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Our Chapter meets the 1st Tuesday of each month at Embassy Suites College Station: 201 University Drive E; College Station, Texas. We start at 5:30 pm for networking followed by dinner and the program; cost to attend is $28 per meeting.  Contact Susie Billings at bcsabwa@gmail.com for more information.

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   Featured Member: Mary Kalafatis, Top Ten Candidate

Congratulations to  our Chapter’s Top Ten candidate, Mary Kalafatis! Ms. Kalafatis has been a member since 2017 and engaged immediately in a variety of ways and roles.  She was League Secretary during 2018/19 and has utilized her skills and experience to chair the fundraising and newsletter committees, and helped with the League’s “Dream It, Dare to Do It” special events, publicity efforts, and scheduling speakers. Mary was the Chapter Vice President in 2019/20 and is the current President.  She  earned the  Chapter Protégé  award in 2018, the  Chapter Woman of the Year in 2019, and is currently the advisor for the student Chapter of ABWA at Texas A&M University.  Ms. Kalafatis is the Director of Advancement at Rec Sports where she leads  marketing, communications, and fundraising efforts. Her team is the voice of the Rec Sports brand, inspiring wellbeing and promoting the department through strategically placed, compelling messages, and also implementing a wide variety of strategies to obtain financial support for programs and students.  Mary serves on several department and university committees, is a peer mentor, and is a Leadership Coach for students at Texas A&M University.

Mary holds an MBA from Arizona State University and two Bachelors of Arts degrees from Michigan State University.  Ms. Kalafatis has over 28 years experience in business, with non-profits, and in higher education and has a proven ability in leadership, strategy, accounting,  program development, expansion and replication, and fundraising. She believes in the power of education as a lever that provides opportunity and opens doors, and has leveraged her experience to serve youth and students. She is passionate about social justice, loves to travel with her husband of 30+ years, read, walk, hike, brag about her two sons, and is addicted to podcasts!