Gates Chili Central School District

Iva Petrosino, APR is the director of communications for the Gates Chili Central School District. Iva began her career in television news at WWBT-TV in Richmond, Virginia, and WHAM-TV in Rochester, York, before transitioning to school public relations. She is an active member of the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA) and New York School Public Relations Association (NYSPRA), in addition to her experience as the current APR/Ethics Chair for the Rochester Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and as past president of the Greater Rochester Professional School Communicators (GRPSC). In addition to being active within these organizations as a leader and mentor, Iva has earned more than 30 communications awards including being named to NSPRA’s 35 Under 35 in 2023. Iva holds a B.S. in Mass Communication from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture as well as the Accreditation in Public Relations (APR).