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Alice Shy

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Chatham chapter.

Alice Shy

Year: Sophomore

Hometown and what you love about it:

Miami, Florida. I lived there until I was 9 years old. My favorite memory of living here was our daily trip to beach in the summer and really, really good seafood.

Areas of Study and Why You Chose Them:

Marketing Major with a minor in film and digital technology. I aspire to work in an ad agency creating print digital advertisements.

You can choose one movie or TV character to give you personal, heartfelt advice – whenever you request it – for the rest of your life. Which character do you choose and why?

“You is Smart””You is Kind””You is Important”-Viola Davis playing Aibileen Clark in The Help (2011)

What advice do you have for the Class of 2018?

You want to do something? Just do it.

What was your favorite first-year memory?

Winning BOTC! #winning

A friend is visiting Pittsburgh, and you can only take them to do one thing. What would it be?

The Warhol Museum.

  Mara Flanagan is entering her seventh semester as a Chapter Advisor. After founding the Chatham University Her Campus chapter in November 2011, she served as Campus Correspondent until graduation in 2015. Mara works as a freelance social media consultant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She interned in incident command software publicity at ADASHI Systems, gamification at Evive Station, iQ Kids Radio in WQED’s Education Department, PR at Markowitz Communications, writing at WQED-FM, and marketing and product development at Bossa Nova Robotics. She loves jazz, filmmaking and circus arts.