Halle Nelson

As a mom to two young children, a precocious preschooler and a toddler under two years old, I am currently in the pleasant parenting space of having near total control over my children’s digital and media exposure. As empowering as it is to filter and influence my children’s digital and media consumption, I know this stage will be short-lived. Already, my son comes home retelling the plots of shows he’s never seen, and even naming the characters and details of their universes, just from what he...

Working as the Communications Manager at one of Wellington’s Motion Design Companies Fox & Co. was an especially advantageous internship for me. I would organize the company’s social media calendar across several different social networking platforms, created templates for future reference, scoped out marketing opportunities domestically and internationally, wrote posts for the company’s blog, wrote and edited text for the company’s SOWs, sat in on storyboarding and conceptualizing meetings for advertising projects, and much much more!

It wasn’t that I saw something pretty. It’s that, in the wake of such splendor, I felt humbled. My surroundings have reinforced that I am in the midst of something greater than myself. That the world is so much bigger than I typically give it credit for, and in the grand scheme of things I am only a small part. The privilege is that I get to witness it firsthand.