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Going with the Flow: School and Work-Life Balance for Media Professionals is a series of empowering conversations tailored around topics such as: mental health, wellness, and lifestyle for students.Â
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still many aspects of our lives that may seem difficult to adjust to. For many, nothing has been easy this past year. Along with feeling disconnected from friends and loved ones, being home most of the time and having to continue school and work in such an unfamiliar format, it can feel almost impossible to maintain a regular wellness routine and healthy work-life balance.Â
Successful people value themselves highly and invest in their well-being. Let’s kick off the semester by embracing self-care and wellness to achieve optimum health and life goals. Self-development and self-awareness are positive patterns of behavior that define your success. Field practitioners and media professionals will share ways to promote and cultivate your own physical and mental wellness, while growing your personal brand. This is an invitation to commit to caring for ourselves and to caring for one another, too.
Speakers:
• Dr. Kortni Alston, TV Reporter, and News Director turned TEDx speaker, and Transformational Trainer
• Linda Duggins, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Edelweiss by Above the Treeline and Former Director of Publicity, Hachette Book Group USA
• Jessica Senecal, Holistic RN, HNB-BC and Co-Founder, Yoga Tribe Brooklyn, an independently-owned, Black and women-led business.
This panel is organized by Neyda Martinez, Interim Director of the Media Management Program & Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Media Management and co-produced by Shreyas Venkatanathan, MS Media Management '21.
Presented by the School of Media Studies at the Schools of Public Engagement.
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The graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education programs of the School of Media Studies combine theory, research, production, and management studies, preparing students to succeed in a complex and rapidly changing media and communications landscape. Studying in the world’s media capital, New York City, our students acquire critical insights and cutting-edge technical skills in rigorous topical courses taught by leading scholars and industry professionals. Our alumni find fulfilling careers in a wide range of fields, from film and media-making to media research and scholarship to media company management and entrepreneurship.
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A happiness scholar whose expertise includes overcoming hardship, and building resilience, while fostering well-being at work, Dr. Kortni Alston is a TV Reporter, and News Director turned TEDx speaker, and Transformational Trainer. Her interdisciplinary research combines positive psychology, business administration, and media management. Host of the podcast, Kourting Happiness, and founder of the Kourting Happiness Movement, she is an assistant professor at North Carolina A&T State University’s Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. The Carter Center's Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism appointed Dr. Alston as a U.S. Advisory Board member. A long-time member of the National Association of Black Journalists with more than 15 years of media and journalism industry experience, she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, College of Journalism and Communication, an MBA from Morgan State University, and a BA in Mass Communication with a focus in Television Production from Delaware State University.
With a career that spans 25 years in the publishing industry, Linda A. Duggins believes that literature, the arts, community engagement, and reading are crucial elements to making the world a better place. For Edelweiss, as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, she develops and implements innovative and comprehensive strategies to engage publishing professionals, industry organizations, authors, and community partners. She provides insight into product and marketing strategy as well as supports the company’s cross-functional focus on dismantling racist and biased barriers by helping to provide opportunities for underrepresented beings while working to create inclusive and equitable spaces throughout the publishing industry. She is recognized for her achievements on behalf of Hachette Book Group USA where during her tenure she was Senior Director of Publicity and Director of Multicultural Publicity having successfully led the national campaigns for multiple genres, as well as countless breakout titles, including representing authors such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Misty Copeland, Leesa Cross-Smith, Pam Grier, Jane Goodall, and many others. Additionally, Linda is a Co-founder of the Harlem Book Fair, the nation’s flagship Black literary event promoting literacy and literary expressions with writers of the African Diaspora. She serves on the Board of Directors for the National Book Club Conference, whose mission is to advance literacy and knowledge through reading and dialogue. A native New Yorker, Duggins is also the President of the Board of Directors of the Queensbridge Scholarship Fund where she helps to facilitate continuing education scholarships for full-time college students who are residents of Queensbridge and Ravenswood Houses in Queens, NY.
Jessica Senecal is a Holistic RN, HNB-BC and co-owner of Yoga Tribe Brooklyn, an independently-owned and operated Black and women-led business. For over 20 years, Jessica Senecal supports individuals seeking healing and integrative mind-body-spirit connection and balance by merging skillful techniques from the past and present. She is also a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, a gentle hands-on approach that releases tensions buried deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance. Jessica Senecal strives to provide tools for everyone to share and enriches the lives of the public she serves at Yoga tribe Brooklyn.Â
