<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of today's (October 27, 2012) Spokesman-Review.</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WSU grad’s song, video score job on ‘Ellen’ show</span></font></h1></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span>Thanks to an eccentric approach to job-hunting and a viral video, a young Spokane woman has landed a job on the “Ellen” show.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Thanks to an eccentric approach to job-hunting and a viral video, a young Spokane woman has landed a job on the “Ellen” show.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Ellen needs the best people on your team and that’s why you should know I’m more than I seem,” Norris rapped in the video, released in late September.</span></p><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The video, taped at familiar Spokane sites, featured a fearless Norris, and her visual résumé made her a local sensation.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Don’t be afraid to be crazy and out of the box,” Norris recommends to fellow job-seekers.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She hit the streets sporting a full-body green suit to market her video, for example. She also sent a box covered in QR codes that eventually made it to the “Ellen” mailroom. That box was displayed on last week’s episode with comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres announcing the new hire.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Norris said she’s excited to start her post-college career in California.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I really like Spokane, but I’m excited for something new and to challenge myself,” Norris said. “Being down there for the show – realizing you’re going to live there – is intimidating.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Norris, who is gay, actually made two videos: In the first she was vocal about her sexual orientation, while the second kept it tongue-in-cheek. She said she made the new video because she wanted it to be family friendly and marketable.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The first video was taped and uploaded in less than a day. The second video took a month of production.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It’s a miracle and it worked, but now I’m ready for a new goal,” Norris said. “I want to inspire people like (DeGeneres) inspired me. What better way to start that dream than to work for somebody like that?”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Norris starts her new job on Nov. 15, with moving expenses and one year of rent paid for by the show.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">---------------</p><p style="overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Washington State University student Erica Norris’ self-made video helped her get a production assistant job on the “Ellen” show.</span></p><p style="overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><img src="cid:628AA88F-7038-44A2-92BA-1F49D45F571B" alt="cit27_SRX_ERICA_NORRIS_t620.jpg" id="628AA88F-7038-44A2-92BA-1F49D45F571B" width="620" height="403"></p><p style="overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">---------------</p><p style="overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Videos by and about Erica Norris.</p><p style="overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">http://<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SrZdYVbgiM">www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SrZdYVbgiM</a></span></p><p style="overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">http://</span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgeulviAsSk">www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgeulviAsSk</a></span></p><p style="overflow: visible !important; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span>-------------------------------------</p></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Moscow Cares"</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Tom Hansen</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Moscow, Idaho</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>