1: THE DEGREE THAT TAUGHT ME TO TELL STORIES

I graduated without a marketing degree - and that turned out to be exactly the point. My path wasn't laid out in a syllabus. It was found in the work itself, through two internships that pulled me into worlds I hadn't expected to care so much about.

2: WHERE I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT

Two internships. Two completely different worlds. One taught me how to read a brand — the other taught me how to build one from the ground up.

AI Security Company - Marketing Intern: I learned to audit - dissecting companies' websites, social channels, and ads to understand what was working and what was quietly failing. It trained my eye to look past the surface and ask the harder questions about why a brand connects or doesn't.

Marketing audits - Competitive analysis - Social media analysis - Ad evaluation

Children's Advocacy Non-Profit - Head of Marketing I wasn't handed a playbook - I rewrote one. As Head of Marketing, I rebuilt a struggling framework from scratch: managing and creating social channels, designing graphics, editing short-form video, and showing up consistently for a cause that demanded nothing less.

Framework rebuild - Social media management - Graphic design - Short-form video - Consistency & brand voice