Meet: Shadaylah Byrd, Intern at Seventeen Magazine
What do you get when you combine Seventeen, Ebony and a girl with a lot to offer? You get Shadaylah Byrd. Shadaylah, “Day,” is a junior at Kean, majoring in communications.
Day feels that interning is a phenomenal experience. During her internship with Ebony during Fall 2012, she organized the fashion and beauty closets of the latest pieces of fashion used in the magazines. She also wrote an article which was published for Ebony. Check out her article here: http://www.ebony.com/photos/style/hot-nail-of-the-week-956. She also assisted in photo research and attended events such as the New York City’s Fashion Week. Her experience with Fashion Week to her felt like entering a new planet.
“I’ve always dreamt what it would be like. After getting to go to these shows, I became more inspired to follow my dreams, which is to eventually work at a fashion company,” said Day.
This semester Day is once again interning, except this time she’s at Seventeen Magazine. She is responsible for research, location scouting and propping for shoots. She has edited and taken pictures of celebrities such as Jeannette McCurdy from iCarly and has met cool singers like Hunter Hayes. Day says that she sees celebrities walk around all the time.
On various occasions Day has been asked if her internship is similar to that of, “The Devil Wears Prada,” and luckily she has not had that encounter. After graduation, Day plans to work at a magazine company in the fashion or beauty closet. If she’s not able to do that, she’d like to work for Marc Jacobs or something in that nature.
In the remainder of her college career, she plans to look into other internships. She will be studying abroad this summer in Paris for fashion. She wants to be able to have experience when pursuing her career and she feels that all of her hard work will pay off.
Day’s insight as a current full-time student and worker is that interning is a MUST in the communications major. The point is to be able to start somewhere and have the ability to set your resume apart from the rest as she already has.