NGWA Public Awareness Director Cliff Treyens has been a communications professional for 30 years. His experience includes more than 10 years as a newspaper reporter during which he was a member of the reporting team that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Service. He also served as Communications Director for former Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus (1988-1991) and the late Ohio House Speaker Vernal G. Riffe Jr. (1992-1995). Treyens also was a public relations practitioner from 1996 until joining NGWA in September, 2003.