This summer, Sophia Danvers-Aarons will have worked for Cisco Systems for a decade, marking 16 years as a technology marketing professional. Her career’s journey started in the Communications program at Florida State, a formative time that she says helped her to develop the skills and the mindset to reinvent herself and innovate in her current role. …
CONTINUE READINGCategory: CCI News
News about the FSU College of Communication & Information
Meet COMM Alumna: Sophia Danvers Aarons
5 FSU & CCI women honored at KKG Leadership Academy
In 1996, Becky O’Brien graduated with a degree in Communication and jumped straight into her Master’s, which she received in 1997. Almost two decades later, she was invited to the Kappa Kappa Gamma National Leadership Academy this past September. At the leadership academy, she met five strangers. Those strangers, Sharon Snodgrass Pennekamp (’76), Andrea Stanford …
CONTINUE READINGMeet iSchool Alumnus: Erik Hazzard
Erik Hazzard is a man who goes for the (garnet and) gold. From his time at the School of Information at Florida State University to his leap to San Francisco and his start-up adventures – Erik is on the move. Tallahassee to San Francisco While studying in the Information Technology program at FSU, Hazzard worked …
CONTINUE READINGCOMM Team Welcomes New Staff
The Spring semester brings new staff to the College of Communication & Information’s COMM Team. Marquel Nakashima Marquel is a junior in the Information Technology program in the School of Information. She joins the team as an Assistant Webmaster and is responsible for web content, web content and app development. Ingrid Patino Ingrid is a …
CONTINUE READING20 Questions with Christie Koontz
What was your first job? My first job was at a public library in Jacksonville, FL near my school. My father had lost his job, and as the youngest I wanted to help. So I walked into the library the summer after the ninth grade (fudged about my age) and worked through twelfth grade summer …
CONTINUE READINGNew iSchool Classes: Spring 2015
The Spring 2015 semester in the School of Information brings two new classes to students. Social and Organizational Analytics with Warren Allen introduces students to the concept of analytics, the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data, and to the knowledge and tools necessary to apply analytics to fields like IT, Business, Communications, Sociology …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Spark Campaigns help student initiatives
SparkFSU is a new way to fund projects at Florida State University. The fundraising program allows faculty and their students to initiate and design innovative and entrepreneurial projects with financial support garnered from alumni and friends. Within the College of Communication and Information, there have been three Spark campaigns launched in the last year. Chronos: …
CONTINUE READING