Intern Team

Abbie

Fall/Winter Marketing Intern

Abbie is a Senior at Simmons University The Boston native is studying Communications with a concentration in Marketing and Public Relations. She intends to pursue a MA in digital marketing once she graduates and wants to have her own social media consulting firm one day. Abbie is passionate about communications because of her curiosity about what drives consumer behavior, advertising techniques, and how media influences market strategy. 

Outside of university, Abbie enjoys watching her favorite show The Walking Dead, and re-reading her favorite series, a fictional fantasy collection called Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige.  Badgett’s hobbies include makeup artistry, hosting a gaming channel on YouTube, traveling, and taking long walks with her pug name Theo!

Erika

Fall/Winter Social Media Intern

Erika is currently a senior communications major at the University of Houston. Outside of school, she is the social media manager for multiple small businesses in her community. Erika works in Marketing and Creator Partnerships for the °1824 division at the Universal Music Group where she helps execute projects/campaigns for different artists. In addition to marketing, Erika also works with different influencers helping land them multi-genre campaigns within the UMG labels. If you can’t already tell, music is a large part of Erika’s life.

Most can consider her a “fangirl” of sorts starting off with the Jonas Brothers and now enamored with Kpop groups like BTS and Seventeen. She loves to hear what people are passionate about, even if it is something niche like certain bands! On the opposite end, disregarding people’s passions would be something she strongly dislikes. Outside of music you can find Erika crafting beaded jewelry, playing with her 4 fur babies, reading, drinking coffee, or attempting to teach herself Procreate. She was never an artistic child but growing up has found a love of teaching herself new crafts. If you ever catch her watching TV she more than likely will be watching some sort of anime or travel vloggers - her favorites being Haikyuu, Jujutsu Kaisen, and YouTubers Kara and Nate! As much as she loves travel vlogs it brings her a sense of nostalgia of a time when she was able to go back home to the Philippines to visit her family. She is a proud first generation Asian American with a large portion of her family still on the island. Her parents migrated here in the 90’s and have made a loving home filled with culture and memories.

Phyllis

Fall/Winter Marketing Intern

Phyllis is a junior attending the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is double majoring in Psychology and Statistics with a concentration in Applied Statistics. After college, she hopes to work in Market Research or Data Analytics where she would be able to analyze and predict trends. Phyllis is currently on both the editorial and social media team of her school’s online magazine, Her Campus, where she writes articles focused on the female college experience. She loves watching old Disney shows/movies and is currently watching Tron Uprising, and recently discovered her newfound love for cooking; especially banana oatmeal pancakes. Phyllis also enjoys going on long walks in the park, playing Badminton, and watching natural hair videos. One random/fun fact about her: she can sing the alphabet backward.