Lynne Scott Jackson is the 2024 PRSA-NY Big Apple Excellence in Mentoring Award recipient.
CCNY student Layla Ayoub is this year’s PRSA-NY Art Stevens CCNY Scholar.
Lynne Scott Jackson, distinguished lecturer and the director of Industry Relations, Internships and Professional Development in the Ad/PR Program at The City College of New York, is the recipient of the 2024 PRSA-NY Big Apple Excellence in Mentoring Award. The award honors individuals who continuously lead, guide and selflessly counsel and stimulate the careers of communications professionals at all career stages.
The event, themed “Collaboration and Innovation,” is the premier networking event for the public relations industry and also recognizes the 2024 15 Under 35. She also received PRSA-NY’s President’s Award for Leadership and Service in 2021 and the 2021 CCNY Townsend Harris Medal for postgraduate achievement in marketing communications.
With several years of experience in communications, Scott Jackson has worked in consumer advertising, healthcare marketing and social entrepreneurship. Her consultancy, Millynneum Marketing, Media & Public Affairs, has developed award-winning public relations programs for corporations, businesses and institutions, including: Colgate-Palmolive Company’s Bright Smiles, Bright Futures®, Pepsi-Cola Company’s Link Program, South African Tourism, Schering Plough, The Prostate Net, Warner Bros. and SKG DreamWorks to name a few.
Scott Jackson is actively involved in PRSA’s Diversity Central Committee and the Black Public Relations Society-NY. She is advisor to the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) - American Advertising Federation (AAF) student chapters and executive producer of the Building Bridges Career Fair & Networking Mixer, the Ad/PR Program’s signature event.
She is a graduate of Howard University’s Cathy Hughes School of Communications, receiving a B.A. in Communications and is recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Award. She also has a Master’s in International Affairs from the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College.
PRSA-NY also named CCNY PRSSA President Layla Ayoub, an Ad/PR student graduating in spring 2025, as this year’s PRSA-NY Art Stevens CCNY Scholar, which is funded by Stevens, managing partner of The Stevens Group and a CCNY alumnus (Class of 1957). Ayoub was awarded a $5000 scholarship, and she and her team worked on the Building Bridges Career Fair & Networking Mixer where 150 people attended including alumni, recruiters and Ad/PR Program supporters.
To read more about the winners of this year’s Big Apple Awards, click here.
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