Alumni Spotlight
Priya Nair
B.F.A. '15, Graphic Design & Interactive Media · Creative Director, a Minneapolis advertising agency
Priya Nair spent her four years in the Graphic Design & Interactive Media program building the portfolio that got her first agency job before graduation. She has led creative teams at two Minneapolis agencies and now serves as creative director overseeing a twelve-person team.
She returns each spring to sit on the program's senior portfolio review jury. “I still remember how nervous I was presenting mine,” she says. “Now I get to be the person who says 'this is good, ship it.'”
Advice for current students
“Build your portfolio from day one, not senior year. The work you are proudest of by graduation is rarely the first thing you made.” — Priya Nair
Stay connected
Priya Nair is one of several hundred graduates listed in the alumni mentor network, where current students can request a short conversation with an alum working in their field. Mentors set their own availability — some take one student a term, some take several — through the network's opt-in matching form.
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