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.

In her spare time, Sydney jumps out of airplanes. After quickly falling (quite literally) in love with the sport in 2005, she reignited her love for freefall in March 2010 at Skydive Temple while in Austin to speak at SXSW. Sydney is a USPA-certified skydiver, trained at Freefall University at Chicagoland Skydiving Center in Hinckley, Illinois. At 5:00 on Friday, you’ll find Sydney bolting to her car, backpack and blanket in tow on her way out to the dropzone to squeeze in a jump before sunset and camp out for the weekend.

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, topics surrounding her blossoming career in digital communications and her adventures in the bright blue skies.

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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AUTHOR’S NOTE: This bio is so canned and boring right? There’s more to my story…