Young Pros: October Meet-Up
ARF Young Pros Meet-Ups are a networking opportunity in a virtual world, designed to build your network with meaningful, professional relationships.
This is a trimester program with four monthly Meet-Ups, each uniquely curated for the Young Pros. We will introduce you to fellow research professionals in an environment built for networking.
In addition, an industry leader will give us a glimpse into their career, talk successes and challenges and share tips specifically for Young Pros.
How Meet-Ups work:
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- 60-minute sessions; one per month
- Industry leader interview followed by networking sessions
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Third Trimester Young Pros Meet-Up Event Schedule:
- Thursday, Nov. 18 – 3:00-4:00 pm EST
- Thursday, Dec. 16 – 12:00-1:00 pm EST
About this month’s speaker:
Veronica Hernandez is currently Product Manager at Nielsen focusing on the company’s recently launched Gracenote Inclusion Analytics (GIA) offering. GIA leverages trusted Nielsen viewership data and Gracenote program metadata to deliver new metrics on the diversity of entertainment content and audiences to studios, distributors, advertisers, and agencies. She started her career at Nielsen as a Client Insights Analyst, working on custom cross-platform research.
As a college senior, Veronica was a Nielsen Media Lab Fellow. In that role, she combined her personal commitment to equity and professional experience with representation in media research to uncover how on-screen representation impacts audiences. Her fellowship report became the proof of concept for what is now Gracenote Inclusion Analytics.
Prior to joining Nielsen, Veronica was a researcher at the Geena Davis Institute, a leading non-profit and advocacy group focusing on increasing representation in media. She is a UC Berkeley PPIA Fellow and holds an Urban and Environmental Policy degree from Occidental College. Veronica was born and raised in Southeast Los Angeles.
October Featured Speaker
Nielsen
