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 an award-winning journalist with four decades of experience writing about the Tampa Bay region. She is a member of
Leadership Florida and the Athena Society, and serves on the board of
The Institute for Research in Art (Graphicstudio, the Contemporary Art Museum, and USF’s Public Art Program) Community Advisory Council and the
StageWorks Theatre Advisory Council. 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 Broadcasting. Past accomplishments and community service include leadership positions with Awesome Tampa Bay, Arts Council of Hillsborough County, Alpha House of Tampa Bay, Florida Kinship Center, AIA Tampa Bay, Powerstories, and the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. She lives in South Tampa, is the mother of two adult daughters and grandmother to two amazing grandchildren, and travels whenever possible with laptop in tow.