About George Velky

I’m George Velky, a 2025 grad­u­ate study­ing Jour­nal­ism and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut. I grew up in Min­neso­ta, and after my time at UConn, I’m open mind­ed to see where my next chap­ter will take me.

My aim is to start a career in pub­lic rela­tions. At UConn, I am cur­rent­ly an intern at Uni­ver­si­ty Com­mu­ni­ca­tions as a writ­ing and pub­lic­i­ty assis­tant. My respon­si­bil­i­ties includ pitch­ing, writ­ing and pho­tograph­ing sto­ries pub­lished in UConn Today, the uni­ver­si­ty newslet­ter. My sto­ries have been shared by the uni­ver­si­ty on its social media accounts, includ­ing Insta­gram and LinkedIn.

I have writ­ten pro­mo­tion­al sto­ries cov­er­ing con­tent includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to the UConn March­ing band play­ing at a Patri­ots game, home­com­ing events on cam­pus, the pres­ti­gious actu­ar­i­al pro­gram and a stu­dent run van ser­vice for dis­abled mem­bers of the com­mu­ni­ty.

I have expe­ri­ence reach­ing out to pro­fes­sion­als and indus­try lead­ers and inter­view­ing them for print, audio, and video con­tent. For exam­ple, I inter­viewed Andrew Niedziel­s­ki, the direc­tor of the actu­ar­i­al pro­gram at UConn for my sto­ry focused on the accom­plish­ments of the pro­gram.

I am famil­iar with pro­fes­sion­al web­site for­mat­ting using Word­Press. Oth­er tech­ni­cal skills I have include AP Style, Adobe Pre­mier Pro and Adobe Audi­tion.

I am a per­son­able and nat­ur­al leader who thrives in a team envi­ron­ment. I have held numer­ous posi­tions in Tau Kap­pa Epsilon Fra­ter­ni­ty. These include risk man­ag­er, broth­er­hood chair, schol­ar­ship chair, phil­an­thropy com­mit­tee mem­ber and social media com­mit­tee mem­ber.

Con­tact me at georgevelky5@gmail.com or con­nect with me via LinkedIn.