Placement

ACCOUNT/BRAND MANAGERS

• Tamika Alexander – Mother, NYC
• Gabe Glassman – JOAN NY, NYC
• Libby Browder – JOAN NY, NYC
• Austin Fattizzi – EURPAC, RVA
• Olivia Koerner – Influenceable, Charlotte
• Cecil Parham – Streetsense, NOVA
• Sophie Reinhardt – Wildfire, Winston-Salem

ART DIRECTORS

• Paityn Aunapu – Davis Agency, Virginia Beach
• Ben Crispin – Arnold, Boston
• Max Dotson – Gus, NYC
• Zofia Farley – GUT, LA
• Sarah Flynn – MAL, LA
• Eliza Fry – Anomaly, NYC
• Kaitlyn Gough – Lucky Generals, NYC
• Lorna Graham – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
• Maddie Green – MARTIN*, RVA 
• Laurel Holsinger – Havas, NYC
• Zoe Kennedy – Artemis Ward, Washington DC
• Jennifer Kim – Mother, LA
• Chen Li – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
• John Marenic – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
• Anna Monnett – Innocean, Huntington Beach
• Paige Mudd – Saatchi, NYC
• Monse Munoz – MARTIN*, RVA
• Kristina Murray – BBH, NYC
• Logan Murray – Quality Meats, Chicago
• Chloe O’Hallaron – Saatchi, LA
• Izzy Pinson – Flower Shop, NYC
• Leah Silverman – Walrus, NYC
• Lori Tsai – Mother, NYC
• Annie Zheng – Tombras, NYC

COPYWRITERS

• Carson Brooke – Havas, NYC
• Moss Davis – McKinney, Durham
• Diana DeGroot – MAL, LA
• Elena Didway – Optimism BH, SF
• Caleb Driesman – Gus, NYC
• Eliza Friel – WHITE64, NOVA
• Sam Grigsby – Saatchi, NYC
• Thomas Halsey – MARTIN*, RVA
• Emery Hasenstab – Arnold, Boston
• Casey Hickman – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
• Jon Ilbay – Ogilvy, Chicago
• Sam Khan – Mother LA
• Hal Mady – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
• Greg Patterson – Mother, NYC
• Josef Pellegrini – GUT, LA
• Marissa Price – MARTIN*, RVA
• Emma Rich – Arnold, Boston
• Sam Rosenberg – McCann, NYC
• Emma Roth- Broadhead, Minneapolis
• Sandra Sanchez – Lucky Generals, NYC
• Maddie Seabolt – Argonaut, SF
• Imaan Shaikh – Wieden + Kennedy, NYC
• Arianna Stewart – Davis Agency, Virginia Beach
• Hannah Wente – Walrus, NYC

PRODUCERS

• Noah McKee – Mother, NYC

PRODUCT/UX DESIGNERS

• Meredith Moore – UDig, RVA
• Benn Pattara – MARTIN*, RVA

STRATEGISTS

• Alyssa Black – Lucky Generals, NYC
• Rhyann Clark – Artemis Ward, DC
• Katie Dunn – Matheson Oyster Company, Gloucester
• Kathleen Firment – Familiar Creatures, RVA
• Hailey Fitzgerald – DEEPLOCAL, Pittsburgh
• Lucas Gaitan – Droga5, NYC
• Casey Hall – Goodby Silverstein & Partners, SF
• Briyana Li – NOVA Tastings, Bristow
• McCenzie Murphy – UEG, NYC
• John Romanelli – Havas, NYC
• Samyuktha Shankar – Minds & Assembly, NYC
• Judson Simpson – SYLVAIN, RVA
• Quentin Smith – Values Partnership, Washington DC
• Avni Srivastav – BBH, NY
• Cai Strachan – Davis Ad Agency, Virginia Beach
• Caroline Thomas – Leo, NYC
• Ivana Wade – Wieden + Kennedy, Portland

Art Directors

• Fiona Gallegos – Leo, Chicago
• Stephanie Gin – NVE Experience, NYC
• Brianna Knight – Momentum, NYC
• Ketaki Kulkarn – BCG Brighthouse, Atlanta
• Cassidy Lee – TDA, Boulder
• Lila Purtell – Erich & Kallman, SF
• Alex Shesh – Dentsu, NYC
• Maria Stepanyan – Publicis, Armenia
• Sophia Underwood – Havas, NYC
• Juliana Vieira – Potential Energy Coalition + Cannes Roger Hatchuel Academy
• Natalie Wolpert – Kastner, LA

Copywriters 

• Kathryn Blessington – Momentum, NYC
• Lexi Dixon – /prompt, remote
• Thad Dombrowski – Potential Energy Coalition
• Chy Gonzalez – GSD&M, Austin
• Nick Luna – Erich & Kallman, SF
• Molly Nealon – Digitas, Boston
• Dana Przybocki – WG Pictures/ LA
• Zen Southam-Gerow – TDA, Boulder
• Bruce Wan – Momentum, NYC

Creative Brand Managers

• Emma Foy – Sweet Talk Strategy, RVA
• Rachel Grose – Denstu, NYC
• Anna Hansohn – Leo, NYC
• Srija Kothakonda – Savara Hospitality, RVA
• Serena Loomba – Dotted Line Agency, RVA
• Sarah Mady – Leo, NYC
• Jake McKay – Droga5, NYC
• Reagan Mann – Saatchi, NYC
• Rachel Tierney – Saatchi, NYC
• Tomas Williamson – Droga5, NYC

Strategy

• Sami Davis – TBWA Worldwide, New Zealand
• Leah Glass – Dentsu, NYC
• Jess Ligon – Leo, Chicago

Advanced Portfolio Class: Take the skills and work honed over your time in the program and turn them into recruiter-worthy pieces. While you’re always pushing to make your best work at Brandcenter, we devote dedicated time to polishing specific projects for your final portfolio.

Career Prep Workshops: Receive specialized training in all things career from building a standout resume to mastering networking, interviewing, and more.

Individualized Career Support: From answering interview prep questions to connecting you with the right person at an agency, you’ll have dedicated staff to help guide and root for you throughout your job search.

Assigned Industry Mentors: All students are paired with an alum mentor during their second year, coordinated by concentration, specific interests, and long-term career goals.

Recruiters love Brandcenter graduates, and we make it easy for them to discover our talent.

Recruiter Session to Launch Your Job Search: The spring of your second year in the program, recruiters join us in-person in Richmond, VA to get the first look at (and hire) Brandcenter grads. Read more about Recruiter Session.

Curated Recruiter Lists: Agencies actively look for talent here. When they reach out to us, we send back curated lists of graduates who fit specific job openings.

Recruiter Website: In addition to our in-person Recruiter Session, we distribute digital portfolios of our graduating class directly to an extensive network of recruiting contacts.

Brandcenter Alumni Network – The community you join as a Brandcenter student keeps growing with you long after you graduate. It’s a powerful, built-in network that delivers a form of career ROI extending well beyond your diploma.

In our latest Alumni Salary Survey, 70% of respondents from said that a Brandcenter alum or connection has helped them land a job, and 84% have used at least one Brandcenter alum resource since graduating.

You’re not required to do an internship, but we’ll give you the tools to help you land an internship in the summer between your first and second years at agencies and companies doing some of the industry’s best work.

Each year, we receive hundreds of summer intern requests from agencies and companies that know the rigor of our program, providing a place for our students to dive into the work and make significant contributions.

When it’s time, we’ll curate and organize internship opportunities in one place so you can search by discipline, city, or agency/company and then decide where to apply.

These are always paid internships, and they’ll provide you with the opportunity to apply what you learn during your first year, make professional connections that will help you throughout your career, and potentially get work produced. You won’t just be making coffee.

Known as the “Oscars of Advertising,” the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the largest festival for creative communications, advertising, and related fields. Through the Brandcenter’s Cannes Lions Festival Study Abroad Program, students have the opportunity to learn from industry thought leaders, digital innovators, and marketers.

Our Cannes program is not required. The optional program takes place over the summer and is open to all graduate and undergraduate VCU students, as well as non-VCU college students, and requires work pre-and post-festival.

Read more about the Cannes program here.

While you’re first job out after graduation is cause for celebration, your long-term career trajectory matters even more. The combination of portfolio development, mentorship, and an active alumni network you receive at Brandcenter is designed to help you build a career that grows over time.

Brandcenter alumni work on behalf of the world’s biggest brands, at some of the world’s most creative companies, and at leading advertising, design, and innovation agencies, consultancies, and firms. They also create their own agencies and consultancies.

Our Alumni Salary Survey, fielded every two years, captures our graduates’ average starting salaries, career trajectories, and more.

Keep in mind that most career paths in our industry aren’t a straight line or linear path. Our alums often move between worlds (agency, brand, consultancy, freelance) where titles fluctuate. For many of our alums, their path can also include freelancing and/or starting and running their own companies.

We’ve gathered the top job titles to give an idea of potential career trajectory from the results of our latest Alumni Salary Survey.

See details for each concentration on program pages: Art Direction, Copywriting, Creative Brand Management, and Strategy.