About Sydney
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Short Bio:
Sydney’s life until today: born and raised in Overland Park, Kansas, she went to KU for two years (ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!!), dropped everything, moved to Florida to follow her parents, finished her degree at USF, moved to Chicago and here she is!
Now that is the very, very condensed version.
Extended Bio:
Sydney Owen is an assistant account executive in Weber Shandwick’s Chicago office, specializing in interactive, social and emerging media. Sydney helps execute programs that help clients achieve their public relations and marketing goals using the Internet and other social technology. With Weber Shandwick, Sydney also contributes to the interactive new business development team and works with a variety of clients including the Cherry Marketing Institute, Oscar Mayer, and Unilever.
Sydney is a member of the PRSA Chicago chapter’s communications committee, and leads their digital communication efforts by utilizing Twitter to promote the chapter and its events.
Sydney has utilized her personal network in the social space to secure advocates for the Cherry Marketing Institute, Oscar Mayer and Mars, Inc. She excels in creating and maintaining personal relationships with bloggers, spokespeople and clients.
Sydney’s personal blog, Sydney: Unfiltered (www.sydneyowen.com), is “a raw take on life as it is: unpredictable, frightening, and wildly exciting.” On Unfiltered, Sydney explores the day-to-day learnings of a 20-something recently graduated and relocated to the big city, including the transition from college to corporate, interpersonal communications and topics surrounding her blossoming career in public relations. Unfiltered has been ranked as one of the Top Gen-Y blogs by Brazen Careerist and Ryan Stephens Marketing.
Sydney is a graduate of the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in public relations with a focus on digital/emerging media. She lives in the city of Chicago.
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Orrrr you could always just email me: sydney.a.owen@gmail.com
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This bio is so canned and boring right? There’s more to my story…