Be a part of the next cohort!
Applications are now open for Spring 2025 Questions? Email Professor Pallavi Kumar.
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Using a design-thinking approach, students will work with an actual client to devise innovative solutions to complex problems and opportunities through strategic storytelling. The cohort will be able to amplify messages related to topics such as public health, racial inequity, economic impact, food insecurity or climate change to effect change and on behalf of organizations who share these missions and values. Students will also receive leadership training as part of the experience.
The ideal cohort will be comprised of students from a variety of communication disciplines; historically underrepresented minority students and students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Students with authorizations to work in the United States will receive a $1,000 stipend for their role in running SOC3. Open to all SOC Majors who are rising juniors and seniors. Held Tuesdays from 11:20 a.m.- 2:10 p.m.
Deadline: November 1st by midnight
SOC3 was created to place GenZ students at the forefront of creative innovation, social justice and industry diversity by equipping them with the professional skills and experience to jump start their careers. Read how far they've come in just one year & watch the celebration below!
The second cohort of SOC3 – the “Storytelling for Changemakers” experiential learning initiative led by Professor Pallavi Kumar – and its work with the Bring Our Families Home campaign were featured on Scripps News and its network of local TV stations.
O'dywer's, a publication that covers public communications and marketing news, highlighted the launch of SOC3 and its plans to work with its first client, DC Central Kitchen.
Applications are now open for Spring 2025 Questions? Email Professor Pallavi Kumar.
With a $500,000 gift to launch SOC3—American University’s first-of-its-kind, in-house communications agency—Michael Kempner, SPA/BS ’81, is giving Eagles a formative, hands-on opportunity to help students shape their careers.