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She began as a production coordinator for Univision\u2019s public affairs team in 2011 because of an interest in media production.\u00a0That became her first opportunity to discover her passion and refine her goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fell in love with community outreach and the public effort side,\u201d said Prado. It was then when she began majoring in business, which pushed her to work as a sales and research analyst.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought that my career needed to be aligned with what I was studying,\u201d Prado said. Though that job wasn\u2019t the perfect fit for her, it opened the door to working\u00a0in corporate social responsibility.\u00a0She stepped into the role of operations manager for corporate social responsibility in 2014, and in 2021 became senior director, her current position.<\/p>\n
Although she\u2019s not working in a typical business-side setting, her education from FIU Business has helped her.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike any other corporation, Univision also has a marketing team, they need a strategy, budgets,\u201d said Prado, adding that directing a philanthropy team benefits from accounting and other business skills.<\/p>\n
Prado\u2019s humanitarian work also extends to the Univision Foundation, a\u00a0 501-C3 entity that does more short-term projects, focusing mainly on emergency relief and education. For example, when Mexican band MANA wanted to create scholarships for students, she stepped in to organize and promote it to students who truly needed the help. She also volunteered as a translator with Rise Against Hunger, a global organization working to end world hunger.<\/p>\n
A unique opportunity in giving back. <\/em><\/p>\n Going to school and working was a busy time for Prado, but she learned a lot through it.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was one of the best decisions I made, because it taught me so much, like time management and resilience,\u201d said Prado. \u201cIt gave me a different perspective on what I’m capable of doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Her current role as a member of FIU Business\u2019 alumni board gives her an opportunity to experience some of the campus activities she may have missed, while helping today\u2019s students.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause I was going full time to work\u00a0and school, I didn’t have the opportunity to be involved as much or have the traditional college experience,\u201d said Prado, \u201cand that’s actually the reason why I’m now involved in the board.\u201d<\/p>\n Being a young female professional also shaped much of her experience in the field.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to work extra hard,\u201d she said, \u201cto make sure that people know that you have an understanding of what you’re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n As an immigrant, Prado understands the pressure to pursue an education and career, which fuels her drive for her work in empowering immigrant and underserved communities.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything that I can do volunteering-wise, and any guidance I can give to organizations on how to get information and resources to these communities\u2026.I’m happy to do\u00a0it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The day Claudia Prado (MBA \u201919, BBA \u201916) started\u00a0college\u00a0was the same day she began her career at\u00a0Univision \u2013 a career that\u2019s lasted\u00a0nearly a decade. As\u00a0senior\u00a0director of corporate responsibility, she manages Univision\u2019s social impact campaigns, overseeing their efforts to connect with and help Latino immigrants. It\u2019s an important role, and one of Prado\u2019s many impressive accomplishments, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":35707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35717,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35703\/revisions\/35717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}