Category: Perspective

ADA in Action: Dyslexic Audiences

How To Be a Hero for Dyslexic Audiences I’ve loved comics since second grade. I fell in love with some of comics’ greatest heroes— Spiderman, Batman, and Superman—through their movies and animated shows, and with time I grew to love other characters, like the working-class magus John Constantine from the Hellblazer series and Green Lantern […]

Just Keep Swimming: An Internship Reflection

One year went by and I was still struggling to find an internship. The quest to land a professional opportunity in the communications field as an international student tested my nerves and shook my confidence deeply. Up to this point, leaving my home, entering a shark cage without knowing how to swim, and jumping out […]

Around the Table with Shelley Scalzo Brown

Welcome to Around the Table, a regular series where we talk to fascinating people in our network and share the incredible work they are doing in their community. Pull up a chair and join us for conversation and connection. Name: Shelley Scalzo Brown, Operations and Risk Management Leader, specializing in Corporate Safety, Environmental Management, Business […]

Embracing the Unknown

When I came to Avid Core, not only was I starting a new chapter in my life, but I was also at a crossroads. I had just started my first semester of graduate school at American University working towards a masters in a completely different field than either of my undergraduate degrees. I started living […]

Reflecting on Avid Core’s 4-Day Workweek

Virginia Quiambao Arroyo and Amanda Roberts are co-founders of Avid Core, Inc, a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Small, Woman, and Minority-owned (SWaM)-certified communications firm based out of Woodbridge, Virginia. As a “people first” company, Avid Core consistently tries to explore ways through which to improve transparency in the things we do—both in terms of […]