Welcome IYLEP 2011 Video

Welcome Video For VCU IYLEP Program from Alix Bryan on Vimeo.

IYLEP


The Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP), funded by the U.S. Embassy/Baghdad, and implemented by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), enables 50 highly motivated students from Iraq to attend an intensive academic summer program at a U.S. host university.

GEO

    The VCU Global Education Office strives to promote:
  • Global and local student engagement
  • Academic success for international students
  • Research, teaching and service missions of VCU academic units through global partnerships

VCU Mass Communications

  The VCU School of Mass Communications prepares effective and skilled communicators through quality instruction, advising and student services, based on real world applications. Through research, professional service and scholarship in applied communications, the School advances the knowledge and practice of a multi-disciplinary and evolving media environment.

Speakers

Here are some of the speakers in our program:

Dr. Tim Bajkiewicz, broadcast journalism professor at VCU
http://www.has.vcu.edu/mac/faculty_staff_info/bajkiewicz_bio.html

Jonah Holland, president of Mox-eMedia, LLC; editor and publisher of the Near West End News; public relations and marketing coordinator for Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden; and winner of a Shorty Award for her use of Twitter

Marc LaFountain, community director for Tumblr.com
http://marclafountain.com/

Kendall Morris, partner with Fahrenheit Emerging Media
http://twitter.com/kendallmorris

Ryan Nobles, an anchor for NBC12 and a social media leader among broadcast journalists
http://www.nbc12.com

Dave Saunders, president and “Chief Idea Officer” for the creative advertising and new media agency, Madison + Main
http://www.madisonmain.com/

John Sarvay, owner of Floricane, which helps organizations improve leadership and communication
http://www.floricane.com/index.php/

Myra Goodman Smith, president and CEO of Leadership Metro Richmond; and Dr. Haywood Spangler, LMR’s director of education
http://www.lmronline.org/

Karri Pfeiffer, editor of Richmond.com
http://www2.richmond.com/home/