As executive director of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, I know first hand how important our work is. The opportunity to be part of the leadership team at OWAA is exciting, challenging and a career highlight for me.
OWAA is comprised of more than 800 individual outdoor communicators from the broad, modern spectrum of outdoor beats, from shooting to camping, fishing to kayaking, wildlife watching to backpacking. We believe in improving the professional skills of our members, setting the highest ethical and communications standards, encouraging public enjoyment and conservation of natural resources, and being mentors for the next generation of professional outdoor communicators.
We do that by networking with fellow professional communicators, publishing Outdoors Unlimited magazine, offering job and editorial listings in our Outdoor Market and most notably, hosting our annual conference. We offer craft improvement advice, industry news, information on technology trends, available job openings, conservation news, and business advice.
While much of what we do is aimed at our members and supporters, we do share a fair amount of information with the public.
I will be sharing that public information here on Dispatches. My goal is to help spread the news but also to offer you a view into the world of OWAA.
If you want more information about OWAA you can find it at OWAA.org.
If you are interested in learning about joining OWAA take a look at OWAA.org/join.