I was fortunate enough to be selected to be a team leader in my Capstone class. The Bateman Competition is a Public Relations Campaign competition put on every Spring by the national PRSA association. The year I completed TCU had two teams competing. Usually a brand organization is picked ad teams create campaigns. My year our organization was SVA (Student Veterans Association). Our goal was to raise awareness on issues facing student veterans, promote assisting veterans more and to offer any assistance we could to veterans. My team worked with businesses to gain donations, host events and raise awareness. We also worked closely with student veterans, professors who are veterans and the TCU Student Veterans Taskforce.

My team and I met with the TCU Student Veteran Taskforce and several student veteran and the key thing we learned was that they wanted to be seen as more than a vet.