I am a M.A. candidate in Elon’s Interactive Media graduate program. It is a 10-month, intensive program where I am learning programming, graphic design, and production techniques. I currently am a contributor to their Eye on iMedia blog and a project manager for our study abroad trip in January.

After graduating in 2012, I started almost immediately at an in house marketing agency for a privately owned automotive group in Raleigh. That position eventually lead me to helping Co-Found Reunion Marketing with a team of like-minded individuals.

I feel so honored to have received a COM Studies departmental scholarship during my senior year at UNCW. As an out of state student, this scholarship gave me the opportunity to make the most out of my college experience. 

Choosing Communication Studies as my major was one of the best decisions I ever made. You don't realize at the time how many intangibles you're learning that will help you succeed, regardless of the career path you choose. I made lifelong friends and built the perfect foundation on which to build a successful career.

The communication courses that I took during my undergraduate career truly gave me the base knowledge  that I needed to effectively communicate in the workplace and flourish in my career.

Currently, I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Leadership Studies and an Adjunct Faculty member. I am still utilizing the invaluable skills that I received as a COMM student at UNCW. I love that I can email or call my COM professors lmost 20 years later and still receive the needed and valuable advice, support, and guidance that I received as a student. They care and are still there for me as an alum.  I would not be the professional I am today without the foundation laid by the Communications Department at UNCW.  People always compliment me on my public speaking abilities. What they don't know is that those skills were honed and developed during my days as a COM major at UNCW! I am forever grateful.