Club Spotlight: Mulberry Media

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Club: Mulberry Media
Meet: Grace Quick '26, shown, is an advertising major from Yardley.
Role in the Club: President
Connect: @uofs_mm
By: Elizabeth Vander Neut, student correspondent
Q: Your club is one of many extracurricular opportunities within the Communication and Media Department. Can anyone participate?
“Yes, we love when we get members from outside of the Comm Department. It’s great to see how different majors, like marketing or business, can use their strengths and knowledge to collaborate with communication majors on projects.”
Q: What, in your opinion, are the most exciting events or activities you present as a club?
“As much as we enjoy working on our club projects, our service projects have historically been a great success for the club. Last year we did a lot of cards for the veterans at the Gino J. Merli Veterans' Center. It has been a great way for the club members to give back to the community and we plan on doing more cards for them this year.”
Q: What is Mulberry Media’s mission?
“To serve students by building upon advertising and IMC (Integrated Marketing Communications) skills through teamwork, hands-on activities, mentoring and decision-making in an enjoyable and fun environment. To serve the University's campus community by providing advertising and IMC skills to enhance their events and programs. To serve local businesses and nonprofits in the community by applying advertising and IMC skills.”
Q: Why would you recommend someone join?
“Mulberry Media is a great way to meet other students in the Comm Department while also working on projects that you can add to your portfolio and resume. Along with our projects, we do professional development meetings like resume and LinkedIn workshops and professional headshots. It is also a great opportunity for underclassmen to get involved in leadership positions.“
Q: Why did you join the club?
“I joined the club my first year to meet other students in the Comm Department.”
Q: Please share the format of a typical meeting. When and where does Mulberry Media meet and how can someone who is interested find out more about it? What topics do you discuss?
“We typically meet at 7 p.m. every other Tuesday in 406 Loyola Science Center. In our standard meetings we discuss and brainstorm for our projects with our clients, but we also occasionally have meetings where we do service projects and professional development.”
Q: Any upcoming plans for the fall semester?
“We are planning on doing a meeting where we take professional headshots and make cards for the Gino J. Merli Veterans' Center to donate for Veterans Day.”
Q: Anything we have not asked about that you’d like to mention?
“You do not need any experience in advertising, design, social media, etc. to get involved in Mulberry Media.”
Shown at the recent Student Activities fair are Mulberry Media board members from left: Arianna Taylor, Amanda Vaccaro, Sheila Miller and Grace Quick.