This Week We Feature Young Professional Feliza D. Fenty
This Week’s Young Professional, Feliza D. Fenty, is endowed with an energetic and bubbly personality but is also a hardworking communications practitioner with a range of interests from the arts to humanitarian pursuits.
Feliza attended the Bregado Flax Educational Centre in Virgin Gorda and H. Lavity Stoutt Community College where she did an Associate’s Degree in General Studies with a concentration in English. Feliza then moved to Texas Christian University where she completed a Bachelor’s Degree in 2011 Strategic Communication.
Before leaving for school abroad, she worked with the Deputy Governor’s office and during her years of study overseas she interned with Samaritan House, a US government funded housing agency.
Feliza disclosed that her tenure with Samaritan House allowed her to work a lot with minority groups and members of the Hispanic community and this helped to boost not just her interest and capacity for humanitarian work but also her Spanish as well.
Always displaying an interest in Journalism, Feliza said she knew what she had wanted to study for some time and after doing some additional research into the subject area, she decided to settle on Public Relations. “I thought it was something that I could be very good at,” she remarked.
Feliza is currently an Information Officer with the Department of Information and Public Relations where she is seconded to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Labour.
Our Young Professional is responsible for much of the public communication emanating from the Ministry and the Departments that are governed by the Ministry.
One of the exciting parts of the job is being able to travel and work from the many different areas in the Virgin Islands, she disclosed. Her job takes her to many parts of the Territory that she felt she may not have otherwise travelled to.
“I get to learn about really interesting, educational and sometimes inspiring things that are going on here in the Virgin Islands, things that a lot of people may or may not know are happening in terms of the environment and advancements being made in our local industries, I get to see them and to witness first hand,” she said.
Her favourite part of the job though, is creating advertisements. Coming up with ideas, being creative and thinking outside of the box to meet the audience required are some of the challenges that she relishes on a day to day basis.
Her vocation, she explained, goes hand in hand with her knack for ‘putting things together and making people look good’. Describing herself as a very outgoing and ‘people-person’, Feliza disclosed that she felt gifted with the ability to woo and or to win over others.
Now the Public Relations Officer of the Rotaract Club of Tortola, Feliza has bestowed a resounding endorsement on the group in saying that she has found a new love with this bunch of positive individuals. “I really, really love it. I was looking for a group of positive people that were doing positive things and having fun and this is exactly the kind of club that it is.”
Feliza is also a member of the CADA Players, a dance group that has been popular in the Virgin Islands for several years.
She counts her parents and her foundation in the church as helping her in many ways to become the person that she is today. “My father has always pushed me to express myself artistically and my mother has always pushed me to excel at school.”
Offering advice to young persons, Feliza said, “I really want to tell future generations to never give up on their dreams and aspirations. The BVI is a small territory filled with opportunity and possibilities.”
“Do not allow yourself to be overwhelmed by circumstances,” she charged, “when I first left high school, I never imagined that someone like me would get to go away and study something so fun, interesting and worthwhile.”
She added, “I want the future youth of our territory to always put their best foot forward in whatever job or study they may have. Build a reputation of ‘responsibility’ and ‘reliability’.” “Make it so that if there is anything people can say about you it is that, you always do the very best you can.”
25 Responses to “This Week We Feature Young Professional Feliza D. Fenty”
Smart, sweet and cool all wrapped up in one cute package.
Congrats Feliza!
"A chip off the old block." Which block you asked? Hmmmmmm!