Our Alumni
2013
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Alumni are organized by their graduating class year, and will be added to the list as they respond.
Kylie Potuznik
Some of the brands and companies we've worked for:
After graduation Kylie started working at Fox Broadcasting Company as an assistant in the Publicity department. After one year with the company she was promoted to Publicity Coordinator and started working on the following shows:
- Glee
- The Mindy Project
- Family Guy
- New Girl
- 24: Live Another Day
A year later she was promoted to Publicist and launched television's #1 show "Empire," the 5 time Emmy Award winning "Grease: Live," and "The X-Files." After 4 years with Fox Broadcasting Company, she decided to move to San Francisco and took a job in the PR & Communications department at Lucasfilm Ltd.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylie-potuznik-2986444b/
Brittany Garrido
Brittany was an active member of PRSSA at Pepperdine where she graduated with a degree in advertising. She has since worked for Yelp and Cisco in the sales departments.
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Jordan Santos
Since Pepperdine, Jordan has used her degree in PR to work in social media. She was the first hire at a influencer marketing start-up, which was founded by a Pepperdine alum. A few months later, she began managing her own team. She's now at SWIM SOCIAL, a Los Angeles-based social media agency that represents Alfred Coffee, Wildfox, and Selena Gomez's Revival Tour. Like her first job, she was the first hire and is now the Account Director and is managing a team of 5.
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Kylie Mazon
Kylie writes recipes and does her own photography for her cooking blog, Cooking with Cocktail Rings. While she no longer works in PR in a traditional sense, she uses it everyday in managing her site, social media channels, and working with other PR and social teams for brands and restaurants. She also does freelance food photography for restaurants and campaigns.
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Austie Montgomery
Austie graduated from Pepperdine in 2013, after doing PR with the Lakers she moved into advertising (her second major) and started doing sales for an ad tech company. She currently work at a media start up called Render Media, where they create socially engaging content for their three emerging brands; Cooking Panda, Opposing Views and Teen Times.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austie-montgomery-04074b40/