Polly Irungu

Multimedia Journalist + social media producer
New York, New York
View my work at pollyirungu.com || @pollyirungu

About

Polly Irungu

Audio
Photography
Videography
Editing
Writing
Producing
Facebook Live
Social Media
Marketing
Public Speaking
Organizing
Leadership
Event Production
Sports Production
Music/Video Production
Production Assistant
Hosting

Polly Irungu is a multimedia journalist and social media producer based in New York. Most recently, she completed two insightful internships working as an online intern for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and a social media intern for NPR. During her final year of school, she was a social media producer and digital content creator for the University of Oregon - School of Journalism Communications team, a campus editor-at-large at HuffPost, and a freelance production assistant for the PAC-12 Networks and Fox Sports.

She has also written as a contributor for Hashtag Sports, CNN iReport, Rolling Out, and HerAgenda. A National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) fellow in 2015 and 2016, she participated in the NABJ and National Association of Hispanic Journalists student newsroom to provide coverage of their historic joint convention for NABJ Monitor and Latino Reporter. She also served on the the 2016-17 NABJ student representative board for Region IV.

Previously, she has worked for Def Jam Recordings, Dell, TrackTown USA, EP Entertainment LLC, Artistic Outlet Media, and Adobe. She made the 2013 and 2014 Daily Emerald 25 Ducks Who Will Change the World list, and in May 2015 she was named the Women4Africa International Young Achiever of the Year.

You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat @pollyirungu.