Ithaca College

Ekta Batra ’07, Ronald Lam ’07, and Carolyn Larson ’07 were three of 50 students nationwide to be chosen for the American Advertising Federation's Most Promising Minority Students 2007 program.

The American Advertising Federation (AAF) is the oldest national advertising trade association and represents 50,000 professionals in the advertising industry. The MPMS program is the industry's largest and most comprehensive diversity hiring solution.



This year's 50 graduating advertising seniors represent 34 colleges. The selected students traveled to New York February 6-8 to network, interview, and be honored by some of the top advertising agencies, media companies, and advertisers in the country.



Batra is an integrated marketing communications major from Mumbai, India. Lam is an organizational communication, learning, and design major from New Hyde Park, New York. Larson is from Port Jervis, New York, and is majoring in integrated carketing communications.



The students were nominated by associate professor Scott Hamula.