Ashante Patterson MCM’20, SAS’18, a communications and marketing manager with the Mount Sinai Health System, is intent on raising awareness of health awareness that affects communities of color.
Associate Professor Charles Senteio is co-leading a study aiming to evaluate the effectiveness of social media ads promoting health information that are created by members of the communities they are targeting with the messaging, compared with ads created by government and health organizations.
They are working for Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, NJ.com-The Star-Ledger, NBC Entertainment, NBC Universal, and Terracycle. A few of SC&I’s former news writing interns reflect upon the ways their internship is tied to their professional success.
The MHCI program focuses on the communication, information, and media aspects of health-related policies and practices, and Rupa finds herself drawn to research and interpersonal health communication.
The SC&I-based HCI Lab studies human behaviors, creates new computing technologies, and evaluates the use of new systems in real world settings to address critical issues relating to healthcare, everyday wellbeing, and environmental sustainability.
The American Library Association scholarship will provide Pitter with financial support for graduate school, and many other benefits.
