New Year, New Intern

Being The Silverman Group’s new intern and hearing about all the previous interns, I know I have big shoes to fill. I started with The Silverman Group a little under a month ago, and I find that I’m learning something new every time I come in to the office. I can’t believe in the last four weeks I have already created a media list, written a press release, put together clip packets, written a media advisory, helped staff an event, and am now embarking on contributing to the blog and pitching the media for Cirque du Soleil’s new show Alegria. I am so excited to be a part of The Silverman Group and all the work they do for the arts, and I can’t wait to see what I will learn in the next few months. Since everyone else shared a little about why they got in to public relations, I would like to give a little background on myself.

After high school I attended Marymount Manhattan College in New York City because I was sure I wanted to be an actress. I had performed in every play at my New Jersey high school and most of the time I could also be found in various community plays and performing in a show choir called Harmony. However, after not getting in to the theater program at Marymount the first time I auditioned, I had to reevaluate what I wanted to do- at least until I could audition again. It was during this time that I chose to take Communications classes because I knew I loved working with people. This turned out to be a great decision because I soon discovered I had a passion for this fascinating subject and I wanted to learn more. At the end of my first semester, I decided I wanted to pursue a career in radio, not theater, and that the best place to do this was Columbia College Chicago.

Much to my parent’s dismay I packed my bags and headed half way across the country to a city I’d only visited once, but felt I belonged in. I’ve been at Columbia for three years now and have since changed my major to public relations. Like most people, I feel like it took me a while to find public relations, but now that I have I can’t imagine myself doing anything else. I love that within the realm of public relations there are so many possibilities, and promoting what I’m passionate about such as theater, art, classical music, and film instills a sense of pride in my work. I will be graduating in May, and looking back on my four years of college I can’t believe how much I’ve grown and changed. I can’t wait to see what my professional career holds for me at The Silverman Group and beyond graduation.