Women In Communications (WIC) is a professional organization at Syracuse University affiliated with the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Their aim is to bring together and empower young women as they enter the workforce. Through various events and campaigns, WIC strives to create a network of young professionals, ready to take on the communications industry. This November, Ilana Greenberg, GDUSA’s Creative Director, will join their illustrious group of speakers. Here is a look at the 2020 executive team who shared with us an inspirational quote or saying they live by.
NIA SHAW
CO-PRESIDENT
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2021
Major: Public Relations
Minor: Spanish and Psychology
“There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.”
– Sheryl Sandberg
CHELSEA STERN
CO-PRESIDENT
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2022
Major: Public Relations
Minor: Information Management and Technology
“I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do in my life seriously.”
– Audrey Hepburn
DANIELLE SLOVINSKY
VICE PRESIDENT
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2022
Major: Television, Radio, and Film
Minor: Information Management and Technology
“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.”
– Serena Williams
JULIA LAWRENCE
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2021
Major: Graphic Design
Dual Minor: Psychology and Information Management and Technology
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.”
– Maya Angelou
REGAN TALLEY
SECRETARY
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2021
Major: Public Relations
Minor: Finance
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”
– Shonda Rhimes
EMILY KARP
EVENTS CHAIR
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2023
Major: Television, Radio, and Film
Minor: Information Management and Technology
“Sometimes the best thing you can do is to not think, not wonder, not imagine, and not obsess. Just breathe, and have faith that everything will work out for the best”
– Hota Kotb
SYDNEY ROSENTHAL
PUBLIC RELATIONS CHAIR
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2022
Major: Public Relations
Minor: Sociology
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– A.A Milne
CANDICE BINA
CO-SOCIAL MEDIA CHAIR
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2022
Major: Television, Radio, and Film
Minor: Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises
“That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it’s a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.”
– Rachel Bloom
SOPHIA SODERLUND
CO-SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and ISchool
Class of 2023
Major: Television, Radio, and Film
“People change people”
– Cory Matthews
CLAIRE MERRILL
JUNIOR BOARD COORDINATOR
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2023
Dual Major: Advertising and Psychology
“Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.”
– Marian Wright Edelman
THANH HA (JESSICA) TRAN
PHOTO CHAIR
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2023
Major: Photojournalism
“Not fragile like a flower. Fragile like a bomb”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
GILLIAN FOLLETT
WEBSITE CONTENT COORDINATOR
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and ISchool
Class of 2022
Dual Major: Newspaper and Online Journalism/Information Management and Technology
“If people are doubting how far you’ll go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore”
– Michelle Ruiz
SARAH GREEN
WEBSITE DESIGN COORDINATOR
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2022
Dual Major: Public Relations, Information Management & Technology
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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