{"id":25534,"date":"2020-03-11T20:03:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T20:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/?p=25534"},"modified":"2020-03-13T17:57:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T17:57:30","slug":"alumni-spotlight-linh-dao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/2020\/03\/11\/alumni-spotlight-linh-dao\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Spotlight: Linh Dao"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Preston Peterson | Photos provided by Linh Dao<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Linh Dao taking on her first day at Target.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Linh Dao is one of our newest alumni and is already a success story! She graduated in Fall 2019 with degrees in New Media and Graphic Design. Linh has just started work as an Inclusive Marketing Council Assistant with BrandLab at Target. The position involves helping build cultural competency as well as working on projects having to do with brand safety, communication strategy, and risk management.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Linh Dao (left) and Jenny L. Hanson (right) at the UFVA Conference in Minneapolis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Linh\u2019s advice to current students is to make connections with professors as well as to be a part of as many internships as you can. During her time at Augsburg, Linh followed her own advice and took many opportunities to get experience before graduation. She was an Event Planning Intern for The Arc Minnesota and a Graphic Design Intern for both the Metropolitan Council and Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota. Linh held similar roles on campus, such as Social Media Chair for Augsburg Student Activity Council and President of the Augsburg International Student Organization. <\/span>She also made valuable connections with faculty. Linh worked on an <\/span>URGO<\/span><\/a> project in 2019 on information bias and data visualization using Google Maps with Director of Film and New Media, Jenny Hanson. Linh is presenting her project at the <\/span>Pop Culture Association<\/span><\/a> National Conference in April.<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked about how her major prepared her for her job, Linh said \u201cGraphic Design teaches me how to “make” the message and “create” the visual. New Media guides me on how to “re-fashion” the message, “deliver” it to the receiver, and “interpret” how the message will be understood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To connect with Linh, you can find her on <\/span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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