{"id":1692,"date":"2025-07-16T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:00:23","slug":"osu-extension-intern-uses-media-to-capture-the-heart-of-marion-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2025\/07\/16\/osu-extension-intern-uses-media-to-capture-the-heart-of-marion-county\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU Extension intern uses media to capture the heart of Marion County"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi there! My name is Emily Killebrew! Next year at Western Oregon University, I will have
\ncompleted my business major, with a concentration in marketing and minors in
\ncommunications studies and English studies. I am exploring career options that may be
\nhumanitarian, marketing and\/or writing. This program will help me learn more about myself
\nand gain more experience in my passions, such as working with photos and sharing the
\nmemories those photos contain. Finding the best photos that have perfect clarity is a value I
\nkeep when posting on social media. After all, they say photos are worth more than a thousand
\nwords.<\/p>\n

\n \"\"\n
Emily Killebrew snaps photos of the Marion County meat goat showmanship class at the Marion County Fair. Photo: Elvira Alvarez<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

I used to work with Jared Hibbard-Swanson and Emily Griffith at the Marion and Polk County
\nFood Share Youth Farm every Friday for the summer after my freshman year of high school. We
\ntransformed a big pile of mulch with pitch forks into a mulch path between the south crop
\nbeds, took care of and harvested the plants that grew on the farm and we made lunch out of
\nour harvest. Overall, it was fun and rewarding.<\/p>\n

One of my main goals for this summer is to verbally communicate in a way that relays the
\nmessage intended for another person to receive. As an external thinker, I struggle to think
\nbefore I speak, use intentional words and get to the point. I would like for others not to be
\noffended by me on accident and for me to speak more professionally.<\/p>\n

The Oregon State University Extension Service in Marion County is in need of county
\nawareness. This summer I will join events and projects that the Marion County Extension Office
\nOutreach Coordinators oversee. I will ask many questions about their work and how they
\ncommunicate, present and edit outreach style posts on the OSU Extension Service, Marion
\nCounty Facebook page and hopefully create an Instagram account to reach younger audiences
\nin hopes to increase public awareness overall.<\/p>\n

So far, I have begun organizing the Marion County Box photo folder that has photos previously
\ntaken by the Marion County Extension Service Staff. I traveled with Collins Bugingo to the Grass
\nSeed and Mint Grower Fields in the outskirts of Salem and into Silverton. And I have walked
\naround the warm, noisy livestock pens and the cool, calm Columbia Building tables at the
\nMarion County fair (as shown in the photo). Finally, I have begun posting on the Marion
\nCounty Facebook Page for the Marion County fair, and soon I will begin posting subjects related
\nto the outings I have been and will be a part of.<\/p>\n

Thank you for taking me aboard. I am looking forward to getting to know the Marion County
\nstaff and being a part of varied events this summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi there! My name is Emily Killebrew! Next year at Western Oregon University, I will have completed my business major, with a concentration in marketing and minors in communications studies and English studies. I am exploring career options that may be humanitarian, marketing and\/or writing. This program will help me learn more about myself and… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,137,65,50],"tags":[299],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-h","category-livestock","category-marion-county","category-social-media","tag-emily-killebrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}