Speaking at East Bay SCendOff 2019

On Aug 3 in the East Bay, I welcomed freshmen and transfer students to USC with the warmest words of wisdom and loudest @usctmb horns. And our alumni club gave away 15 scholarships to hardworking students.

I also got to takeover the @uscalumni account to share my story with the global Trojan Family!

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🗣🗣 This is an Alumna Takeover! 😂✌🏾💛❤️ Hi, I’m @joyofodu (‘18) and I’ll be driving the boat today to show you what life is like as a recent alumna. My mission in life is to empower underrepresented communities, both on and offline. I graduated into a role at Instagram as a Brand Marketer. As an Annenberg, Marshall and Dornsife student, I was involved in the USC African American Cinema Society, Residential Education, Annenberg Admissions and Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Tonight, I get to share my journey with Bay Area students and families at the #SCendOff

A post shared by USC Alumni Association (@uscalumni) on Aug 3, 2019 at 8:46am PDT

You can still watch the takeover as a highlight on @uscalumni!

To hear the address, click through to my IGTV below:

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I love speaking to students! Tips for your first freshman or transfer year at USC – addressed to students, family, alumni, staff and faculty at the #SCendOff #USCTrojans #FightOn #USC

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I’m glad that I was given an open platform to share my mistakes & learnings with students & their families – the reactions that came afterward warmed my heart. Folks were out here giving me hugs! I could barely believe it. Somehow an even better experience than Year 1.

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Alumna @joyofodu here: The #SCendOff of @eastbaytrojans is complete ✨✌🏾❤️💛 This year, we welcomed freshmen and transfer students with the warmest words of wisdom and loudest @usctmb horns. And gave away 15 scholarships to hardworking students. So excited for next year, and the rest of our Trojan Journeys (Hint: Lifelong) Fight On!

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Choose your health: this was the biggest mistake I made during my time at USC. I put what I was doing and my aspirations above my own well-being, until I couldn’t do anything anymore. 😔 I couldn’t get up out of bed. I was forced to start listening to my body. Workaholism and perfectionism is no longer cute. 🙅🏾‍♀️❌🤢Team No Sleep can have its jersey back. I come first, and so should you.

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Fight On,

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As a celebrated voice actor and Creative Executive, Joy Ofodu has drawn over 30M views to her original digital comedy content and countless more to inclusion-centered, global marketing campaigns at Instagram. Under her self-titled media company, she has grown a highly-engaged community of more than 200,000 online daters and meditators in just two years. Joy is the host of Dating Unsettled, an audio show designed to validate women daters, available now on all podcast platforms. Joy’s voice can be heard in her partnerships with HBO Max, Adult Swim, The Daily Shine, Skybound Entertainment, Meta, Credit Karma, Netflix, DIRECTV, Upenndo! and more View all posts by Joy Ofodu

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Speaking at East Bay SCendOff 2019

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