Class Year: 2015
Major: Public Relations and Music & Business
Hometown:
Wadsworth, Ohio
Internship
organization: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Corporate
Headquarters -
Reagan National Airport (DCA)
Location:
Washington, D.C.
Internship
Responsibilities: My duties consisted of writing internal
communications content for 1,500 employees, facilitating media relations calls
and overall media outreach, assisting with airline events such as the inaugural
Air China and Frontier Airlines launches at Dulles International Airport,
creating media advisories and press releases, photographing all airport events
both internal and external, creating and posting social media content, creating
a publicity plan for MWAA's Summer Jazz Series, presenting a summer-wide
research project on social media dashboards and creating video content
published on public and internal airport monitors.
What I Learned: The
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority gave this aviation nerd the most
professional and exhilarating experience of a lifetime. From experiencing
runway checks and air traffic tours, to taking media calls with The Washington
Post and NBC; I was completely engulfed in every communications function this
quasi-government/corporate organization has to offer. This organization
oversees over 1,500 employees, two airports that each occupies over 20 million
passengers a year, the 14 mile Dulles Toll Road and Washington, D.C.'s Silver
Line Metro project. I was placed in the main Communications Office that manages
every aspect of the organization as previously stated. The overarching theme of
this summer in regards to what I've learned is simply finding my passion to
pursue aviation based communications opportunities post-graduation.
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