At this point of my fellowship, I am officially in the driver’s seat of enacting my fellowship goals and priorities. In a different role I served managing social media accounts, I constantly had my creative mind stifled, and my professional development stagnated. The exact opposite is taking place at my current fellowship. The advancement team is very supportive of my ideas, allowing me to set the tone and pace of my work. I hope to revisit this post during week ten and confidently say I did a great job! We had Monday off due to the federal holiday Juneteenth. I spent that day reflecting on the past and catching up on schoolwork. I am currently taking a public organization and Federal budgeting course. For one of the classes, I created a 2000-word stakeholder analysis that has helped me gauge the direction of our social media.

I have begun developing a content calendar that lists all the important events for all the Clubs. With the team’s support, I hope all Clubs will use it or another variation once I depart. I created an excel sheet that tracks my social media post frequency and innovation. I hope to use it as an accountability tool to gauge my performance for the organization. I created a document called Triumphs and Missed Opportunities. The Document tracks awesome content ideas I come up with and ideas I realized after the fact (time restraints). For a triumph, I posted a Throwback Thursday post with former employees visiting the newly built Champions Companies Milo-Grogan site. A missed opportunity would be Father’s Day, I did not post anything, yet I created a stockpile Father’s Day post for next year. The post consists of three different fathers at our community celebration event.

I had two notable highlights this week. On Wednesday, I visited the KIPP: Columbus site with our Philanthropy Coordinator Ellen. The Site Director Miles gave us a wonderful tour. KIPP: Columbus was a big complex with many unique programs at the site. Today, I had the pleasure of accompanying the children to a private event at the Crew Stadium called Columbus Crew S.T.E.M Day. Our children were given a tour and learned about all the career opportunities at Lower.com FIELD.