
Connor Mallon
Washington D.C. City Impact Manager / Photographer
The Mission Continues/Smithsonian Institution
The Mission Continues/Smithsonian Institution
Washington D.C. City Impact Manager / Photographer
I help empower, inspire, and mentor veterans to help them get involved in their communities.
At The Mission Continues, a great workday consists of us putting on an event, knocking it out of the park, and getting really good feedback from the community. Whenever I hear that one of our members has taken the resources we offered to them and done something awesome with them—whether they find a new opportunity or job, or they enroll in or graduate from school—it just fills me with joy. As a contract photographer, a great day means capturing a powerful image and putting it out into the world.
Here's the first step for college students
In college, it's not so much about what degree you get; it's more about learning certain things that you don't learn in the military, like knowing how to network, being able to form an argument, practicing critical thinking. All of those skills were incredibly important for me to learn. In addition, in college you get to be around people who are ambitious and proactive, and making things happen. Choose the right circle of friends and their drive and energy will transfer over to you.
"You have to take this job because it's respectable; it's what you *should* do."