On 24 February I attended a networking event celebrating black history month. A virtual event by the one club. In celebration of Black History Month, The One Club hosted a conversation between advertising legend Carol H. Williams and rising star Jamal Parker, moderated by Matt ‘BK’ Augusti n.Ms. Williams is a visionary known for her iconic ad campaigns such as Secret antiperspirant “Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman” and Pillsbury’s “Say Hello to Poppin’ Fresh Dough.” Jamal Parker is an international poetry slam champion, award-winning author, and One School Graduate who currently works at Apple as a Copywriter. Also moderator, Matt ‘BK’ Augustin, Director of Brand/Creative Strategy at FaZe Clan, and an alumnus of The One Club’s Creative Boot Camp program, facilitated this conversation. It didn’t say how many people were in the meeting. The host, on the other hand, allows students to ask questions. The students’ questions and comments continued to pour in, requiring responses for the speakers. It was fascinating to learn about the presenters’ personal experiences and how they deal with difficult situations to achieve their dreams. We come from many different countries to learn new things and to learn from our peers to reach our goals. After attending the event, I received an email from one of the clubs inviting me to attend their next events.
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Ms. Williams starts from a point where she said we don’t know who we are, which is a journey in and of itself, and what she was thinking in Chicago. she did enjoy bringing dreams from her head into this plane of reality, which is a unique experience in and of itself because many people know how to dream. “They simply never take the steps necessary to make it a reality for themselves, so in the process of learning how, and it is learning, you must remember that when you have a talent, it is only a potential, a possibility. “
“The ability to take that possibility and make it a reality is a journey of learning, studying, and working hard, and as a result of doing that, I landed an internship at Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago, and then she got so she wrote a campaign right there nothing’s quite as good as biscuits in the morning on that summer internship, and the door opened, and she never looked back. Ms. Williams, Really love it, and you dropped so many pearls in there as well, like how talent is nothing more than potential unless you put it into practice, and how creativity can open so many doors, as she knows from her career.”
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Jamal Parker talks about when he began writing while he was in the third grade and is a spoken word poet and published novelist. He created this bizarre story about a spaghetti monster, which his third-grade teacher thought was ridiculous and fascinating, so she showed it to the rest of the class. His mother said, “OK, let’s enroll you in a magnet school,” as he was passing by third-grade instructors in the hallway. So he was engaged in a magnet school program and he started writing in Japan because his previous stepfather was in the military, so he grew up in Japan and then moved back to the United States, where he went to a magnet school program for creative writing from 6th to 11th grade. Around the age of 16, I became active in a poetry slam. He went to Temple University in Philadelphia and became the artistic director of his poetry group. He also won several national poetry slams. He was just like, “I’m going to be a poet and I’m going to tour and do all these things,” and that’s exactly what he was doing.” “He was a postgraduate student who was touring colleges and universities lecturing about literacy and spoken word curriculum when the pandemic struck, and he was unable to travel or perform. But because he wrote and had marketing positions in various NGOs, the next step was to have him attempt copywriting and then the one school. He enrolled for this because he feels that he can take his niche for writing and attempt to push it into the lane of like advertising, so he applied for the one school, which graduated after a hard oh 16 weeks.”
“But he graduated with honors and landed his first job at translation Llc in Brooklyn, where he did some cool campaign work and they trusted him as a junior to put him in the front of the room with clients and stuff because they were like oh he’s a performer he likes presenting like let’s just trust this guy and did some opportunities with them, which put him on the radar with ag color young guns and a couple of other things.”
“It was all due to the epidemic and just trusting his instincts and who he was as a creative individual, so shout out to the one club for the one school. Jamal Parker is an international poetry slam champion, award-winning author, teaching artist, and copywriter. He also secretly raps once a month, and you can find him playing Super Smash Bros Ultimate on any given weekend.”
“He is currently a Creative at Apple. His work explores race, masculinity, mental health, spirituality, hip hop, incarceration, and police brutality while also platforming Black resilience and joy. As a performer, he views art as a method to critique, entertain, and educate audiences with elements of activism, political satire, and escapism. “Jamal is a two-time TEDx Speaker / Performer and 2017 Philly Pigeon Grand Slam Champion. He is also a two-time International Poetry Slam Champion formerly winning both Brave New Voices and the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational. He is a graduate of the One Club’s ONE School Program, where he finished with Honors as one of the Top 3 students on the East Coast. He also loves his family, superhero movies, his Playstation 5, and Nintendo Switch.
Jamal Parker
