Maliyah Gregg and Jasir Moody-Awo selected as Career Development Fellows

Maliyah Gregg and Jasir Moody-Awo, both members of the Class of 2024, have been selected as Pennsylvania College of Art & Design’s Career Development Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. They began their positions July 1. 

Established last academic year with inaugural Fellows Alex Eggleston and Jasmyn Stokes, the yearlong Career Development Fellowship centers around several goals: to expand portfolio work, to mentor PCA&D students, and to help lead The Agency, PCA&D’s student-led and student-focused branding and marketing operation which tackles both in-house and community-based projects. “The fellowship focuses on professional development as we discuss entrepreneurship and the necessary steps for the participants to establish themselves and feel confident navigating the business side of the creative industry,” says Justin Phillips, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs. “The Fellows also work to support Career Service events and initiatives.” 

In turn, Moody-Awo and Gregg will themselves be mentored by Phillips and Holly Mosher, Chair of Business in Creative Industry & Director of Distance Education.

Both Gregg and Moody-Awo transferred to PCA&D their senior year after their former institution, Hussian College in Philadelphia, closed its doors. Both Graphic Design majors, they made their mark in that department in just a short time, with Gregg winning the competition to brand the 2024 Senior Show & Celebration. 

And both say they are excited about the opportunities offered by the Fellowship. 

“I learned about the Career Development Fellowship from an email that I had gotten a few weeks before graduation,” Moody-Awo said. “The thing that appealed to me the most about this opportunity was the chance to develop my portfolio and skills in that PCA&D umbrella.”

He’s also looking forward to working with The Agency, and his ultimate goal after the Fellowship would be to land a graphic design position in Lancaster as a result of his Fellowship experience. 

Gregg, meanwhile, was aware of the Fellowship through Stokes and Eggleston’s work. Her own goals for the Fellowship, she said, center primarily around mentorship. 

“I want to be able to teach and aid any students that would help to go to college, networking, and potentially find a job within their interest,” Gregg said. 

Spending the next year working on a passion project, she said, is also an opportunity to “explore different career fields that are out in the world and advance and obtain more knowledge as a designer.”

She currently also is employed as Creative Director by Lancaster-based Attollo Prep, making marketing materials that promote the organization’s mission to help high school students get into college.