I am an Arts and Collections project planning intern, working on an arts initiative titled “Arts4u”. I work for the associate provost of the Arts and Collections department, Judith Stoddart. Arts4u is focused on curating and organizing art and music-centric pop-up events hosted specifically for students, by students. Our mission revolves around locating new and imaginative spaces across MSU's campus to promote awareness of the arts in unexpected ways.
As a marketing/video editor with BASSETTI China, I learned communication skills and video editing skills during my internship. I gained a deeper understanding of the path in the marketing/video editing industry, exercised my communication skills, and learned the importance of communication.
My internship title this summer was Production Intern! My roles and responsibilities included assisting my manager with any production needs he might have, putting together Requests For Proposals to outside vendors, working with the other interns from the Detroit office to put together a final intern project and various social media challenges, putting together contact and FAQ sheets, sit in on daily client meetings and various production/creative/finance meetings.
As an intern with Big Bad Boo Studios, I created social media graphics and templates with Adobe, designed a holiday calendar, and updated the company profile with new branding principles. In addition, I attended various meetings to learn about each part of the animation industry from production to sales."
As a UX Design Intern, I redesigned the current Red Calabash website and developed it into WordPress, conducted UX/UI Analysis and competitive analysis of other digital design agency websites, and collaborated with the founder to create a revamped style guide for the redesigned website, including a new typography, color palette, and aesthetic in line with current trends in web design.
I worked as a fashion intern for the Lulla Collection in New York City. My responsibilities included working on the company's Instagram by posting images and reels of the company's products and models and keeping track of the company's inventory and online orders in Excel. I also worked in the showroom every day to organize the space and prepare for meetings.
As a School-age Teacher/Site Leader with the City of East Lansing Elementary Schools, I was responsible for managing an Elementary School's Before and After School care program along with introducing new technologies to increase the quality of life of parents, staff, and children.
As a Media Developer and Strategist for the Department of African American and African Studies, my roles and responsibilities included producing appealing multimedia content for the department’s marketing, communications, and social media efforts Spotlight students, speakers, faculty, and events through videos, photographs, and collaborative captioning.
As a production intern with One Pride Productions, my responsibilities included: helping produce video content for social media, broadcast, and internal use; Setting up and tearing down shoots in our studio; Record and uploading all press conferences to DetroitLions.com; and capturing high-quality audio using a boom mic on game days, both home and away.
London, United Kingdom | Summer
This program is designed to engage students in a variety of experiential opportunities that reflect their career interests and provide an academic component to enhance their professional development as well as broaden student understanding of contemporary British culture.