When Bria Waters transferred to East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania she was a criminal justice major. But a few months in, she realized it was not the field for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to do something that I was really passionate about,\u201d she said. Having worked in food service for years, Waters knew she wanted to develop her career in customer service. She changed her major to hotel, restaurant & tourism management and began to look for ways to get involved on campus within her major.<\/p>\n
Speaking with a friend, Waters learned about the National Society of Minorities in Hospitality (NSMH) organization. After studying the organization, she decided to introduce a chapter to ESU\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n
Focusing on recruitment for the organization, developing a budget and working on a constitution, Waters had her work cut out for her. But she also had help. The vice president and co-founder of ESU\u2019s chapter of NSMH Janese Felder, a senior majoring in communication studies and sport management, was with Waters every step of the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe completed every national requirement in the fall of 2015,\u201d Waters said. \u201cWe absolutely love this organization and everything that it has to offer, and we are so excited to be a part of it at ESU.\u201d<\/p>\n
Their passion and excitement was recognized at 27th<\/sup> Annual National Society of Minorities Conference, where the ESU chapter received the Best New Chapter award.<\/p>\n \u201cIt just shows what a little bit of hard work and determination can do for you,\u201d Waters said. \u201cESU is a name that will not be forgotten at NSMH.\u201d<\/p>\n The conference, which was held February 4-7, was a networking opportunity for students and industry professionals. Waters and Felder attended workshops that were hosted by Hyatt, Marriott, Sodexo, Starwood, Aramark, Hilton and the Four Seasons. The workshops gave them the opportunity to network with NSMH professionals in the field. They met CEOs, general managers and recruitment managers from some of the top companies in the hospitality field.<\/p>\n The conference also offered on-the-spot interviews and internship opportunities. Both Waters and Felder secured internships for this summer as a result. Waters will be working as a food and beverage intern with Sodexo and Felder will be a food and beverage intern for Aramark.<\/p>\n Waters believes changing her major her freshman year was the best decision she has made to date.<\/p>\n \u201cThe best feeling is to work every day for something I am passionate about,\u201d she said. \u201cThe members of NSMH at ESU have been a tremendous help in making our chapter the best chapter of the year\u2014we could not have done it without them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bria Waters and Janese Felder started a chapter of the National Society of Minorities in Hospitality (NSMH) at ESU. Their passion and excitement for the organization was recognized at 27th Annual National Society of Minorities Conference, where the ESU chapter received the Best New Chapter award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13616,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions\/13616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}