Jill of All Trades Samantha Troisi shares her experiences working in the news and entertainment industry.
by Andres Leon
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amantha Troisi is a student at Long Beach State University who is graduating with a bachelor’s degree in public relations this spring. Troisi is also the current president of LBSU’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America and the team leader of the 2021 LBSU Bateman team. She is a well-traveled person, coming from Boston then moving to Los Angeles just before graduating high school.
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Troisi previously attended El Camino College in Torrance for an associate’s degree in journalism before moving back to the east coast, New York. Years later, Troisi transferred in as a journalism student to LBSU. She decided to pivot towards public relations to finish her education. “I wanted to be more well-rounded in terms of my knowledge,” she shared, “There was the other side of business that I wanted to have a better
understanding of.” Troisi worked 15 years in hospitality before deciding to come back to school for her degree in public relations. She described her career outlook, “The dedication of life was a lot… 14 hour days, 30-plus days in a row without a day off. Every holiday, every weekend night, that would’ve been my life no matter how far I was going.” At 21 years old, Troisi worked in marketing for TapOut, eventually being moved to work-
PHOTO COURTESY OF SAMANTHA TROISI
