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        Courtside career: Marketing alumna lives out her dreams at big games

        April 3, 2025 By Mallorie McCoy, Auburn Alumni Assoc.

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        Alumna Taylor Kkorn, Marketing

        Watching Auburn sports teams navigate through each season is an exciting experience for all Tiger fans, but having a courtside seat to the action like Harbert College of Business graduate Taylor Korn (marketing ’22) makes it even more exhilarating.

        Korn is the director of social media for The Next Round, a fast-growing sports podcast based out of Birmingham, Ala. focused on covering the Southeastern Conference. Now in her third year, she says working for the podcast company is her dream job—a position that allows her to travel to almost all of Auburn’s football and men’s basketball home games.

        She credits skills she learned in her social media marketing course for helping advance her career.

        “Auburn introduced me to resources that I wouldn’t have had otherwise,” said Korn. “The method behind the madness is strategizing the way you post things, search engine optimization, and the things you don’t think about when using social media as an individual, and more so how a company can use it.”

        Read the full story Courtside Career, which was published by the Auburn Alumni Association.