Tinley Park High School Alum Wins PR Fellowship At Roosevelt

TINLEY PARK, IL — A Tinley Park High School alum has won a fellowship from a global public relations industry. Tyler Bearden, 20, of Tinley Park is one of nine Roosevelt University students to win the award from the Golin public relations agency, which celebratesdiversity and inclusion of people from diverse backgrounds according to a news release.

Golin, a global PR agency headquartered in Chicago, started the prestigious fellowship program with Roosevelt in 2019 as a way to carry on agency founder and late PR industry pioneer Al Golin’s legacy of diversity and inclusion.

The fellowship will introduce Bearden and eight other Roosevelt student fellows from diverse backgrounds to the latest practices and trends in the industry and provide them with opportunities for networking, internships and mentoring with major companies and senior PR executives.

“I think I can be very innovative. I tend to see things in creative ways,” said Bearden, who is currently an account management intern for the advertising agency Rubin Postaer and Associates in Chicago. As a Golin Fellow, Bearden hopes to learn more about the communications field.

Bearden is a 2017 graduate of Tinley Park High School, where she played volleyball. She is currently studying for her bachelor’s degree in integrated marketing communications at Roosevelt and will graduate in May.

“We are proud of Bearden as one of our student fellows and have high hopes for what she can accomplish,” said Marian Azzaro, associate professor of integrated marketing communications and a coordinator of the fellowship program at Roosevelt.

“She and all of the fellows selected for this program are among the best of Roosevelt’s students and are representatives of our next generation of progressive and ethical leaders aligned with the University’s social justice mission.”