Skye Earls ’03 works at the National Geographic Channel as a digital media web production specialist. She produces websites that promote TV programs that the National Geographic Channel is known for: ones about the taboo customs from different cultures around the world, dinosaurs, the planet’s most dangerous creatures, multiple births, how the world would be different if the temperature were to rise six degrees, and the Galapagos Islands, to name a few. One of Earls’ websites promotes the popular TV show “Dog Whisperer.”

Earls also oversees the distribution of “Dog Whisperer” to iTunes and the distribution of videos for all of National Geographic Channel’s video partners, including YouTube, MSN, and Road Runner. She directs the design of the copy and images that come up when a program is selected for Video-on-Demand for all of the cable and satellite providers. She also writes content and shares creating promotions on National Geographic Channel’s home page.

Juggling many different tasks and interests isn’t new to Earls.  While at PC, she majored in English and minored in Spanish, political science, and media studies. She also found the time to DJ on WPCX radio, to serve on Student Publications Board, to participate in the Wilderness Activities Program, to volunteer with SVS, to play intramural sports, and to write on The Blue Stocking staff all four years. She served as editor-in-chief of the newspaper in her senior year.  

“It all comes together,” Earls said about a liberal arts education. She chose PC because she wanted a chance to get involved in as many activities as she could, and she wanted to become a well-rounded person too. She found and became just that. Not that she did it all on her own. How can you begin to narrow things down when you’re interested in everything?

“Professors help you find your path,” Earls said. “I had supportive professors who knew me and pushed me.”

Her English professors constantly talked to her about all of the different programs she could get into. Their motivation paid off long before National Geographic even. During her sophomore year she served as a communications intern for The Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington, DC, where she wrote stories for three publications and reworked pieces for the website. When she graduated, Earls worked as a reporter for the Odessa American, a daily newspaper with a circulation of 30,000 that’s based out of Odessa, TX. Then, she worked at South Carolina ETV, where she produced or associate produced TV shows such as “State House Today,” “ETV Forum,” and “Doug Nye’s Time Machine” and served as an on-site field producer at the GOP Headquarters during the 2004 election night.  

posted by Stacy Dyer '96

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