Kumpuris will deliver her talk, “Reach Out and Touch: Connecting High-Quality Educational and Storytelling Audiences through Video-Based Content,” at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 27 via Zoom.

In this lecture, Kumpuris will discuss strategies to effectively engage, inspire, and educate audiences through video-based content creation, including storytelling, language, on-camera talent, engagement, and understanding of the viewing audience.

Since joining Arkansas PBS in 2019, Kumpuris has led several initiatives in partnership with the Arkansas Department of Education, including the summer learning series, Rise and Shine, Arkansas AMI, and Arkansas IDEAS, which produces video resources. She has led storytelling initiatives at Arkansas PBS including the documentary, “7 Days – The Opioid Crisis.” Currently, she is producing the station’s first narrative kids’ television series, “Mystery League,” with 20 episodes filmed entirely in Arkansas. She has been nominated for four regional Emmy awards, winning one for her work on Arkansas AMI. She is also a school board member for the Excel Center at Goodwill Industries of Arkansas.

In 2022, Kumpuris was selected to serve on the National PBS Station Leadership Committee for Children’s Media and Education. For 18 years, she led a national business training network as a broadcast producer and on-camera talent at Dillard’s corporate in Little Rock. In 2011, she freelanced as a producer and received three Telly awards for her work. She received a Master of Arts degree in Applied Communication from ����Vlog��ý Little Rock in 2020, and her graduate work focused on opioid education in Arkansas.

The Leadership Lecture Series features presentations by faculty and graduates of the Department of Applied Communication at ����Vlog��ý Little Rock in the areas of communication, management, and leadership.

The lecture is free and open to the public. You may sign up for the virtual lectures via this online form.

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Dr. Julien Mirivel and Dr. Avinash Thombre, professors of applied communication at ����Vlog��ý Little Rock, will present “The 7 Elements of Personal Transformation: Key Lessons from Global Research in Nepal, India, Uganda, and Honduras” Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 6:30 p.m.

Grounded in data collected in partnership with Heifer International, a global nonprofit whose mission is to “end hunger and poverty while caring for the Earth,” the fall 2023 lecture will share the story of an interdisciplinary research project that began in Nepal in 2019 and spanned four countries across three continents. Based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of survey responses, this leadership lecture will show how any person can harness their agency and communicative power to create real change in their lives and in the life of their community.

The next Leadership Lecture Series will feature Sajni Kumpuris, director of education at Arkansas PBS. She will deliver her lecture, “Reach Out and Touch: Connecting High-Quality Educational and Storytelling Audiences Through Video-Based Content” Feb. 27, 2024.

In the Spring 2024 leadership lecture, the audience will learn about strategies to effectively engage, inspire, and educate audiences through video-based content creation, including storytelling, language, on-camera talent, engagement, and understanding of the viewing audience.

The Leadership Lecture Series features presentations by faculty and graduates of the Department of Applied Communication at ����Vlog��ý Little Rock in the areas of communication, management, and leadership.

Both lectures are free and open to the public and will be held virtually via Zoom. You may sign up for the virtual lectures via this online form.

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