Amid a global pandemic, School of Communication students took on a range of communication summer internships — formative experiences spent working with major league sport teams, government agencies, nonprofits, production companies, and more.
Meet Emerson’s new SOC Faculty member for Fall 2020
Here’s the first of two Emerson Today posts that will help you get to know the newest full-time instructors in the School of Communication.
Emerson’s Office of Research and Creative Scholarship (ORCS) has gathered together examples of faculty research, writing, artistic work, classroom projects, and media engagements around the impact of the coronavirus, police brutality, and social change. The work originates from nearly every department and institute on campus, and has continued through the summer.
Amid a global pandemic, School of Communication students took on a range of communication summer internships — formative experiences spent working under political nonprofits, video production companies, major league sport teams and more.
As founder of the nonprofit organization Entertainment for Change (EFC), Jade Zaroff ’16 is connecting children with artists nationwide via online classes aimed at empowering youth on how to lead through art and activism.
Executive in Residence and Director of the Business of Creative Enterprises Program Wes Jackson contributed to an article examining race and pop culture in the wake of civil unrest across the country, as the murders George Floyd and other Black men and women have sparked protests and a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Julia Perry ‘20 and her Business of Creative Enterprises (BCE) cohort made Emerson College history this spring when they became the first-ever graduating class in its BCE undergrad program. Beyond the College, the small cohort of 30-plus students left a lasting impression with real-world clients after they provided six local partners with applicable creative business services.
Started in 2005, the E3 minor in Emerson’s School of Communication (SOC) is a yearlong immersive program designed to teach students from all majors how to build and launch their own business ventures. Directed by Lu Ann Reeb, Senior Executive-in-Residence in Marketing Communication, this year’s E3 class went remote along with the rest of the college in March due to the COVID-19 crisis. , leaving Reeb to instruct students both one-on-one and as a group across five time zones and four countries — including China, India, Costa Rica and the U.S.
Brent Smith, Professor and Chair of the Marketing Communication department, contributed to a piece regarding social media influencers during the COVID-19 pandemic and said said companies need to be thoughtful about their offerings.
