Dara Bassin is a recent graduate of Florida State University with a double major in public relations and business management. During her time at FSU, she has been dedicated to putting her education into practice. She has held a job at Union Productions (UP), FSU’s student run programming for the last four years. In addition to working at UP, she has also held two internships, one as the corporate communications intern at VISIT FLORIDA and one as the public relations intern at Kidd Group. She recently accepted a job in Tallahassee as the Community Relations Manager at Earth Fare.

Dara is the College’s latest Garnet & Gold Scholar Society inductee.  The Garnet & Gold Scholar Society facilitates involvement and recognizes the engaged, well-rounded student who excels within and beyond the classroom in the areas of Leadership, Internship, Service, International, and Research.  A student who has met the criteria in three of the five areas and writes an approved Synthesis Reflection is eligible for consideration.   There have been 209 Overall program Inductees, 33 students from the College.  There are 423 currently enrolled G&G students, 45 from CCI.  For more information about Garnet & Gold Scholar society, visit: garnetandgoldscholar.fsu.edu