Grace Pechacek
Grace Pechacek was the Editor-In-Chief of the yearbook and a videographer on the video broadcast production staff during her senior year of high school at Bellevue West. She continues to be involved in journalism during college at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln where she is a double major in both advertising and public relations and broadcasting.
Through her college she began writing for an experience lab program called the Heartland Pulse where she writes stories about small businesses in Nebraska.
“I love meeting everyone, like all the new people around me, it’s super fun,” Pechacek said. “Everyone’s so sweet here in the Midwest.”
Pechacek works as a social media intern at Southwestern Advantage, an internship program for students around the U.S.
“I was their intern last semester and I would make social media posts and go to their events and just promote it and get their name out there a little bit,” Pechacek said.
According to Pechacek, her plans after college as of now consist of her working with social media at an advertising firm or broadcasting at a news station. “I take those things I learned from the journalism department in high school and I apply that to what I do today,” Pechacek said. “Especially when I’m out on the field interviewing people and even just talking to people. I feel a little bit ahead of other people just because of all the things I did in the Journalism Department at Bellevue West. I feel like they definitely prepared me for the field that I’m in.”
