Member Profile: Prakriti Roy and Saskia Janicki

Saskia Janicki, Alumni Stewardship Officer and Prakriti Roy Alumni Engagement Officer, are both recent additions to the Alumni Engagement team at Leeds Beckett University.

In this profile, they discuss their career experiences to date and what it’s been like as newcomers entering the world of alumni engagement. 

After receiving the Virginia Carter Smith Scholarship, Lazara Morgan, Content Engagement Manager at King’s College, chose to attend CASE’s Alumni Relations Institute in June 2022.

In this interview, Lazara expands on her role’s responsibilities and gives insight into why she chose the Institute to help with her professional development.

Toni Buckley worked for years as a photographer. Community ties brought her to advancement and her current role as Director of Alumni Relations at Berkshire Community College in Massachusetts, U.S. Here, Buckley shares how creativity, storytelling, and community-building have all shaped her work in alumni relations.

Be open to new ideas and solutions to solve problems, say Sinéad Collins and Ovidia Lim-Rajaram, chairs of this year's Asia-Pacific Advancement Conference. Here they share their best professional advice and more on the conference’s 2021 theme: transformation.  

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, advancement professionals around the globe have had to rethink how to foster and maintain relationships. Here, Jean van Sinderen-Law of University College Cork in Ireland explores how to nurture relationships online and overcome the challenges of leading and working during a crisis.

Technology, data, people, and problem-solving power Sarah Barr and Rodger Devine’s day-to-day lives. As chair and co-chair of DRIVE/ 2020, CASE's data and analytics conference this March in New Orleans, Barr and Devine are shaping a program rich with data-driven insights.

Alex Miles, director of global and political affairs at the University of Nottingham and chair of the 2019 CASE Europe Annual Conference, explores disruption, silo-busting, and why advancement professionals need to ban the phrase “that’s not my job” from their vocabulary.

During the last decade, advancement in Asia, Australia and the Middle East has grown exponentially—and along the way, CASE’s Asia-Pacific team has worked to build and strengthen a vibrant community of practice. Leading that charge has been Chua Beng Hwee , CASE Asia-Pacific’s executive director since 2010. 

Before he came to advancement, Charles Diab spent two decades as a senior leader for commercial organizations.

"Alumni and students now have unlimited information and engagement opportunities from countless sources," says Ruzek.