Introducing our adfellows 8.0 cohort! adfellows is a unique fellowship program, developed to bring diverse talent into the marketing and advertising industry, and is the first and only industry fellowship to offer a diverse, fully integrated client and agency immersion experience.
Keep reading to discover more about Ziyadah, Ben and Carla…
Ziyadah Ziegler
Tell us an interesting fact about yourself!
During high school, I had the unique opportunity to be coached by former Olympic fencer Tim Morehouse. I was honored to be named MVP of the season and even traveled to Wuxi, China for a week to train with top coaches and fencers. It was an immersive experience, as I not only deepened my skills on the fencing strip but also embraced Chinese culture and had a lot of fun along the way.
What is your dream job?
My dream job is to integrate my passions with helping people in their daily lives. As a free spirit, I am driven by what inspires me mentally, emotionally, and ethically—such as art, travel, health and wellness, and humanitarian work. If I can find these elements reflected in my professional life, I’ll be engaged in work that I love and that makes a meaningful difference.
What is one of your top recommendations, and why?
My top movie recommendation is The Deliverances. It’s a horror film that explores the struggles of a family in Indiana as they confront paranormal events. The film skilfully uses supernatural occurrences as metaphors for internal conflicts that everyone experiences. It delivers a powerful message about the importance of confronting your fears to overcome worldly challenges: you cannot conquer your fears if you are unwilling to face them.
Ben Miller
Tell us an interesting fact about yourself!
I can Texas two-step! I took lessons for a couple months in the beginning of the year.
What is your dream job?
I would love to be working in a role that is strategy and/or analytics based. I enjoy problem solving and putting together a story, and strategy/data analytics is a field in our industry that allows us to do that. A lot of the work I did at university was centered around this. Additionally, with recent strides in technology I can only imagine the process becoming more thorough and detailed, allowing people to tell the story of a brand in a more creative way. I’m the type of person who likes data and knowledge, so I think a role where I’m ingrained in it would suit me best!
What is one of your top recommendations, and why?
Veep on HBO/Max. It’s genuinely a laugh-out-loud comedy and it’s so quotable. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is hilarious, and her character is very well written. I don’t think there’s a single character who is lacking in it as well. You should give it a chance if you haven’t yet!
Carla Nicolaievsky
Tell us an interesting fact about yourself!
Fun fact: I can speak 4 languages
What is your dream job?
Marketing Director/ CEO of my own agency that focuses on NGOs, this would be a dream because I would love to be able to take the skills I learnt through the course of my career and use them to help others.
What is one of your top recommendations, and why?
Top read: Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer, book of 90 short essays explaining issues with modern day ethics ranging from topics from AI to genetically modified humans.