Looking Back at Our Summer With the 2024 SMG Impact Fellows

• Looking Back at Our Summer With the 2024 SMG Impact Fellows
• Oct 04, 2024

Earlier this summer, Sony Music Group welcomed its fourth cohort of SMG Impact Fellows.

The program originally launched in 2021 as a partnership with the 4A's Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP); fellows from subsequent cohorts have also come to SMG from American Indigenous Business Leaders (AIBL), Lime Connect, Out for Undergrad (O4U), and Scholarships Plus. These partners allow us to bolster our efforts to recruit, develop, and retain diverse entry-level talent.

This year's cohort was comprised of four MAIPers working primarily at The Orchard on various teams such as Brand Marketing, Digital College Marketing, Marketing, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, and Global Artist & Label Services. This year, Fellows are gleaning insights from their internship experiences in our Nashville and New York City Offices. Fellows also benefit from participating in internal DE&I discussions, meet and greets with senior leaders, participating in the intern showcase, and attending exclusive cohort-tailored programming.

Hear how their summer went:

"We were truly treated like the best of the best and I felt so special from beginning to end. The SMG Impact Fellow experience gave me the courage to continue working on my professional brand while also placing me in spaces I've only dreamed of being in." - Edward Williams Jr.

"Each part of the SMG Impact Fellows program came with its own words of wisdom, helping us understand how to navigate a life in corporate, where spaces can be filled with people who don't look like us nor our communities. They constantly made us feel important and reminded us why we are important." - Elizabeth Briese

The Office of DE&I launched the Impact Fellows program to provide college students from underrepresented communities the unique opportunity to learn about and experience the music industry during a three-month summer fellowship, supplemented by professional development opportunities and programming from their host organizations.

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