Public Relations

As local celebrities and prominent members of the Miami community made their way down the red carpet at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital It’s All About the Kids Gala, students in the Public Relations Experience Program made sure every aspect of the event ran smoothly.  Guests were greeted by PREP students’ smiling faces as they entered the JW Marriot Marquis Hotel for the gala on Saturday, Oct. 1. The event raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which provides medical care to sick children regardless of their family’s ability [...]

Miami Children’s Health Foundation (MCHF)’s 5th Annual Fashion Gives Back was a night of high-fashion and high-energy for all students of University of Miami’s Public Relations Experience Program (PREP). The event was held at the exquisite Moore Building, located in the heart of Miami’s Design District, on Thursday, Sept. 29.  Throughout the event, PREP students managed social media accounts, assisted photographers and videographers, as well as aided in the media check-in process. PREP newcomers Micaela Rooney and Abby Hemenway worked one-on-one with event photographers to collect names of those in [...]

University of Miami’s PREP students spent Saturday night, Sept. 24, working the Annual Special Olympics Sponsor an Athlete Awards Dinner Gala at the JW Marriot Marquis marking the first time PREP has teamed up with the organization. PREP students assisted photographers and worked with social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Periscope, for cocktail hour, the R-word table, and the red carpet. Of the 10 students working the event, this was the first gala for all but the two managers, Kaley Surman and Brianna Valdivia. “I really enjoyed the [...]

University of Miami PREP students had an early yet rewarding start to their Saturday by assisting the staff of the South Florida office of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with its annual St. Jude’s Run/Walk to End Childhood Cancer at the Miami-Dade County Fair Grounds on Sept. 24. St. Jude is one of the original partners for the PREP program and, as such, students in the course have been gaining valuable experience with the organization for more than six years. For the Run/Walk, PREP students assisted with runner check-in, social [...]

Comic Cure’s Mr. Multiple Personality was arguably one of the best and most important shows as it marked the one-year anniversary of the organization, and the School of Communication’s PREP students were part of the celebration on Friday, Sept. 16 at Miami Theater Center in Miami Shores. “It was a night of non-stop laughter,” according to managing director and co-founder of Comic Cure, Benjamin Leis. “Our year culminated with an incredible anniversary show and we, once again, could not have made this night possible without PREP. It was a perfect [...]

Students enrolled in the Public Relations Experience Program (PREP) ended their first week of classes with a night of laughter in Miami Shores. Comic Cure’s Ladies Night OUT was on Aug. 26 at the Miami Theater Center and served as the backdrop for a fun way to kick off a PREP semester filled with events throughout South Florida.  “Over the past year we’ve hosted more than a dozen events benefiting twenty charities and more than 140 comedians. That kind of impact can’t be done alone,” said Benjamin Leis, Comic Cure [...]

On Friday, April 15, the Palmetto Bay community experienced the very first outdoor comedy festival, right in their backyards at Ludovici Park. The festival was hosted by Comic Cure, an organization built on promoting comedy in Miami by showcasing local talent and raising funds for local charities. For this particular show, a portion of every ticket sale benefited the Everglades Foundation. Brothers Benjamin and Richy Leis created Comic Cure in September 2015 and have since hosted comedy shows all throughout South Florida benefiting a wide variety of charities including The [...]