Particular Olympics North America communications fellow and athlete reporter, RJ Nealon, is one other Particular Olympics athlete who transitioned from competing with Particular Olympics to now being a journalist and reporter for Particular Olympics and ESPN. RJ has labored on a number of top-tier sport occasions with Particular Olympics, and exterior companions, and even interviewed ESPN Sports activities Anchor, Kevin Negandhi, on the Particular Olympics USA Video games on how he started and grew his profession with ESPN.
Earlier this yr, RJ was a part of the group who lead classes with the newly appointed Particular Olympics World Athlete Congress (GAC) and Sargent Shriver World Messengers (SSGMs) whereas they have been in Washington D.C. for management coaching. He and Sydnye White, Vice President of Content material & Storytelling have been in a position to educate the group on media, communications, interviewing abilities, and lots of different subjects relevant to their new roles as SSGMs and GAC members.
“RJ reveals what nice work is finished when athletes are empowered to inform their very own, and different individuals’s, tales. RJ is just not a journalist with a incapacity, he’s merely a great journalist.”
Sydnye White, Vice President of Content material & Storytelling
RJ Nealon interviewing Kevin Neghandhi
RJ Nealon interviews ESPN Sports activities Anchor, Kevin Negandhi on the 2018 Particular Olympics USA Video games.
