The past couple of months leading into Summer 17’ have been a whirlwind for me. Work has gotten more challenging and new leadership/mentorship opportunities have come to the surface. Honestly, I’ve been having a difficult time accepting and leaning into changes at work and in my personal life so I had no choice but to call on my set of mentors. Yes, I said set. I’ve learned early on in my career that it’s imperative to have more than one mentor to call on for advice. Now that I’m a mentor, I understand on a deeper level how mentorship impacts growth, development and success.
Read MoreCandice VanWye is a millennial creative currently living in San Francisco. In 2014 she created Brown Girl Bloggers a community and network for women of color who blog. She also hosts a podcast and creates content for her personal blog.
Read MoreA few months after I graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) I came to Google as a “New Grad” in August 2014. I’ve always been ambitious and I remember during my freshman year at Howard University, that someone told me “freshmen aren’t offered internships.” I took that as a personal challenge. I was so determined and ended up accepting an internship offer from Travelers Insurance as a Claim Leadership Development intern, completing not one but TWO summer internships.
Read MoreSo I began my career in media while at Spelman College. I had a few internships throughout college but my biggest opportunity came my Junior year when I got the chance to work for Cartoon Networks digital team at their headquarters in Atlanta. That's when I first realized that I had a passion for both television and digital media. After graduation in 2013, I moved to New York to start the NBC Page Program, a post grad program for those wishing to pursue a career in media. I then left NBC in 2014 and moved over to Showtime where I had the chance to help manage their e-commerce site for fans of their shows and their internal sales teams.
Read MoreActing has just about always been what I've pictured myself doing, and I have growing up in a family of creatives to thank for that. My father is a vocal coach who has toured both as a coach and as a performer with tons of artists. He also holds classes here in NYC, where countless aspiring artists from all disciplines and all over the world come nightly for training. He has sustained our family with this artist life, so I always knew a career in performing arts could be just as realistic as any other career.
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