Her Story
About Neila
Mila Trask is an emerging media professional and freshman at the University of North Texas, where she is studying in the arts while working on film festivals and taking classes to grow within her major. She began her media production journey in the 8th grade by joining her video announcements club and continued doing video announcements throughout high school. She joined the U of H Wonderworks film program, where she created short films, and completed a film internship with the Black Independent Filmmaker Association, where the team is preparing a short film for release at a film festival. Mila serves as a live shot reporter for North Texas Television and works on their noon news show. She is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, serving on their promotions team, and works with Mean Group Productions on sports broadcast as a timeout coordinator. Additionally, she contributes to a friend's short film project as a storyboard artist and camera operator, while editing scenes, creating graphics, and producing promotional content for her internship film.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Neila
01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Network vertically and horizontally. Some of the internships I land is through connections, whether it be someone at church, maybe my doctor knows someone. Also, just working with peers and being able to work on opportunities to help for me and places I want to be in the future has been very essential.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Do it all. There's so many new opportunities and career paths that you can go on, and hopefully do something that you love, and something that makes life worth living, and just get as much exposure to everything and you can. That would be the advice that I would give the high school graduates, because you never know how life may turn out, and it just There should be nothing stopping you from getting you what you want, and if you don't know, then that's okay, but Once he tried, that's all that matters.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The biggest challenge to college freshmen is not only just navigating a new space, but then also managing different extracurriculars while making sure I'm getting all my study in. Opportunity I think it's time management, and just making sure I can do all the things that I love to do, while also making sure that I am holding myself accountable, and making sure I can keep my grades and GPA up.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Family and community. Having a strong support system is essential. And it's just so nice knowing someone has your back. Also, advocacy. There are important issues going on in the world, and being able to create platforms to help spread awareness has been something important to me, which is why I had joined the City of Houston Youth Ambassadorship.
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