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  • rachel peniche mep instructor, weddings

    Instructor Profile – Meeting and Event Planning – Rachel Peniche

    Rachel Peniche started Plan It San Diego, an event planning and coordination company specializing in weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs and other corporate, political and charity events in 2000. The social aspect and working with people and getting to be a part of people’s life experience is...

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  • Gershwin

    Instructor Profile – Meeting and Event Planning – Rachel Gershwin

    Q. Who is Rachel Gershwin and why is she a meeting and event planner? My event planning experience began when I was a kid; being a natural planner, I tended to take charge of family parties, holidays and other gatherings. I find that most event...

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  • The Creative Class

    The Creative Class

    What’s the one skill a person needs for any job? Creativity. Of course, we need basic left-brain (logical) skills to perform in most positions – like the ability to budget and calculate, and to follow instructions. For some professions, the necessary skills are mostly black and white – like computer program­ming or accounting.

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  • Meetings Go Green

    Meetings Go Green

    Seeing that green is everywhere – it’s time that meeting and event planning embrace the movement. The carbon footprint of meetings and events can be heavy – what are you doing to lighten the impression?

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  • Discover Marketing and Media Planning through SDSU

    Discover Marketing and Media Planning through SDSU

    SDSU’s College of Extended Studies will offer two courses in its Professional Certificate in Marketing & Media program in the upcoming weeks. “The Marketing Plan” takes place Mondays, Feb. 28 to March 21 from 6 to 9 p.m., while “Media Planning and Buying” is scheduled...

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