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While attending Orange Coast College, I served two semesters on the Editorial Board of Coast Report, the award-winning campus’s digital paper of record.

had the great opportunity to work as a student assistant in the campus Marketing and Public Relations office. At the time they were on the search for a Public Relations Specialist; and so, I was able to step up to write press releases, media advisories, newsletter & magazine features and head the main social media account.

For my work, I received awards from Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) and Coast Report for photography, social media and writing. In my time at the paper, we also were awarded top 10 awards in ACP Best in Show News Website, two-year schools Best in Show News Website category, an overall General Excellence Award for news websites, first place for Two-Year Newspaper Website of the Year, second place for Two-Year Best College Media Group of the Year and third place for Division III & Two-Year Website of the Year (standalone) categories at the CMA Pinnacle College Media Awards, podcast series to its offering and, in its first semester up and running second place in the Podcast/Audio News category.

This opportunity helped me to grow my skills:

• strategic communications - with the M&PR team (Director, Photography, Video, Graphic Design, Webmaster and clients)

• campus connections - with the President’s office, departments heads, professors, staff and peers

• time management - balancing home, college, work and position as the Managing Editor of the school paper