Episode 22 -- Vivian Huang

Where Ya At? SDSU's Journalism and Media Studies podcast

Vivian Huang (2011-14) is an Associate Strategy Director at Media.Monks, managing brand and media strategies, with emphasis on end-to-end organic and paid social, digital marketing, and influencer marketing. She explains what it means to be the child of immigrants who forged her own identity in a creative field and how that can inspire other AAPI professionals to pursue their dreams as well.
Vivian provides a lot of practical advice for students on building their own brand on social media right now, a cheat sheet for what she looks for when hiring entry-level jobs, what it means to build a brand's relationship with the public, and how fun it was to take a new platform like Threads and create a different "voice" for brands.
She also tells us about her fantasy football podcast "Out of Your League," what it's like being a Commissioner of her office league with 108 people in it, winning eight titles in 11 years, and how starting a podcast can help students.

"Where Ya At?" is a podcast focused on the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University. Each week, during the Fall and Spring semesters, host Josh Suchon (Class of 1996) interviews alumni to learn about their experiences as college students, entering the workforce, key steps in their professional development, advice they'd give to current students, and details about how they covered a specific story.