To those whom I have not been blessed to meet yet, I am your new IAP President for the 2025-2026 fiscal
year, Angie Ellis. I have been a member of IAP since August 2020. I had been on campus for several years and received a welcome email from the past IAP President, Dimitra Johnson, inviting me to a Career Connections luncheon (entirely on Zoom at that time). I immediately joined the Membership & Mentoring Committee, which led me to serve as Recording Secretary in 2022-2023. I highly encourage all of you to get involved in a committee, attend IAP Career Connections, and join the fun IAP Social events.
Thank you to Teresa Spence, our past IAP President, for all her contributions during last year’s term, specifically helping to implement a new Treasurer-Elect officer addition to our bylaws. We appreciate your dedication, hard work, and leadership in 2024-2025.
Please join me in congratulating Jill Odom, who was selected as our Member of the Year for 2024-2025. She has been an essential part of IAP for several years by serving as IAP Treasurer, Auditor, Co-Chair of the Philanthropy Committee, and our State Universities Civil Service Employee Advisory Committee liaison. Congratulations Jill!
I present to you this year’s committee chairs. If you are interested in inquiring more about a committee, please contact the chair using the email address below. Note that our Nominations & Elections, Communications, Membership & Mentoring and Philanthropy committees are specifically looking for additional members.
- Bylaws-Parliamentarian – Hannah Stites, hstites2@illinois.edu
- Communications – Sarah Wells, slwells@illinois.edu
- Membership & Mentoring – Allie Langley, ardonne2@illinois.edu; Hannah Stites, hstites2@illinois.edu
- Nominations & Elections – Teresa Spence, tcspence@illinois.edu
- Philanthropy – Deb Flessner, dflessne@illinois.edu; Jill Odom, jillodom@illinois.edu
- Programs & Events – Corissa Clark, okreglic@uillinois.edu; Nicole Kyle; kyle@uillinois.edu
- Scholarship – Helen Agans, hagans@illinois.edu
- Social – Dimitria Johnson, dimij@illinois.edu
Finally, I hope you can relax and enjoy some downtime during the summer months. I plan to take a trip to Denver, CO, in July to work at the 2025 American Control Conference and can hopefully fit in some time to get away with my kids before school is back in session. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns at amellis@illinois.edu.