Professional Writing Brochure November 2013 | Page 18

Jena DONLIN
Senior Manager of Business
Operations
at Reddit, Inc.
New York, New York
Jena Donlin is a 2009 graduate
and she now lives in New York City
working as the senior manager
of business operations at Reddit,
Inc. Donlin works with advertising
for Reddit.com, with responsibilities including negotiating advertisement deals,
creating and maintaining pro?table ads, and working with the merchandise and
app development departments. She says her favorite part of her job is meeting
Redditers from all over the world at conferences. She credits her success to the
communication skills she developed in the Professional Writing program and
advises future students to “focus on creating relationships, focus on academics,
and think of the time you’re investing as an opportunity to learn from those around
you.”

Alexandra KIRSCH
Director of Interactive
for Media Connect
New York, New York
Alexandra Kirsch graduated from
the Professional Writing program in
2010 and relocated to New York City
to begin her career. She now works
for Finn Partners as director of the
Interactive division at Media Connect, where she oversees a staff of digital publicists
on digital book publicity campaigns, brings in new business, and retains lo ngterm clients. She loves the sense of collaboration that exists in her office because
“publicity gets a bad rap for being cutthroat.” Kirsch knew she wanted to enter the
digital publicity industry and says she would have never gotten where she is today
so quickly if it weren’t for the Professional Writing program.