Foundation & Inclusion
The Foundation: Year In Review
In 2019 we achieved great success with your support and commitment. The Foundation measures its impact several ways, by the number of people who benefit from our initiatives, transformations that occur as a result of our programs, and ultimately, how we increase the diversity within the talent pipeline to reflect all communities. Take a look…
Read MoreMeet The Fellows: Jessica McGlory
FutureIsFemale award winner, Jessica McGlory has entered a new role as Head of Growth at Verb. Before Verb Jessica lead paid social efforts as the Director of Paid Social Media Marketing at Bombas, the digitally native apparel company focused on making the most comfortable socks in history and giving back to those in need.…
Read MoreFoundation's Summer Internship – Apply NOW!
Looking for something to do this summer? Ready to get a jump-start on your career? The AD Club of NY has the way! The Foundation’s Summer Internship Program is designed to provide students in their junior, senior, and graduate years of college an opportunity to intern at one of the AD Club’s member agencies or…
Read MoreMeet The Fellows: Claire Mirisola
Claire Mirisola is an award-winning Lead Copywriter with nearly a decade of experience. She studied Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History before landing at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she earned her dual degrees in Communication Design and Advertising Design. A conceptual thinker, Claire honed her craft working on innovative social…
Read MoreMeet The Fellows: Jessy Jacques
Jessy Jacques is a vision-driven change agent with a career-long record of digital advertising and marketing for leading organizations. She possesses a proven talent for aligning business strategy and objectives, with established digital advertising and marketing management paradigms, to achieve maximum operational impacts with minimum resource expenditures. Presently, Jessy is a Senior Account Manager…
Read MoreMeet The Fellows: Nandini DasGupta
Nandini DasGupta is a Principal in Gartner L2, managing the research team for L2’s CPG practice, leading a team of research associates focused on developing and delivering digital insights for marketing leaders and practitioners. Her team covers a variety of categories including personal care, home care, food and beverages. Prior to her current role,…
Read MoreInside the Fellowship: The Scoop on PwC "Night School"
What does Executive Training look like to you? In the ACNY i’mPART Fellowship, it goes beyond leadership and innovation. For our Fellows, executive training looks like long nights, deep reflection and extensive planning—in short, at the AD Club, its looks like PwC. Every year our partners, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) lends its advisory services to a new…
Read MoreMeet The Fellows: Danielle Hemsley
Danielle V Hemsley aka Danie, is a left & right brain thinker, motivated by a fascination with human behavior and a love of data that enables her to uncover human truth and ‘the why.’ Danie is passionate about Diversity & Inclusion and believes that marketing and media when used properly can have a positive…
Read MoreMeet The Fellows: Taylor Yarbrough
Taylor Yarbrough was born and raised in New Orleans and has lived in Houston, Atlanta, and New York City. As a graduate of Spelman College, Taylor earned her BA in Psychology. Her introduction into the advertising world came as an intern at Ogilvy & Mather in NYC where she worked on the British Airways…
Read MoreMeet The Fellows: Ashlea Ramirez
Mexican-American Tejana and proud chingona, Ashlea Ramirez has worked on bringing various campaigns from brief to reality as a project manager – gaining experience from Wieden+Kennedy, and prior to that DigitasLBi.As a product of the Advertising Club of New York’s I’mPart Fellowship, 4A’s Multicultural Advertising Internship Program, and AAF’s Most Promising Multicultural Students Award,…
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