(It’s Norwegian, I think)
Jake Trygstad (It’s Norwegian, I think)
I’m a Communication and Media Studies major at the University of Michigan passionate about making data insights digestible and applicable to creative strategy and content creation. If you’ve got a position in media planning, data storytelling, or copywriting, I’d love to join your team!
As a lifelong Michigander coming up in Chicago’s creative strategy agencies, I know that a smile only gets you so far in this city — so I’ve been cutting my teeth in the Communication Honors Thesis Program writing research about public health campaigns, creating social media campaigns for the family business @ Robbinswood Assisted Living on Facebook, learning the ropes in internships programs at places like the Kent County Road Commission and Kindred Marketing, and working on a Google Careers Certificate in Data Analytics. I’m a Dean’s List student, a member of the Interdisciplinary Honors Program and the Beta Rho chapter of the National Communication Honor Society, and in high school, I was voted most likely to distastefully list superlatives on a pre-professional website. Uncanny!
The media landscape is changing faster than we can pin it down. The consumers, the products, and how messages are received will look entirely unrecognizable to us before we know it, and it is these rapid evolutions that make me love data analytics and creative strategy; because when we can use the wealth of data at our fingertips to connect people with with what they really want to see, inspiring connections emerge.
My long-term goal is to lead a team of creatives and analysts in an agency and produce collaborative work that speaks to the audience and our times.
In my free time, I like to perform in plays, luxuriate in the sun, and practice my Japanese. よろしくおねがいします
Now, I’m working as a Research Assistant for We Rise Together with professors from Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business. I assist in helping organize materials for marketing analysis of Chicago small businesses.
Connect with me!
jaketrygstad@gmail.com
