OUR MISSION
To introduce female college students to the ad business and impart the value of women’s voices as we build a more diverse industry.
OUR WORK
Through a yearly mini-conference and immersion day, we introduce young women to the opportunities available in advertising. We aim to ignite their passion for the business we love and support them as they endeavor to become part of it.
ADWEEK
HERE’S ONE INDIE AGENCY’S PLAN TO GET MORE YOUNG WOMEN INTERESTED IN AD CAREERS
“How will agencies get more women and people of color in high-level C-suite and creative leadership positions? It's a question the industry has been grappling with quite a bit recently, and Nashville-based Bohan Advertising thinks it's found a way to truly begin making a change within agencies…”
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PANEL
THE INDUSTRY SUCKS AT DIVERSITY — WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT?
Everyone in the industry is offering their take on the topic of diversity and inclusion. But what’s truly being done to turn talk into action? A group of diversity champions discuss projects they’ve enacted at their companies and offer tactical advice on how to get the approval of C-suite executives, hire talent, defeat unconscious bias and demand diversity from partners. Following this panel conversation, attendees will engage in a workshop amongst peers to share and create diversity initiatives that can be implemented now.
Brian Braiker
Moderator
Shanté Bacon
Founder and CEO
134th Street Agency
Bridget Deenihan
Associate Creative Director
Copywriter
Bohan
Valerie Nguyen
Head of Strategy
Wolf & Wilhelmine
Oris Stuart
Senior VP, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer
National Basketball Association
12 FUN FACTS ABOUT OUR SMALL AGENCY CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Published on June 12, 2017, AdAge.com
Ad Age's 2017 Small Agency Conference is a little over a month away and on tap for the two-day event is a roster of inspiring speakers discussing everything from diversity to unique business models to building lasting agency-client partnerships.
There are winners of Clios, Effies and Cannes Lions, whose careers have taken them to Paris, Sydney and Hong Kong, and there's even a licensed attorney. But there's more to our speakers than what's in their bios and to get a better idea of what makes them tick, we asked then to share a fun fact — or two — about themselves.
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2. Bridget Deenihan, associate creative director at Bohan, said a lot of strangers have seen her privates. "As a college student, I was a figure model for art classes. As a grown-ass woman, I performed in burlesque shows. When my daughter becomes a teenager, and is either embarrassed by this news or the fact that I still shop at Forever 21, I'm going to gently remind her that we'll all be dead someday and that it is not her job or mine to care what other people think," she said.... [READ MORE}
Finding a Female-Friendly Agency Fit
August 22, 2016 – Guest Post by Bridget Deenihan
Illustration by Tim Delger
Micro-actions can create powerful, positive changes when you work at a healthy agency with feminist allies, the support of manbassadors, and progressive leadership. But if you’re stuck at agency that has a toxic culture–one that’s riddled with misogynistic management, abusive clients, or people who routinely undermine women because they’re giant walking buttholes disguised as full-grown human beings–then it’s time to get out and find something better.
But how? Great question. I don’t have a simple answer. But I can offer a few pieces of advice for finding out if an agency is right for you, prior to accepting the job. [READ FULL BLOG POST]
