Program and Online Teaching Assistant, Natalie Kates
Natalie Kates was raised by a bilingual Cuban family in Miami, Florida. She interned for two summers (2004-2005) at the City of Miami Office of Communications assisting the television producers with their documentaries and shows.
In the summer of 2007, she was chosen to intern at TBWAChiatDay in Los Angeles, California through the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA)’s Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP). MAIP annually places minority college students in paid intern positions at top advertising agencies. At the agency, Natalie worked with the Infiniti National and Method account management teams. During the summer of 2009, Natalie interned with the Integrated Marketing department at Zubi Advertising Services in Coral Gables, Florida helping to create and launch a social media marketing plan for the agency.
Throughout her senior year at FSU, Natalie was Historian of the Advertising Club and she began collaborating with the Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication. In April of 2008, Natalie graduated Magna Cum Laude with a 3.76 grade point average and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Communication from FSU with a double minor in Hispanic Marketing Communication and Journalism. She was selected as the sole recipient from her graduating class with the 2008 Outstanding Mass Media Studies Student Achievement Award.
In May of 2010, Natalie completed her Master of Science Degree in Integrated Marketing Communication with a 3.5 grade point average and a graduate certificate in Digital Video Production. Post-graduation, she was a Digital Media Coordinator at the Zimmerman Agency in Tallahassee, FL until August 2010. The main accounts she worked with include Party City, George Foreman, Cooper Tires, Firedog, etc.
Natalie began a full-time position as the Promotions & Publications Coordinator at the FSU Career Center in August 2010. She also continues to assist the Center as a Program Assistant and as an Online Mentor for the Hispanic Marketing course. In addition, she has taken on the role of Assistant Director for Dr. Felipe Korzenny since 2009. Recent projects that she has been working on for the Center include updating this website, research finding Hispanic cultural insights from contemporary Latin music, and a study on the color preferences of multicultural consumers.