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BY ADDIE HEDGES | PHOTOS BY ZACHARY DEPIORE, ABIGALE BLASHINSKY, NINA BURCHFIELD AND RACHEL CALVIS DESIGN BY JULIA GREENWOOD
Four Ohio University students share their internship experiences. MAY 2021 GRADUATE MAJOR: MEDIA ARTS AND STUDIES INTERNSHIP: KEY TALENT MANAGEMENT, LOS ANGELES Key Talent Management, or KTM, is a talent agency with locations in Los Angeles and New York City. KTM works with aspiring actors, directors, writers, musicians and influencers. DePiore was able to help the company’s clients find auditions that he and his supervisors felt would best fit their skill set. “It was so ... important for me to see the business side [and] how the business actually operates, how people actually get connections and get jobs, and I think a talent agency is really good for that,” DePiore says. “It’s a really good starting point for learning the businessoriented aspect of the creative profession.”
ZACHARY DEPIORE
YEAR: THIRD-YEAR SENIOR MAJOR: JOURNALISM STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERNSHIP: MISS UNIVERSE ORGANIZATION
ABIGALE BLASHINSKY
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Blashinsky was selected as one of two OU students to intern with the Miss Universe Organization in New York City after her sophomore year. She was responsible for handling PR and social media. “I was able to be a part of the 70th Miss Universe Competition,” Blashinsky says. “We went to Eilat, Israel, and it was incredible. Another thing that I was really happy to be a part of [was] the 70th Miss Universe [which was] called the Green Miss Universe because [the organization is] trying to make it as sustainable as possible. [It] was really great to be ... a part of that community where we all have the same mindset.”
