Making a toast at Crafty Squirrel in St. Pete. Evolve & Co.
Tampa skyline on a cloudy day. Diane Egner
Perfect sailing weather in Tampa Bay. Diane Egner
Water taxi delivers passengers up and down the Hillsborough River in downtown Tampa. Diane Egner
Eva Worden of Worden Farm at the Saturday Morning Market in St Pete. Photo by Julie Branaman
Modera Prime 235 in downtown St Pete. Julie Branaman
Signage spotted in a storefront window. Diane Egner
Capitol Theater in Clearwater. James Branaman
Dunedin Art Harvest (2014). Julie Branaman
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Diane Egner is a community leader and award-winning journalist with more than four decades of experience reporting and writing about the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. She serves on the boards of the University of South Florida Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications Advisory Council, The Institute for Research in Art (Graphicstudio, the Contemporary Art Museum, and USF’s Public Art Program) Community Advisory Council, Sing Out and Read, and StageWorks Theatre Advisory Council. She also is a member of Leadership Florida and the Athena Society. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a BA in journalism, she won the top statewide award for editorial writing from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors while at The Tampa Tribune and received special recognition by the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists for creative work as Content Director at WUSF Public Media. Past accomplishments and community service include leadership positions with Tampa Tiger Bay Club, USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy (WLP), Alpha House of Tampa Bay, Awesome Tampa Bay, Florida Kinship Center, AIA Tampa Bay, Powerstories, Arts Council of Hillsborough County, and the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Diane and her husband, Sandy Rief, live in Tampa.