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WHAT'S NEW This fall, we welcomed a new executive director and a new class! After an intensive, year-long search, we were thrilled to nd the perfect person for the next generation of leadership at the Brandcenter: Vann Graves. Vann has 20+ years of experience as an art director/creative director working for great agencies like BBDO and McCann. He was most recently the Chief Creative O cer at JWT in Atlanta. Read more about Vann in Adweek, check out this Creative Q&A with him in Richmond BizSense, and listen to a podcast interview with him on We Are Next. We also welcomed 106 new students to the Class of 2020 at Orientation. Our incoming class represents 23 states and a variety of backgrounds and life experiences (everything from communications and studio art majors to business and geography majors). Their average age is 25, and 73% of them had prior work experience. They are 25% minority and 61% female.
