At TASTE, different paths meet at one table

I was one of the last students added to TASTE after missing the registration deadline. As students were being paired with mentors, I quickly answered questions about the industry I was most interested in, my professional goals and what I hoped to pursue in my career. Within two hours, I was paired with Gabriela Garcia. Fresno State mass communication and journalism students discussed career goals and opportunities with industry professionals over lunch on Nov. 5 at TASTE, short for Take a Student to Eat. Before TASTE, I was not nervous about sitting down with a professional. I was more curious than anything. I had never really sat down with someone and talked in depth about my career goals, the steps I planned to take to reach them and how I developed those goals in the first place. Garcia is a Fresno State graduate with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication and journalism with an emphasis in broadcast journalism.

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