USC has sent more athletes to the Olympic Games than any other U.S. university, and USC Annenberg is part of that proud tradition. This year, 13 USC Annenberg current students and alumni are among the 66 Trojans competing in Tokyo. Of course, USC Annenberg alumni have another Olympic tradition: reporting on the games as journalists.
Two graduates, Brad Luck and Fernando Hurtado, are...
There’s a lot you can learn about Brianna Seaberg from the video resume she uploaded to TikTok, the social media video sharing app. She is a communication major at USC Annenberg who is also minoring in cinematic arts at USC Cinema ; she has procured a slew of internships;...
Tommy Derken, a USC Annenberg alumnus who graduated in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in communication, spent the past year as a “hotdogger” driving the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile around the country — spreading “miles of smiles.” In this short video, Tommy shares how his experience at USC connecting communication, entertainment and film — working in the media center, shooting video for USC...
When it came time for Quentin Schaffer to attend high school, his parents opted to send him to a boarding school a few hours away from his Connecticut home. A self-admitted scrawny kid, Schaffer was bullied and decided to write a book about the experience. When his tormentors happened to find the pages, they tore them up, warning him to never write about them again. “I was amazed that my story...
As the child of refugees from Vietnam, Vanessa “Vanni” Le held two very important jobs for most of her youth: interpreter and advocate for her parents. “There are people out there who would judge my parents’ intelligence based on the way they speak English,” said Le, who was born in Orange County, California and moved to Tampa, Florida when she was 7. "It was really frustrating to see them...
Ever since she was a young girl, Megan V. Green was determined to create DIY hair care products using easily available kitchen provisions, like eggs and honey, that would help her embrace the beauty of her natural hair. By the time she was 13, Green was getting paid to style hair in her neighborhood; during her high school years, she spent time working in a salon. By 2015, she was sharing her...
Torod Neptune, chief communications officer and worldwide vice president of marketing for Lenovo Group LTD, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of computers, joins Dean Willow Bay for a candid Annenberg Intelligence conversation on Nov. 6, 2020, about purpose-driven brands and his call to address...
“ Adelante .” As Brenda Gonzalez walked through the halls of the iconic Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C, the word echoed in her memory. “Move forward,” she could hear her parents and grandmother telling her. She smiled. Gonzalez knew she belonged.
During that 2012 internship for Congresswoman Judy Chu, Gonzalez introduced herself to Chu’s communications director and expressed her...
