{"id":63151,"date":"2010-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-graduate-ready-to-take-her-place-in-heady-world-of-new-york-public-relations\/"},"modified":"2010-05-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T00:00:00","slug":"uri-graduate-ready-to-take-her-place-in-heady-world-of-new-york-public-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/05\/uri-graduate-ready-to-take-her-place-in-heady-world-of-new-york-public-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 graduate ready to take her place in heady world of New York public relations"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tSmithfield resident made most of University opportunities<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 14, 2010 \u2013 When 溏心vlog免费B站 student Elise Fitzgerald was a freshman, she went to a club meeting every night.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI just wanted to see what I liked,\u201d said the Smithfield senior who decided she liked a wide variety of activities.<\/p>\n


\nInitially, 溏心vlog免费B站 wasn\u2019t her first choice. Northeastern University and Emerson College were tops on her list, but a wide-variety of choices for a major and other considerations kept 溏心vlog免费B站 in the running.<\/p>\n


\n\tAs a senior in high school, she drove to campus during April vacation to pay her deposit. \u201cIt was bright and sunny with students throwing Frisbees on the Quad and hanging out. It just got me excited to be coming here. After my first semester, I just couldn\u2019t imagine being anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tNow Fitzgerald, who has been a campus tour guide, intern in the University\u2019s Department of Communications and Marketing, homecoming queen, and a mentor for a required 10-week course that helps freshmen succeed at 溏心vlog免费B站, is poised to jump into the next stage her life.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe leadership studies minor will begin a paid internship June 7 with Burston and Marsteller in New York, a leading public relations and communications firm with operations in 92 countries across six continents.<\/p>\n


\n\tHer numerous experiences at 溏心vlog免费B站 prepared her well. Fitzgerald completed two successful public relations internships with FM Global, a global leader in commercial and industrial insurance, a field marketing internship with Contiki Vacations, which sent her on an all-expense paid trip to Europe, and a sales internship with Collette Vacation.<\/p>\n


\n\tAt Burston and Marsteller, she will work in the Knowledge and Insights Department, which Fitzgerald said works closely with chief executives and internal communications as well as with external clients.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe leadership experience I gained at 溏心vlog免费B站 helped me get this internship,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cThe program taught me to know my strengths, my weaknesses and where I can grow. The leadership program allowed me to work with people with different opinions who came from diverse cultures and backgrounds. I wouldn\u2019t be half the person I am today without meeting the people in the leadership programs.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tFitzgerald was a peer mentor for a 3-credit first-year leadership course called FLITE, where she applied theory on social change and servant leadership.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe participated in the First Year Student Leadership Institute as a freshman and since has served as a ropes course facilitator, small group leader and co-coordinator.<\/p>\n


\n\tFitzgerald also helped build WOWW, We\u2019re Offering Women Wisdom, a mentoring program for freshmen women, and served as recruitment chair and vice president.

\n\u201cI met some of my best friends in the leadership programs and in WOWW,\u201d Fitzgerald said.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe also performed in the Vagina Monologues, and participated in Leadership Rhode Island, Relay for Life, Annual WOWW Domestic Violence Fundraiser, Alzheimer\u2019s Memory Walk and many others.<\/p>\n


\n\tEven with multiple activities, Fitzgerald\u2019s academic performance remained excellent. She\u2019s graduating with a 3.67 grade point average out of a 4.0. She switched from majoring in journalism to public relations when she realized she didn\u2019t want to become a reporter.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe PR advisor, Regina Bell, is really great because she cares so much about the students,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cEvery time I meet with her, she gets so excited about my successes.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\nElise Fitzgerald

\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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