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My Mental Health or my Career? Why I Left Journalism
After less than two years in the journalism world, I called it quits. Why you may ask? My mental health begged me to. When I chose a major in college, I was undecided at first, not knowing exactly what ...
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AWC members share their “Why”
If you’ve been thinking about joining the Association for Women in Communications, now is the time. As a member of AWC, you can Connect, Engage, Advance, and Lead alongside fellow women leaders and communicators. But don’t just take our ...
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Planning, Emails, & Zoom: Navigating a Student Organization During a Global Pandemic
When I applied to be president of Illinois State University’s student chapter of the Association for Women in Communications, I knew the amount of responsibility I was taking on, but I had no idea the challenges myself and my ...
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Navigating our Way Through the New Normal
This school year is definitely like no other. Usually, we just have to worry about stuff like our class schedules and getting our homework done, but we now have much bigger things to worry about such as social distancing, ...
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Student Chapter Spotlight: Texas Tech University
The Association for Women in Communications (AWC) here at Texas Tech is a national organization that helps connect, engage and further women in the communication field. We help women find internships and connect with our local professional chapter here in ...
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Coping by Compartmentalizing vs. the Messy Mind
As communicators, many of us are, by nature, compartmentalizers. We tailor our messaging to distinct stakeholders and media channels. We are internal or external, proactive or reactive. We structure messages in palatable chunks. If you’re like me, compartmentalizing is not ...
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Thriving Organization, Thriving Members: A Coach’s Perspective
I started attending my local AWC chapter several years ago. I went to a few meetings to see what it was like. I wondered, who were these ‘women in communications’? What did it mean or include to be ‘in ...
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#Pandemic Pregnancy – Seeing the Light in the Darkness
One morning I’m stressing about how hard all 3 of my jobs are getting because I’m getting so far along, the next morning I’m told I need to work from home and stay quarantined before the official quarantine started. ...
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Meet Trending’s Editor!
Meet Ariana Andrade Ariana is a recent first-generation graduate from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University majoring in Public Relations. She was President of the Association for Women in Communications student chapter on campus and ...
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Equal Rights: We have come a long way baby, but we are not there yet
Have we really come a long way baby or as far as we think we have? Are each of us too busy and preoccupied to realize what women still do not have? When I think EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT (ERA), I ...
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