, would like to see initiatives at events that tackle food waste expanded in practice.

Amber Prothero

Amber Prothero, a musician, emcee, and a client executive for SongDivision and a member of PCMA's 20 in Their Twenties class of 2025, shares how her work has shown that event organizers can harness technology to create vital digital or hybrid events.

Iva Popova

Iva Popova, senior social media manager at Kenes Group, hopes that in the future she will be helping to amplify the events industry’s power to make a difference.

Caroline Pekar

Caroline Pekar, an assistant events manager at Freeman and a member of PCMA's 20 in Their Twenties class of 2025, hopes in the future to fill a gap she sees in the industry by mentoring young professionals new to event planning.

Samie Peckinpaugh

Samie Peckinpaugh, senior sales manager at Access DMC, shares her belief that events professionals will thrive by embracing their mistakes and learning from them.

Kelly Parkinson

Kelly Parkinson, resource development manager for the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting and a member of PCMA's 20 in Their Twenties class of 2025, believes the event professionals have an opportunity to better serve their communities by adopting more inclusive design — a practice she would like to see everyone in the industry embrace.

Lillian Nguyen, MS

Lillian Nguyen, MS, event security planner at Meta via Milestone Technologies and a member of PCMA's 20 in Their Twenties class of 2025, offers her tips to achieve work/life balance in the events industry.

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