Alexandra Abraham

Responsibilities

My responsibilities include assisting with planning, set up, hosting, and tear down of Community Events; Assisting with Communicating with local businesses and universities to establish partnerships and off-site events; Social media planning, execution, and posting; Marketing and distribution of promotional materials for events, and assisting with scheduling of Community Assistants when it comes to both on-site and off-site events.

Accomplishments

The chili cook-off community event felt like my biggest accomplishment. We had an awesome turn out for both those cooking and those tasting. The votes came in strong and there was a clear winner. The event required minimal set-up or clean-up, but was thoroughly enjoyed.

Learning experience

Scheduling is difficult!! Finding times that worked for staff, community members, sponsors, etc was very challenging and discovering the best ways to balance attendance outcomes was an well learned lesson.

What advice would you give?

Don't be afraid to learn in environments outside of your desired career path! Even if you know you want to work in sports or weddings, try some experiences in music or corporate. Exposing yourself to different fields will offer you so many new ideas you can apply anywhere.