2021 in Review: Student Successes

Editor’s Note: This is part of our  five-part series highlighting stories produced by Grady College in 2021. The features includes three stories in each of the following subjects:

• Student Successes

• Faculty Honors

• College Headlines

• Research & Grants

• Service & Partnerships

This is not intended to be a comprehensive list, but instead highlight a sample of just a few of the more than 210 stories about accomplishments by our students, faculty/staff and alumni.

We invite you to visit our Grady College News page for a full list of features posted in 2021. 

Our students are creators and innovators. Their work in storytelling and strategy is already reaching audiences and influencing society.

Student highlights for the year include:

• Journalism students, under the guidance of Dodie Cantrell-Bickley, produced a pair of documentaries. “60^th Anniversary of Desegregation at UGA,” It detailed Charlayne Hunter an Hamilton Holmes’ experiences as the first Black students to attend the University of Georgia. “The First Five” chronicled the stories of the first Black scholarship players on Georgia’s football team.
• Alise Crittendon, an advertising student from Mableton, Ga., was selected to the American Advertising Federation (AAF) 2022 class of Most Promising Multicultural Students. Crittendon was also one of nine Grady College students named a 2021 Multicultural Advertising Intersnship Program (MAIP) fellow.
• Kendell Williams (AB ’17) competed in her second Olympics as a heptathlete. She joined the Hooper & Sanford podcast to recap her experience as an Olympian and discuss why she returned to Athens as a graduate student in advertising.

Learn more about our student successes in two of our student profile series: Profiles of Tenacity and InternViews.