What is Dean’s Student Circle?
The Dean’s Student Circle is a group of leaders dedicated to helping current and prospective students of the School of Communication. These leaders are seen as outgoing, courteous and diverse by the University of Miami community.
Members of DSC gain a number of benefits. The leadership experience shines on resumes, which works hand-in-hand with the networking opportunities afforded by the Student Circle program.
How to Join
Send your complete application to gab119@miami.edu. Complete applications include a resume, a letter of recommendation, and at least a 3.0 GPA in both the SoC and UM. Selected students will be asked to participate in a short interview.
All applicants must be in good standing and students in the School of Communication.
Responsibilities
New student transfer orientation activities (at the beginning of each semester)
Special Events (including, but not limited to: Open House, Family Weekend, Communication Week, guest speakers, panels, etc.)
Participate in outreach and recruitment
Giving a tour once a week or once every other week based on the student’s schedule/availability
Help the Admissions, Academic and Alumni Office during advising times
Assist in phone campaigns
Mentoring of Freshmen
Peer Counseling
Help students as they look for internships or jobs, promote events
Current Members
Sarah Topf
Hometown: Miami, Florida
Major: Motion Pictures and Spanish
Minors: Ecosystem Science and Policy
Favorite Internship: I’m about to start my first internship this summer at Sun Sentinel’s video production department
Extracurricular Activities: Filmmaking, animal rescue, and martial arts
Favorite Quote: “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart” – Roy T. Bennett
Kailah Anderson
Hometown: Chesapeake, Virginia
Major: Advertising
Minors: Marketing
Extracurricular Activities: Orientation Fellow, model coordinator, and cane for a day host
Favorite Quote: “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” – Beyoncé
Emma Finn
Hometown: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Major: Creative Advertising and Psychology
Minors: Creative Advertising and Psychology
Favorite Internship: Communications Intern at Axalta Coating Systems
Extracurricular Activities: Chi Omega sorority, Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity, American Marketing Association
Favorite Quote: “In baseball and in business there are 3 types of people. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” – Anonymous
Esther Animalu
Hometown: Queens, New York
Major: Communication Honors-Broadcast Journalism and Political Science
Minors: Media Management and International Studies
Favorite Internship: Oath Inc. (Formerly known as AOL Inc.)
Extracurricular Activities: The Miami Hurricane, National Association of Black Journalists, Society for Professional Journalists, Model United Nations, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, TEDxUmiami, African Students Union, Empowered Youth, G.O.O.D (Girls of Outreach and Diversity)
Favorite Quote: “Journalism can never be silent: That is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.” – Henry Anatole Grunwald
Kara Roberts
Hometown: Homestead, Florida
Major: Public Relations
Minors: Marketing, Advertising
Favorite Internship: Keybridge Communications
Extracurricular Activities: Graphic design writing
Favorite Quote: “If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.” – Anonymous
Jennifer Hudak
Hometown: Miami, Florida
Major: Media Management
Minors: Marketing & Broadcast Journalism
Favorite Internship: Being a Media Team Manager at Shake-A-Leg Miami
Extracurricular Activities: Photography, running marathons and watching football (go canes!)
Favorite Quote: “Bloom where you are planted.” – Anonymous
Justin Stevens
Hometown: Livingston, New Jersey
Major: Broadcast Journalism and Media Management
Minors: Marketing
Favorite Internship: ABC’s Match Game
Extracurricular Activities: UMTV, Resident Assistant, UM Athletics
Favorite Quote: “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get backup.” – Vince Lombardi
Tyler Walsh
Hometown: Reading, Massachusetts
Major: Broadcast Journalism & Psychology
Minors: Film
Extracurricular Activities: UMTV, Calling Canes, National Broadcasting Society
Favorite Quote: “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chelsea Lovell
Hometown: New York City, New York
Major: Electronic Media
Minors: Public Relations and Dance
Favorite Internship: E! News in LA
Extracurricular Activities: Sunsations dance team, UMTV Executive Producer, Student Government School of Communication Senator, ODK honor society executive board member.
Favorite Quote: “Everything happens for a reason” -Anonymous
Julia Barger
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Major: Communication Studies
Minors: Media Management, Marketing, Music Business
Favorite Internship: Working with fitness by the sea this summer.
Extracurricular Activities: Hurricane Productions, Panhellenic Association, Media Management Association, ‘Cane Records
Favorite Quote: “If you can look at yourself in the mirror at the end of the day and say you tried your hardest then regardless the outcome, you did well” -Glenn Barger
Jay’La Evans
Hometown: Saint Stephen, South Carolina
Major: Motion Pictures
Minors: Broadcast Journalism
Extracurricular Activities: Basketball, Soccer, Shoes Customizing, Filmmaking and Photography
Favorite Quote: “Color is descriptive, but black and white is interpretive.” -Elliott Erwitt
Shane Shakoor
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Major: Motion Pictures
Minors: Strategic Communication; Communication Studies
Favorite Internship: Operations & Special Projects Intern at Consumer Credit Counseling Services
Extracurricular Activities: Associate Producer of UMTV’s ‘The Culture’ PR Chair of Sociology/Criminology Club; United Black Students; NAACP; Horizons Orientation Mentor
Favorite Quote: “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama