NY WICI conference

Yesterday I attended New York's Women in Communications Foundations annual student career conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. This event is an amazing networking opportunity that I wish I knew about a long time ago. This was my second year attending and I was certainly looking forward to Debbye Turner Bell's ("The Early Show" correspondent on CBS) and Kate White's (Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan...duh!) speeches. You sign up in advance for 3 panels in fields like Communications, magazines, advertising, broadcast journalism, newspapers, marketing, public relations, etc. and you get to ask experienced people in those fields questions about their career, their particular publications and advice on how to get your feet wet.

I managed to squeeze my way in through the crowds of media students after the panels and spoke with the account manager from Cosmo and a reporter for Vanity Fair. I even chatted with the president of my sister's public relations firm, Stanton-Crenshaw! NY WICI is a great way to get business cards and contact information for internships or even future job opportunities.

Talking to a reporter from Variety


Can you spot me in the crowd?

Photos from NYWICI

Beauty Sale!!!

This is a picture captures only a few tables of our sale, before it was ransacked.

Today was our MUCH anticipated beauty sale. I learned they haven’t had one since May and it sure looked like it. We had over 50 bins filled to the brim with beauty products as well as 6 huge dumpsters packed with boxes of more stuff. A dozen of the staff and interns helped divide everything into categories. It was an all-day project and the amount of things we had to organize was pretty intimidating. The fashion closet also had a good amount of their items to put up for sale. 15 tables, 4 racks of clothing and hundreds of boxes later, we finally finished organizing everything within 4 hours.

With a simple e-mail, word spread that our beauty sale was today. People lined up all around the perimeter of the floor to get into the sale. People were pressed up against the glass doors to try to get a peek at the goodies we had inside. It was clearly madness as they all stampeded into the conference room. 2 hours of the sale went by pretty fast and at the end of the day I was exhausted. I’m still not sure what the total amount we made was, but we estimated about $8,000. 100% of it always goes to a charity so I was glad to do my part help out!