{"id":13416,"date":"2021-12-13T10:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T15:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=13416"},"modified":"2022-04-18T12:38:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:38:58","slug":"elora-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/news\/elora-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"From English to Publishing to Food Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elora Sullivan \u201911 found a way to combine her English<\/a> degree, her passion for food and wellness, her experience with cookbooks, and her social media skills: She currently freelances for a Penguin Random House-owned food media brand, TASTE<\/a>. She manages all of their social media platforms, builds emails with their robust email system, and creates recipe pages for the website. \u201cThe best part about my current role is being able to stay up on trends and new developments in the food world,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve always been passionate about food, and this has been an incredible opportunity to get an inside look.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before freelancing, Sullivan\u2019s career trajectory began in publishing. After graduating from URI in May 2011 \u2013 where the English department went \u201cabove and beyond\u201d her expectations, she says \u2013 Sullivan started graduate school at Emerson College in their Writing, Literature, and Publishing program with a focus on book publishing. She began an entry-level position in the trade division at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. \u201cThe position was in contracts,\u201d she says, \u201cwhich wasn\u2019t the most exciting, but I knew that my foot was in the door, and it gave me a good viewpoint of all positions.\u201d After three years, she moved to New York \u2013 \u201cthe heart of publishing\u201d \u2013 and began work as the Associate Manager of Social Media and Digital Marketing at Penguin Young Readers, later on managing the social media and email programs for the cooking and lifestyle imprints of Random House. She recently left this position and began freelancing for TASTE. \u201cI have the ability to make my own schedule and to work with an incredible, brilliant team,\u201d she says of the perks of freelancing.<\/p>\n

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As for current students interested in her career path, she gives this advice: \u201cIn today\u2019s economy, the most important thing is making connections and taking as many informational interviews as possible to learn more about the different roles in publishing.\u201d She also highlights the importance of getting practical, hands-on experience, noting, \u201cTaking an internship position in any department is a great way to get your foot in the door, and to get a firsthand look at how the different departments work with each other, and where you might find your best fit.\u201d And in the meantime, don\u2019t take for granted the ways in which your classes are best preparing you for the workplace: \u201cAs an English major, we read A LOT each semester,\u201d she says. \u201cLook back, I\u2019m not sure how I had it in me to write ten-page papers again and again, but truthfully, both of those skills came in handy\u2026 Being able to read quickly and efficiently (aka remember everything that happened!) and think critically about the text was crucial to many of my roles in publishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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