OWN Academy

I met Karen Wong, the cofounder and communications director of On Air Collective, through the program organised by OWN Academy. She was one of the speakers at the event and I was very intrigued by her work and her words and thus I decided to introduce myself and ask if there was an internship opportunity in her company available for me. Thankfully they were accepting interns [...] Through working in both a marketing company and a magazine/ media outlet I was able to see both sides of the media industry which helped me a lot to understand how this professional world works. By working in a real life company I was also able to gain maturity and become more assertive and responsible of my actions and creative decisions. Through my work I was able to understand a lot of the logistics which go into these jobs which will be very helpful to me in the future.