Meet Jean

Jean M. Mrasek went from legacy to leadership, a role not unlike many of the women who preceded her in the decades of history established under the National Panhellenic Conference.

As a Chi Omega at The University of Tulsa, she quickly assumed a leadership role in the
close-knit fraternal environment on campus where chapters were small and collegial.

“It was a great start for me.” To this day, she remains a close friend to her first mentor, an
octogenarian Kappa Kappa Gamma and retired assistant dean of women at her university. For Jean, her mentor planted the “seed for the greater good in Panhellenic — she encouraged us to get out of our silos.” That life lesson remains with her today, as Jean believes desirable outcomes come from collaboration.

With travel for a year to chapters around the country, Jean then had a brief stint as a newspaper reporter. From her early reporting years, Jean became adept at analytical thinking and critical fact-gathering on deadline. With degrees in
advertising, public relations, and industrial and organizational psychology, she put those skills into use for both sorority and career. She worked nearly a decade in the University of Tulsa’s Office of Admission. But Chi Omega work as a “professional volunteer” was never off the radar, including a term as national president.

She was involved in a two-year process reviewing scores of Unanimous Agreement documents forged by decades of NPC women who set sorority standards. The extraordinary re-examination of history and review of archival letters impressed upon her the statesman-like quality of consensus and diversity of opinion.

Jean served as Chi Omega Fraternity’s national president four years and also served on its governing council. In her sorority leadership role, she helped craft training modules for collegians and alumnae.

Priorities while serving as national president included the rollout of a new visual identity as part of an all-encompassing communications plan, technology upgrades and adding new forms of risk-management education.

Now working as the chief of staff in the Office of the Chancellor at Texas Christian University, Jean continues to successfully manage her career work with her professional volunteer work.