Straight Talking with Kelly
“Where Real Conversations Happen”

Episode #8
Topic: New Course-Fashion Workplace and Career Essentials

Welcome to Straight Talking with Kelly Armstrong where you will meet the most talented, intelligent, and creative people who come to share tips, resources, and knowledge on various topics. The guest comes from a magnitude of industries that include Education, Music, Television, Theater, Fashion, Culinary Arts, Hospitality, Health and Wellness, Mental Health, Community Advocates, and much more!

Join me and my guest former fashion students Amy Auerbach, Paige Mughannam, and Tiffany La of City College of San Francisco along with Arya Zarrinkelk, Employment and Training Specialist. We will be discussing Fash 138 Workforce and Career Essentials which is a new course being offered at City College and how it gives fashion students an edge when seeking employment.

To find out how to enroll in this course visit our website at www.ccsf.edu/fashion
Or contact the instructor: Kelly Armstrong karmstro@ccsf.edu

Guest Contact Information:

Amy Auerbach
Website auerfoto.com
Instagram @auerstyle
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-auerbach/

Paige Mughannam
Instagram: @calamity_caller
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pmughannam/
Portfolio: https://witchcraftbypaige.com

Tiffany La
Instagram: @imtiffanyla
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyla/
Website: tiffanyladesigns.com

Arya Zarrinkelk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/careerartist/
About Kelly Armstrong Your Host:
Email Address: Imagemaker86@hotmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelly_k_beauty_korner
Online Scheduling
https://calendly.com/imagemakerkelly
Professional and Personal Training Programs
https://thinktq.com/index.cfm?sa=111917
Skin Care and Makeup
https://www.floriroberts.com/?ref=karenarmstrong

Kelly Armstrong has more than 25 years of experience in public relations and image consulting.
As the founder of Artist Development/Imagemaking, Armstrong enjoys helping people “be their best, by looking and feeling their best” in body and spirit by giving advice about skin care, makeup, grooming, overall personal appearance, presentation skills, and job readiness training, she also teaches Image Consulting at City College of San Francisco.

Armstrong has worked with KKSF Radio, partnered with the Plant Recording Studio and stores like Wilkes Bashford, she has dressed artists for album covers and videos, freelanced as a makeup artist with clients that included CBS 5 (KPIX), San Francisco’s Mayor Willie Brown, and taught makeup classes through CCSF Extended Education Program. Faz Restaurants, Marriott Marquis Hotel, Chevron, Renaissance Entrepreneurial Center, Independent Living, Brookside Hospital and San Francisco Unified School District, and others have also benefited from Armstrong’s public relations and image consulting expertise.
Working in the underserved Bayview Hunter’s Point neighborhood in San Francisco, Armstrong is the Founder of the Primed & Prepped: A Hospitality Management/Culinary Arts Mentoring and Job Training Program at the Bayview Hunters Point YMCA. The purpose of the program is to help mitigate the barriers to employment to young males and females of color.
Formerly on San Francisco State University’s Hospitality Management Advisory Board she chaired the PR Committee, she was a part of the Program Advisory Committee (PAC) with SAE Expression Media College. Armstrong has previously served as a Board of Governors with the Recording Academy, she created, and co-chaired the Urban Outreach Committee of the Recording Academy (a.k.a. The Grammys) and she was an inaugural member of KQED’s Community Advisory Panel. She has volunteered with The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI).
Armstrong is married, resides in San Francisco, and has a passion for food, fashion, and music.