To: Barnard Students
From: The Offices of Alumnae Affairs, Career Development, and Public Affairs
FIRST YEARS, SOPHOMORES AND JUNIORS:
YOU ARE INVITED ON THURSDAY, MAY 12 TO HEAR ABOUT AN EXCITING INTERNSHIP AND TELEVISION OPPORTUNITY WITH SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN, BARNARD CLASS OF 1993.
SHE WILL ANNOUNCE AN OPEN CASTING CALL FOR STUDENTS FOR A NEW SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE-MTV "APPRENTICE-TYPE" TV SHOW WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE MS. RUBINSTEIN'S PROTÉGÉ
Where: Brooks Living Room
When: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12
This coming Thursday evening, May 12, at 5:30 p.m. in Brooks Living Room, the Barnard student community is invited to join Seventeen editor-in-chief and Barnard alumna Atoosa Rubenstein, who will discuss a new Seventeen -MTV television venture and the opportunity for one student to become her protégé at the largest circulation teen magazine during the summer of 2006. She will invite students to attend an open casting call for the show this coming Saturday, May 14. The new television program, of which Rubenstein is executive producer, will give one student the opportunity to work with her, win a college scholarship and be featured on the cover of Seventeen . Rubenstein will talk about moving to the top of the career ladder during the event. All Barnard students are welcome to participate in this exciting discussion.
Ms. Rubenstein, at age 26, became the youngest editor-in-chief in the history of Hearst publishing with the launch of CosmoGirl ! She worked for magazines throughout her junior and senior years at Barnard, first as an intern at Sassy magazine. After graduation, she took a job as a fashion assistant at Cosmopolitan and within five years had been promoted to senior fashion editor under the renowned editor Helen Gurley Brown. In 1998, the president of Hearst asked her to create a new teen title. Within 48 hours, she presented the prototype for CosmoGirl! Since then, she has been featured as one of Crain's New York Business' "40 Under 40" leaders and is known as one of the top editors in the industry.
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