CPRS-VI 2025 AGM Report and Event

Join us at the Canadian Public Relations Society of Vancouver Island's Annual General Meeting on Thursday, June 5, 2025, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm PDT at Kwench in Victoria for refreshments, food from Truffles Catering, and connections with our communications community.

Although this is an AGM, everyone is welcome to attend! The in-person event is free for CPRS members and $15 for non-members. Registration will open soon!

The night will start with chapter business - including announcing new members of the Board of Directors, and then a special presentation will begin (details below).

Watch for our annual report and for further information in May.

About our special presentation:

Every Voice Matters – Building a New Engagement Framework with Input from Coastal Communities with Amy Bronee, BC Ferries Director of Community Relations 

In November of 2024, BC Ferries announced its 13 ferry advisory committees would be replaced with a new engagement system in 2025 to better address the evolving needs of growing coastal communities. From January to March, BC Ferries sought input from diverse groups to help inform the development of its new public engagement framework.

Amy Bronee will speak to what led up to this initiative, the response from communities and interest holders, tales from a multi-week ferry tour, the in-depth research and communications work to date, evaluation metrics, and what happens next.

About our speaker:

Amy is the Director of Community Relations at BC Ferries. Her professional background includes roles in public engagement, communications, and media relations at the provincial and municipal levels. She has worked on public engagement projects as local as designing a new neighbourhood playground to as large as the provincial referendum on electoral reform, cannabis regulation, and the re-establishment of the human rights commission in British Columbia. Amy also has a background in broadcasting, including TV and radio news. Outside of work, Amy loves cooking, podcasts, movies, a weekly dance class, and helping her two teenage sons chase their big dreams.