The title of Miss Mass Communications is a title that has been coveted by many but only attained by a few. The title itself resembles intelligence, class, beauty, persistence and perseverance. Fortunately, these are all of the qualities that the newly-elected Miss Mass Communications 2024-2025 Larissa Chillous possesses.
Chillous, 21, a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama officially won the title on Monday, September 9th. Her platform for her campaign was exposing all of the unique things that the Mass Communications Department here at Alcorn State University (ASU) has to offer and bringing more students, with their talents, to the Department. “I engaged a lot of students all over campus and they were very interested in the Communications major. I educated them on what the field has to offer and what it could eventually do for them. I was a recruiting machine,” says Chillous.
During her tenure at Alcorn, Chillous has been a renaissance woman. She is a percussionist for the ASU Sounds of Dyn-O-Mite Marching Band, a member of Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Sorority Band, Inc. and a Resident Assistant. Within the Communications Department she is a member and treasurer (Alcorn chapter) of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), American Advertising Federation (AAF), a staff writer for The Campus Chronicle who has contributed more than 40 stories, she won Radio Show of the Year at WPRL 91.7 FM (Alcorn’s radio station) in the Spring of 2024, a news producer for ASU TV-13 (Alcorn’s TV station) and she did an internship at WLBT in Jackson, Mississippi.
“My goal once I entered into the Department was to stand out and be unique. I wanted to gain as much knowledge about my field as possible and what better way to do this than to engulf myself in everything there was that it offered. I’ve tried to stay as busy as possible to perfect my skills so that when I graduate in the Spring of 2025, I’ll be extremely marketable to a future employer,” says Chillous.
Chillous plans on going into the news profession by first attaining whatever position that will get her foot in the door. Her ultimate goal is to be a news anchor and one day have her own talk show.