Moderator: Tamar Gaffin-Cahn, Associate Director, Graduate Studies, Career Development Center, Emerson College

Panelists:

Darian Symoné Harvin '13 is an accomplished beauty reporter and influential speaker with a fiercely loyal and active community. As a former social media editor, she uses her journalism and curatorial skills to craft distinct narratives on beauty at the intersection of politics and pop culture. Equal parts thoughtful and curious, she has a natural eye for trends and because of her experience, a deep understanding of the stories that resonate. On top of her successful newsletter BEAUTY IRL, Darian has interviewed the most relevant artists today, from the most viral TikTok stars to Billboard #1 artists to Oscar winners for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Cut, and Allure. Darian is a conversation starter and magnet for community. She recently made headlines as creator of the viral ‘Black Girls in Front of the Mona Lisa’ tweet, and auctioning it as a NFT.

Dalton Pate '20 is a freelance director and producer currently located in Los Angeles. His music video work for labels such as Atlantic, Hopeless, Carpark, Anxiety Blanket, and Run for Cover Records has been featured in various publications, including The New York Times and Rolling Stone.

Dalton's most recent short, The Flashlight is a Bomb, has won awards internationally, premiered at the Malibu Film Festival, and was a semi-finalist at Flicker’s Rhode Island International Film Festival. He is currently in production on his first feature.

Terri Trespicio, MFA'02 helps people who want to work with meaning and live with purpose to unlock their creative genius. Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has been viewed more than 8 million times, and she’s the author of Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You (Atria/Simon & Schuster). An award-winning writer and keynote speaker, she’s a former magazine editor at Martha Stewart, and her writing has been featured in Marie Claire, Jezebel, Business Insider, Oprah magazine, and others.

A trusted brand advisor, consultant, and copywriter, Terri helps brand (and rebrand) businesses of all sizes, and helps organizations and teams identify and articulate what makes them, and their work, worth knowing.

Terri earned her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, where her thesis won the graduate dean award, and she placed first for creative nonfiction in the Baltimore Review’s 2016 literary contest. Terri lives in Manhattan. Download her free course, The Passion Trap, at territrespicio.com/trap.

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