Carol wright9/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Looking back, the alumna realizes that creating an entire online magazine “wasn’t a necessary” step to growing as a photographer, but over time, her interest in the journalistic aspects of running Nyota overshadowed her initial drive to build a photography career. ![]() “How do I build a portfolio?” she pondered. “How do I even get started? Like, what’s the point before even being taken seriously enough to shoot for a brand? How do I even get good enough to get to that point?” After sitting with these questions and surveying her interests in magazines and photography, she settled on building her own publication as the perfect medium to best express herself and catalogue her work. Social media was her window into a world in which a young person was able to shoot for reputable brands and “be taken seriously as a photographer.” Wright had already been dreaming of having her photos featured on glossy magazine covers, and the realization that she could have access to the editorial world as a young person got her gears turning. ![]() However, at Nyota’s inception, it’s newly-minted editor-in-chief embraced humble beginnings, with her own sister acting as creative director. As a high school senior passionate about photography, Wright was inspired by magazines like Teen Vogue, and by seeing her peers on Instagram developing their professional brands as content creators. Wright founded Nyota, a magazine that shines a light on up-and-coming stars in music, fashion and culture when she was a senior in high school. The five-year-old publication, with its compelling visuals, regularly displays the images of popular stars on its covers. ![]() She is a recent graduate with a rich academic career behind her, studded with her involvement in PRSSA as website director, service as an SOC ambassador, membership with the AU Photo Collective, and more. A member of the Class of 2020, Wright was part of the cohort of students who spent the last of their undergraduate collegiate time in quarantine due to COVID-19. When asked how she would describe the post-graduate journey into professional life, amidst a pandemic, she summed it up in one word: “whirlwind.” In a similar fashion as many other recent SOC graduates, Wright has made impressive strides as a communication professional, as the editor-in-chief and founder of her own magazine, Nyota, and a soon-to-be graduate student at the prestigious Harvard Business School. I called and spoke to a Carol Wright customer service agent today who told me that when I bought my top I was automatically enrolled in this $14.95 a month plan, and I kept telling her that I never even knew about it and I didn't enroll in it at all! She claimed after my father called and asked for this to be canceled and to get a refund, (will see what happens) that they are giving me a refund and canceled my membership fee that I never of course even signed up for or even knew about.Not long ago, you might have seen Carol Wright around the School of Communication. I had bought a nice winter robe from Carol Wright Gifts and in June I bought only one top for about $13, I never was told or asked about signing up for any membership for any fee, but my father just called me and told me that I was being charged $14.a95 a month for a membership that I never even knew about and never signed up for! I see there are other complaints from customers of Carol Wright Gifts that said they did the same thing to them, and I will never give them any of my business again and they really should be out of business for scamming and ripping people off like this! The same exact terrible thing happened to me and countless other customers of Carol Wright! ![]()
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