100 ROSES FROM CONCRETE

Years in the industry: 0 to 5

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Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bycameroncarr/

Location: New York, NY 

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How I rose from concrete...

When I graduated from college in 2015, I was met with the reality of no internship opportunities, the pipeline of the network, career services guidance, or defined mentors to help me make my landing professionally into the real world. With no prior internship experience or connections lined up beyond my digital job applications I was essentially barred from entry to any opportunities let alone even an interview. But what I was equipped with was an immense determination to breach into the advertising world. Over the course of a year and six months of adamant networking, absorbing career advancement/advertising books, establishing mutual, non-transactional mentorships, and countless multiple round interviews and email correspondences courting various creative agencies, I strived and rose to secure an internship offer to come aboard BBDO Worldwide within Account Management on my birthday and the rest of history. 3 years later, while striving and rising alongside climbing the ranks through securing 3 promotions and co-founding an internal diversity council and community: BBDO IDEA to establish those very pipelines and networks I was so intensely searching for and the resources I wish I had— all of my current mentees I've obtained in my journey can attest to my current mantra and mission of that I want to ensure no one who looks like me has to go through the hurdles that I traversed within corporate white spaces/connections/networks and systemic inequities, simply to be considered worthy of a ticket of entry. When I found out about the MAIP program even after I had finally secured my own job, I instinctively signed up to be a mentor for the incoming classes and have been ever since for the same reason of this mission and ensuring I'm helping these students locate the jobs they deserve within these spaces, in practice with my ADCOLOR network's philosophy of RISING UP and REACHING BACK, as a 2020 FUTURES finalist. In the process, I will stop at nothing in terms of the drive, dedication, orchestration, and collaboration through an incredible organization such as 100 Roses From Concrete, to help set up and install these systems in place going forward for people to have someone to look up to, depend and rely on to reach back as someone who made the very same, difficult summit before them, and paved the way.