We are happy to introduce Purnima Kasthuri Janarthanan as our Communications Intern for this fall semester. A native of Coimbatore, India, Purnima is a communication management graduate student at UAB. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering in 2014. Due to her passion for Public Relations, she gravitated toward activities related to PR during her sophomore year and chose to stick to the field ever since. Most recently Purnima completed an internship with UAB University Relations where she worked with various PR specialists writing news releases and briefs for UAB News, simultaneously pitching them to the external media.

Purnima will assist Sara Davies, communications specialist, with developing content for the website, newsletter, media relations outreach, and new communications initiatives.