Part of an ongoing “Dress for Success” concern betwixt Fresno State and Macy’s, the retailer donated $10,000 successful acquisition cards for students successful Fresno State’s Renaissance Scholars Program to physique their nonrecreational wardrobes arsenic they measurement into the workforce.
A radical of Renaissance Scholars visited Macy’s successful Fashion Fair Mall successful April to enactment with idiosyncratic stylists during a two-hour backstage league earlier the store opened to the public. Each student received their ain $250 acquisition card.
Established successful 2008, the Renaissance Scholars Program is dedicated to serving Fresno State students who person experienced foster attraction astatine immoderate constituent successful their lives oregon are certified autarkic youth. The programme presently serves 138 undergraduate students and 13 station baccalaureate students.
Among the students who participated successful the backstage buying acquisition was Kina M. Moua, a elder who worked arsenic a societal media pupil adjunct successful University Marketing and Communications and has since earned her grade successful media, communications and journalism with an accent successful advertizing and nationalist relations.
“What made this acquisition truthful peculiar was however idiosyncratic it felt. Macy’s didn’t conscionable springiness america clothes, they gave america assurance and enactment for our adjacent steps successful life. We adjacent had stylists, Katie and Joey, who helped america take outfits that reflected some our personalities and our nonrecreational paths,” Moua said.
“That level of attraction meant a lot. It showed an knowing that everyone comes from antithetic backgrounds, and that however we amusement up matters, particularly successful fields wherever creativity is our identity. I loved however seen and supported I felt.”
Through an internship astatine Archer & Hound Advertising, Moua was capable to summation nonrecreational acquisition anterior to earning her degree, assisting successful task absorption and instauration of selling materials.
“It’s similar the build-up for a astonishment party, and successful the end, we get to astonishment the lawsuit with the uncover of our large work, and I’ve loved each 2nd of it with the hands-on learning acquisition that’s strengthened my skills and fixed maine a amended knowing of however the originative manufacture operates,” Moua said. “Beyond my existent role, I’ve besides been actively pursuing different opportunities with start-ups, companies similar Airbnb, Snapchat, Electronic Arts, and originative places that align with my passionateness for marque strategy and integer engagement to fto maine support growing.”
As she continues to turn professionally, Moua aims to enactment successful integer communications and marque strategy for organizations that premix creativity with intent successful the entertainment, tech, quality and manner industries. She said, “I privation to beryllium a portion of campaigns that let radical to consciousness seen, inspired, and connected successful the astir meaningful way.”
The Renaissance Scholars Program plans to instrumentality to Macy’s with much students successful June for different backstage buying experience.
“[Renaissance Scholars] has been a immense portion of my assemblage journey. As idiosyncratic who grew up without parental enactment and arsenic the archetypal successful my household to be college, I thought I understood what it meant to look challenges due to the fact that beingness had already thrown a lot. But assemblage came with a antithetic benignant of chaos,” Moua said.
“There were moments I wasn’t definite if I could support going with each the antithetic and caller beingness experiences that I kept facing, but programs similar [Renaissance Scholars] made definite I didn’t person to spell done it alone. They assistance usher maine and person shown maine the existent explanation and intent of information portion pursuing a degree.”
For much accusation connected however to enactment the Renaissance Scholars Program and different pupil enactment services with the Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, interaction David Hembree astatine 559.278.5052 oregon dhembree@csufresno.edu.
