Suong Nguyen, senior advertising and public relations major at the CoJMC, was recently accepted to the 2019 Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP). The program is sponsored by the American Advertising Federation (AAF) and provides students with a full-time, paid internship.
Alumna Rebekka Schlichting was recently named a 2018 “Native American 40 Under 40 Award” recipient by The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development.
CoJMC alumna Mecca Slaughter is working as a professor of English at the University of Tetovo in Macedonia. Slaughter is a May 2016 journalism graduate and a May 2018 master’s grad from the integrated media communications track.
Karla Martinez, a 2018 Advertising and Public Relations graduate, certainly had her fair share of experience. She interned at Partners + Napier in Rochester, New York the summer before she graduated. Upon returning to Nebraska for her senior year, she was a part of Jacht, Ad Club, Creative Commons and interned at the Asian Community Culture Center.
College of Journalism and Mass Communications professor Trina Creighton is preparing to conduct research on diversity and how her students’ thoughts may have changed after a semester of studying it, but before she gets started she needs something very important -- time.
Rebekka Schlichting, a 2016 master’s grad from the CoJMC professional journalism track, is using her journalism skills to tell stories of Native American people.
When NaTasha Rollerson-Gordon was an advertising and public relations major in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, she embraced her African-American heritage while preparing for her professional future.
The CoJMC recently celebrated homecoming by showcasing multicultural alumnae in many classes and celebrating their accomplishments. Molly Chapple, an alumna and enrolled member of the Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, is one of the women the college was celebrating.
CoJMC Professor Gary Kebbel will serve as a virtual trainer and moderator for journalists in Fiji who are reporting on an upcoming general election in October.
