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CLAIREMONT INTERNS: INTRODUCING SAM HALLE

October 22, 2013January 31, 2023 Margot HorganBlog, The Clairemont TeamClairemont Team interns, Internships, PR, PR Agency, public relations internships, Raleigh Public Relations Agency, Raleigh Public Relations Internships1 Comment

Clairemont intern Margot Pien sat down with fellow intern Sam Halle to learn a little bit more about her. Help Margot and Clairemont welcome Sam!

This week, I sat down with Sam Halle, who is one of the two interns I am working alongside at Clairemont Communications this fall. After chatting about school, our past experiences and discovering a mutual love for otters (seriously – she adopted an otter for a year at a local park when she was a kid), I’m here to tell you what I learned about Sam.

A senior at UNC-Chapel Hill (Go Tar Heels!), Sam is a Journalism & Mass Communication major, with a concentration in public relations. She is also pursuing a second major in public policy and a minor in psychology. It’s hard to keep track of all the organizations and activities she has been involved in during the past few years, but they include:

Interning at Ogilvy & Mather in Chicago as a strategic brand planner this past summer (where she got to explore all of Chicago’s free concert offerings)
Interning in Vietnam last summer with a client of a venture capital firm
Serving as chapter director of Camp Kesem NC, which is a free camp run by UNC-CH and Duke University for kids with parents affected by cancer
Serving as PR chair of UNC-CH’s Order of the Bell Tower
Guest writing for the website “HelloGrief.org,” which she helped develop while in high school

Phew, that was quite the list. Is there anything that girl doesn’t do? Want to know more about Sam? Here are few more facts:

She’s from Richmond, Virginia (not too far from my Maryland home)
Sam loves the Dave Matthews Band and even met Dave himself after he came to UNC-CH to perform on a special taping of The Late Show With Jimmy Fallon (side note: the episode featured President Barack Obama – watch Jimmy and Barack Slow Jam the News)
She’s a vegetarian who, oddly enough, lives with 3 other vegetarians (and 2 meat-eaters)
She loves coffee, chocolate, concerts and rollercoasters
When Sam was a kid, she once got her long hair stuck in a vacuum while doing some chores. She had to cut her long locks off after that
She loved living in Vietnam during her internship last summer – she fondly recalls buying fruit on the street and visiting amazing beaches
Her family just got an adorable Golden Retriever puppy named Zuko (as in Grease’s Danny). I saw a photo and I can vouch that the puppy’s extremely cute

Clairemont Interns: Introducing Kate Fedder

July 25, 2013January 31, 2023 Margot HorganBlog, Public Relations, Raleigh PR Agency, The Clairemont TeamNC Public Relations Agency, North Carolina Public Relations Agency, PR, PR Intern, Public Relations, Public Relations Intern, Raleigh PR Agency, Raleigh PR Internships, Raleigh Public Relations Agency, Raleigh Public Relations Internships1 Comment

We’d like to formally introduce you to our fabulous summer intern, Kate Fedder. A rising senior at UNC-Chapel Hill (go Heels!), Kate is winding up to complete her final year in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication where she is majoring in Public Relations.

Prior to joining Clairemont, Kate studied abroad completing an honors semester in London while also interning at a London strategic public relations and communications agency working on client accounts like Fitness First, YooMoo, Rangemaster and Toyota.

With a love for fashion and an awesome go-getter attitude, Kate has been a natural fit at Clairemont and has been proving day-in and day-out that she has some serious PR chops. We have discovered that she has a special talent for creating meticulously organized and thorough media lists and has absolutely no fear when it comes to trying out some media pitching.

What more, you may ask? What other talents does Ms. Fedder possess? Well, she’s a natural at writing creative copy and can zero in on spelling and grammar errors that even the most seasoned editors could miss. But, probably most importantly, Billy – Clairemont’s top dog and CMO (chief motivational officer) – LOVES Kate, and that is something you just can’t learn in school.

Want to learn more about Kate? Check out this video she put together about work at Clairemont. Have some special advice for our summer intern? Please share below in the comments section!

Clairemont Interns: Introducing Natalie Baker

March 5, 2013January 31, 2023 Margot HorganBlog, The Clairemont TeamPR Internships, public relations internships, Raleigh Public Relations Agency, Raleigh Public Relations Internships2 Comments

Last but not least, meet Natalie Baker, Clairemont’s third member of the spring intern team!

A North Carolina native, Natalie was born and raised in the small town of Valdese – located in between Charlotte and Asheville. She loves sports, dogs, music and all things chocolate! After traveling Europe and studying abroad in Florence, Italy, this past summer, she considers traveling one of her favorite hobbies.

Natalie is a senior at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is a public relations major in the journalism school. Her previous experience with a local PR firm made her fall in love with the industry and the agency environment. She hopes to use her agency background to build and diversify her writing skills while here at Clairemont.

Other interesting facts about Natalie?

She loves coffee!
Her favorite TV show is Revenge on ABC.
Her iPod contains a plethora of classic rock music.
The last book she read was My Cross to Bear by Gregg Allman.
Even though she bleeds Carolina blue, her 12-year-old Weimaraner is named Durham.
She loves the mountains.
Her weird quirk? Her friends tell her she has a lot of facial expressions.

After completing undergrad in the spring, Natalie hopes to land a job with a public relations or marketing firm in North Carolina – preferably in the Triangle area.

Clairemont Interns: Introducing Erin Owenby

February 19, 2013January 31, 2023 Margot HorganBlog, The Clairemont TeamPR Internships, public relations internships, Raleigh Public Relations Agency, Raleigh Public Relations Internships2 Comments

This semester, we have three wonderful interns working with us at Clairemont and we can’t wait to introduce them to you. In a bit of a team building exercise, we asked our interns – Erin Owenby, Sydney McKinney and Natalie Baker – to interview each other and share some background information (and some fun facts!) with you, our blog readers. Sydney recently sat down with Erin and learned some pretty interesting facts…

Born and raised in Asheville, this North Carolina native bleeds Tar Heel blue. She loves going to sports games and is into country music, sweet tea and all things Josh Lucas (remember the hunk from Sweet Home Alabama?). But, those are just the quirks—this PR junkie also has a diverse background in the industry.

A public relations major at UNC Chapel Hill, Erin has done it all! She’s organized events for several nonprofits, coordinated logistics for a wedding planning agency and has somehow managed to work two part time jobs in the meantime.

Want to know more about Erin? Here are some of the details:

She loves cheese. Parmesan’s her favorite food—she eats it daily.
She is currently reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen for her third time. Why? Because she’s a die-hard classics fanatic.
In her spare time, she likes to paint furniture. Most recently, she painted a shelf for her room in coral and cream.
This girl loves to exercise! She goes to spin class every week at 6:30 in the morning, has run a marathon and is training for another half marathon in February.
She claims to be a tomboy. BUT she wears purple dresses and bows in her hair to Clairemont.
More fun facts? She’s a dog person; loves Mexican food; dreams of going to Europe; drives a stick shift; would choose the mountains over the beach any day; enjoys salty food more than sweet; and has a slight obsession with Snapchat.

So where does Erin see herself in the next year? Working in an agency setting and living in a large city—preferably New York or Washington D.C. But that’s not all. Erin’s wants to remain involved with Building Tomorrow, a nonprofit that raises money to help build primary schools for underprivileged children in Uganda. In fact, she’s going there this summer to visit schools that she helped raise support for over the past three years.

As for her time at Clairemont, Erin is interested in learning more about the client-agency relationship, applications of public relations in real world scenarios and the ins and outs of what it takes to be a successful agency. So, cheers to Erin and our adventure here at Clairemont! I can’t wait to see what this semester has in store for both of us!