Hannah Eastham: When are you graduating?
Courtney Monahan, public relations senior: in December.
Eastham: What are you working on right now in preparation for your last semester?
Monahan: I’m working a lot with an oil company. I do (public relations) for them. It’s a small business called Aqua Ocean Transport.
Eastham: What do you for them on a daily basis?
Monahan: I do press kits and different deliverables, so I get to get my feet wet in the industry, which is great. Are you a senior?
Eastham: No. I’m a junior.
Monahan: When you’re a senior, you have all your big classes with your major projects. So, I’m wrapping all of those up.
Eastham: What projects are you working on right now for your upper-level communication classes?
Monahan: I’m in PR Campaigns. So, we have to do a real PR campaign for an actual organization and present it to the client. So we did that for a non-profit organization, Kick Start. Chuck Norris is the one who started it all back in the ’90s, and now it’s helping kids who are in low income neighborhoods, but they’re trying to expand it to go to all different kinds of middle schools. They want kids to learn strong-willed character and become better people. They uplift them through martial arts.
Eastham: Did you get to participate in any of that?
Monahan: I got to watch. It was adorable. They’re pretty hardcore.
Eastham: The kids are pretty hardcore?
Monahan: Yeah. It’s pretty amazing. I was impressed, and their passion for it is really inspiring. It was a lot of fun because we weren’t just doing something corporate; we got to give back to the community.
Eastham: How many were in your group?
Monahan: Six people.
Eastham: Did you work well together?
Monahan: We did. We worked really well together.
Eastham: Have you ever had David McHam? He’s a communication professor.
Monahan: No, I haven’t.
Eastham: He always says that teams don’t work.
Monahan: I don’t know about that.
