Monday MyCom High Five: Congratulations to Saving Our Daughters
Saving Our Daughters (SOD) eliminates social barriers that ultimately restrict students’ success in their daily lives as the organization utilizes influential celebrities to help mentor and educate girls beyond the borders of a traditional classroom. Utilizing celebrity mentors allows for girls of multicultural backgrounds to connect to programming in a unique way.
Saving Our Daughters and MyCom partnered in November at Richmond Heights Middle School to host a Behind The Scenes in Careers in Theater, Film, and Television initiative.
The program started in November with highlight visits from WEWS Cleveland reporters Remi Murrey and Camryn Justice.
Remi Murrey is an Emmy-nominated news reporter originally from Detroit. She spoke to the young women about her experiences as a college intern and young reporter in a small market and the choices that led her to a large market in Cleveland during her visit on November 14.
Camryn Justice met with Richmond Heights’ aspiring journalists just before Thanksgiving. She is a sports reporter covering the Browns and many other duties. She discussed growing up in Akron as a Cleveland sports fan, how that influenced her career goals, and how the path to her current role started with taking on very small opportunities in high school and college.
Testimonials
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Curtis Benjamin
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Brenda PryorMyCom Coordinator
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Brandan NewtonAnton Grdina FLOW Participant
MyCom will enact our mission with race and equality at the forefront of our work as we always have. We will use our thought-leadership, funding, advocacy, and network to redesign service delivery. Together we will rethink infrastructure and create solutions that eliminate access to healthcare, cyclical poverty, access to quality education, housing stability, and other barriers that have impacted black lives.