Meet Amoy Brown

Today we’d like to introduce you to Amoy Brown.

Hi Amoy, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
When I was a little girl, my favorite movie was the Devil wears Prada and I always wanted to be like Miranda when I got older. So as I started to prepare for my career, I knew that I had to take certain steps to get me where I wanted to be. So that included several different internships, networking, and really doing everything I could to get my foot in the door. I was always told that if you intern when you’re in college by the time you graduate, you will have a job secured for you but unfortunately Covid had other plans as I graduated in May 2020. With offices closing and businesses shutting down, it became really difficult for me to get a job in the industry that I had been working towards for the last four or five years of my life. During that time, I also wasn’t able to work because my mall job had closed as well so I had a lot of free time on my hands and I thought to myself what can I do to keep my skills up and use the knowledge that I have to help me get to a better position. So that was when I decided to start my own freelance public relations business helping small business owners really grow and develop and scale their own businesses. The work that I did in 2020 helped prepare me for the position that I am in now in 2021 where I am working for a major public relations agency.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It definitely hasn’t been easy. I have gone through my fair share of trials and tribulations on this journey but I don’t think that I would change anything if I had the chance to do it over again.

I remember I got an internship in the city and it was a full-time internship from 9 to 5 Monday through Friday and at this time, I lived in Long Island and this internship was in Manhattan. Because it was unpaid, I didn’t have any money to travel so I had to use the metro card they gave to us so I can run errands in the city, and it took me two hours to get to work and two hours to get from work every day and then on the weekends I would work like 12-hour shifts on Saturday and Sunday so that I had enough money to get lunch and do whatever I need to do during the week when I was interning. I was really tired all the time because I had to wake up really early to get to work and I would get home pretty late and on the weekends I couldn’t rest because I had to work it was difficult but I had goals and I had to do whatever it took for me to reach those goals.

And even outside of that, I’ve been told no so many times, I’ve had so many doors closed in my face but you have to just persevere and keep pushing and just believe in yourself and in your goal and your dream as much as possible and that’s going to give you that extra push that you need when things get really rough.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Currently, I am a junior account executive in the beauty department for a major public relations agency in Manhattan, and I also do freelance PR on the side. My business is called posh and proper Inc. and our motto is a posh brand starts with proper branding.

Some of my biggest achievements have been securing brand placements in magazines such as Vogue, ELLE, PopSugar, and more. I have also been able to attend launch events, participate in influencer collaborations, and test out products before they hit the shelf.

In terms of your work and the industry, what are some of the changes you are expecting to see over the next five to ten years?
One of the biggest things that I think I would like to see in the industry for the years to come is just an increase in diversity. We are doing a good job of creating more diverse work environments, a lot of the creative that you see now come from various ethnic backgrounds and different walks of life so I think it’s important to continue to encourage that talent in the industry. In that diversity also includes age as well there are a lot of young people that are coming in that are really having these super groundbreaking fresh and exciting ideas and sometimes these gatekeepers try to kind of block that from seeing the light and I think welcoming these new fresh takes on the industry and just more insight on like where the industry is heading as opposed to where it’s been those are the type of things that I would love to see happen in my industry within the years to come we are in the right direction but there is a lot more work that needs to be.

Contact Info:

• Email: Amoyabigail@gmail.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/moya_beans?utm_medium=copy_link