USC Themed Entertainment Program Coordination

The USC Themed Entertainment BFA program operates as a multi-year, interdisciplinary ecosystem involving students, faculty, administrators, alumni, industry guests, and external partners. As a Student Assistant and Program Coordinator, I serve as the central coordination and communication point for program-wide initiatives that extend beyond any single course or project.

This role functions less as class-level support and more as program-wide operations and coordination, requiring visibility across overlapping timelines, stakeholders, and initiatives.

Role & Responsibilities:
In this position, I support the program’s academic, operational, and industry-facing efforts by managing communication, logistics, and stakeholder alignment across overlapping initiatives. I regularly coordinate with faculty, School of Cinematic Arts administration, program leadership, and other USC departments to support events, field trips, guest visits, and special initiatives, while also acting as a primary point of contact for students, prospective students, alumni, and external collaborators.

Because of my visibility across projects and timelines, I often function as a central information hub for the program, maintaining context around past decisions, ongoing conversations, and upcoming needs. I am frequently included in planning discussions to provide continuity, surface relevant background information, and help ensure alignment between teams that may not otherwise be in direct communication. Much of this work involves translating information between groups with different priorities, availability, and communication styles, and passing along the right information to the right people at the right time.

University-Level Coordination & Continuity:
Beyond individual tasks or initiatives, this role centers on maintaining continuity within a complex University system. Rather than owning a single project, I maintain visibility across the program as a whole: tracking how initiatives intersect, where dependencies exist, and where communication gaps are likely to emerge over time.

By functioning as a consistent coordination point across overlapping timelines, I help ensure that decisions remain informed by past context, that parallel efforts stay aligned, and that momentum is maintained even as teams, priorities, or personnel shift. This systems-level awareness allows the program to operate cohesively across academic cycles, events, and industry engagement, reducing friction and preventing work from stalling due to lost information or misalignment.

Because of this program-wide visibility and institutional context, I am frequently brought into conversations that extend beyond day to day coordination. This has included being personally selected to represent the Themed Entertainment program on USC event-planning teams to assess whether future events could be assumed and produced by the program, as well as consulting on future course offerings, faculty and program-lead hires, and industry-facing conversations such as donor and stakeholder meetings. In these contexts, I contribute historical context, operational insight, and production perspective to help inform long-term decisions and ensure alignment with program capabilities.