Panel of industry judges selected 50 top-tier multicultural students to participate in the upcoming Most Promising Multicultural Students Program.
WASHINGTON, DC– October 31, 2014 – On Tuesday, October 28, eight advertising industry professionals gathered at the American Advertising Federation (AAF) headquarters in Washington, DC to select the 2015 class of Most Promising Multicultural Students (MPMS). This year’s judging panel included representation from Carmichael Lynch, The CDM Group, Deutsch, Leo Burnett, Mary Kay, McCann Worldwide, Omnicom Group and Team Ignition Pancultural Marketing.
The MPMS Program is part of AAF’s initiative to promote diversity and inclusion within the industry. Each year, students from AAF’s 200 college chapters apply for the program, and a group of advertising professionals convene to select a new class of Most Promising students. Selected students participate in a four-day industry immersion program that includes professional development workshops, agency visits and a recruiter’s expo. Most Promising students represent the top of their class and have passionately demonstrated their future success in this industry through internships, leadership activities, community service, innovation and creativity.
“We selected from a pool of some of the most talented and diverse students I’ve come across,” said Christena J. Pyle, Diversity & Inclusion Supervisor with Omnicom Group and 2015 MPMS Judge. “When you start here, with this caliber of talent, what you end up with is a class of students that could very well change our industry. 2015 is not even ready!”
Creating an inclusive advertising industry beginning at the student level has been a priority of the AAF for nearly two decades. AAF offers a myriad of programming that promotes and advances multiculturalism within the advertising industry.
For more information on the Most Promising Multicultural Students Program, please visit our website or contact Kai Jones at kjones@aaf.org.
AAF’s 2015 Most Promising Multicultural Students
| Bogart AvilaChapman UniversityAtikh Bana
Grand Valley State University Dominique Brown Ithaca College Seannell Chambers Lindenwood University Vanessa Charcas University of Central Florida Jasmine Cho Chaminade University of Honolulu Meghan Cole Ringling College of Art and Design Kendra Croft University of Texas at Austin Jennifer Dillon Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge Jewell Donaldson Columbia College Chicago Ebony Francis University of Missouri-Columbia Aura Franco University of Florida Maritza Hayes University of Nebraska Lincoln Peter Inouye Brigham Young University Brittany Johnson Florida State University Reshma Kharawla Pace University Jairus Steven Kiyonaga Hawaii Pacific University Remi Kohno Chaminade University of Honolulu James Ledesma Washington State University Jackson Liang Baruch College Sarah Lister Johnson & Wales University Jenna Liu University of Illinois Jerry Louis City College of New York Jacqueline Lozano Pennsylvania State University Marquis Mahoney Howard University |
Aizya McGeePennsylvania State UniversityEvan Miguel
University of Missouri-Saint Louis Liana Miller University of South Carolina Alexis Mood University of South Carolina Marisa Moody Elon University Helena Murphy Ithaca College Emily Myers Syracuse University Victoria Nguyen Pace University Lisa Papada Art Institute of California-San Diego Jake Quintanilla Texas Tech University Andrea Rivera Louisiana State University Andrea Ruano Lindenwood University Alan Sanchez University of Illinois Madeline Schulte Washington State University Nicholas Sena Texas Christian University Amisha Sisodiya George Washington University Kristen Sugihara Art Institute of California-San Diego Anthony Tovar University of Missouri-Columbia Erin Turner Elon University Miles Ukaoma University of Nebraska Lincoln Saumya Wali University of Texas at Austin Juwan Wedderburn University of Oregon Jordan Wheeler Brigham Young University Valeen Wilson University of Central Florida Andrea Windmeyer Texas State University-San Marcos |