SAN ANTONIO, TX (Oct. 5)  – Thirty-eight students interested in careers in communications learned the importance of networking at “Meet the Pros,” co-sponsored by the San Antonio Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications and San Antonio College’s Media Communications Department.

            The annual event that brings together students and pros took place Thursday, Oct. 1 in the visual arts center. This is the fourth year SAC has hosted the event.

            The students networked with 19 local professionals in journalism, broadcasting, advertising, public relations and multimedia/Web/graphic design.

            Students represented SAC, St. Philip’s College, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Trinity University, St. Mary’s University and Texas State University-San Marcos.

Students were able to seek advice from professionals in two career areas during informal sessions.

            Pros from SAC included Digital Design Professors Richard Arredondo and Brook Rosser, graphic designer Isabelle Burke of Media Services, Service Learning research specialist Valerie McCoy, and Marianne Odom, chair of the Media Communications Department.

            Catherine Duncan, a former SAC journalism student, was the event coordinator.

Katrina Reid, public relations senior at Texas State University-San Marcos, asks a question of Natalie Gutierrez, director of publications and external affairs at the University of Texas Health Science Center, during Meet the Pros Oct. 1 in the visual arts center. Gutierrez is a former journalism student of this college.
Photo by Destiny Mata/The Ranger.

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