Kim Karalekas

I’ve been MIA for the past few weeks, but for good reason, check it out!

Deb & Kim are involved with the Greenwashing Index which led to the Greenwashing Forum which took place a few weeks back.  I was lucky to attend this event, learned quite a bit about brands, advertising and authenticity.

Throughout the day, I worked with Max, David, Ricky and Harsha to provide live blogging and tweeting – great opportunities!

A few weeks ago, a bunch of advertising & magazine students went up to visit/tour Nike:

And at Wieden!  What a freaking smart and strategically sructured agency.  I think I’d love to work there someday…I think.  I’m not sure I’d like the start there becase it seems like a wonderful place to settled after some world experience.  (=

Check it out, Wieden loves Oregon too (=

To say thank you to Wieden, we filmed a thank you video:

And then there was a week with Merry Baskin from Baskin Shark!  Here’s our welcome to her weeklong stay:

Ignite Portland happened this past Thursday evening!

NVC sponsored Ignite this year, so part of our NVC team and I went up for the event!

So we returned home around 1 am, and at 8 am I had a presentation!  Part of the Merry Baskin week included a planning/research/strategy bootcamp project – 20 of us were divided in five times – we were briefed on Monday and had to plan, research and create a strategic survey regarding sustainability practices.  Here’s on of the teams presenting on Friday:

So…this is where I’ve been and what’s I’ve been doing!  Well…the major events anyway.  Sometimes I question if I’m still taking classes?  Love it though, I couldn’t have asked for better opportunities.