Public relations professionals provide a variety of services for their clients, from writing press releases to planning special events and monitoring how a company is covered in the media.
PR includes corporate relations, which conveys business issues to employees, stock-holders and investors; community relations, which covers company interaction with local, national and international populations; and marketing communications, which ensures that a company and its products receive media coverage.
Here are what some recent public relations graduates are doing now:
Emily Irgang ’18
Global Communications Manager
Lime
Tanner Garza G’23
Account Associate
Real Chemistry
Michael Spencer G’22
Public Relations Coordinator
DKC
Donnetta Monk G’20
Communications Coordinator
Warner Bros. Discovery
Alyssa Gray G’19
Communications Associate
The Supreme Court of the United States
Marki Conway G’10
Vice President
PAN Communications
Lindsay (McCluskey) Maxwell G’08
Associate Professor of Public Relations
SUNY Oswego
Cierra Johnson
Director of Advance
U.S. Small Business Administration