5 Questions with Aisha France
Marketing Coordinator, Association Solutions
1. How has your career progressed at MCI?
After working in the banking industry in New York for a few years, I started in 2007 at Network Communications, which later became Network Media Partners, and then became a part of MCI. I started in Quality Assurance and was there until four years ago. Being a part of Quality Assurance gave me a good understanding of how all the departments work together to help our clients and customers achieve their goals. I’m now a part of the marketing team working out of the Baltimore office.
I enjoy working with my small but mighty team and working closely with the other departments. What we do ranges from managing marketing email campaigns to helping build and maintain media kit websites to supporting the sales department in getting ready for shows/conferences.
2. What do you like best about your job?
I love the management and the people. In all the years I’ve been here, I don’t think I’ve had a colleague I didn’t like. The management my entire time here has been really smart and conscious about making decisions that benefit both the company and the talents who work here. There has always been an open-door policy, and I feel comfortable going to anyone at any level and expressing my ideas or concerns.
After previously working in a very different, high-stress environment, I appreciated the genuine community feel that I found here.
3. You play a big role in the Baltimore office’s community engagement projects; what initiatives have you led?
We have been doing community outreach for the past five years. We’ve done book drives for the Patterson Park community in Baltimore city, food drives for the Ronald McDonald House, park clean up with Civic Works, food delivery to a homeless shelter that Empower4Life supports, feeding the firefighters at our local station, and more.
We’re currently making our biggest impact with an organization called the Baltimore Hunger Project (BHP). BHP helps fill the gap some food-insecure children experience between Friday afternoons and Monday mornings when they go home for the weekend. We do a food drive at the office, make a monetary donation, and then schedule a trip to their warehouse to pack the food the kids will take home that week. We love working with them; it’s a women-led organization, and it’s always a fun time for a great cause.
My former manager Bob Rupp, who passed away in 2022, encouraged me to start the Community Outreach Committee back in 2017. I’m grateful that he supported me in doing something I’m passionate about.
4. What organizations do you volunteer with in your personal life?
I like opportunities that my husband and two sons can also partake in. We love working with Empower4Life, an organization that supports children experiencing homelessness in Baltimore and Harford counties.
5. What else do you do for fun?
I love hiking and being outdoors. My family and I did a campervan trip out west in 2020. We started in California and visited Yosemite, Zion, and Grand Canyon National Parks. We visited Big Sur and San Francisco as well. It was amazing. We hope to do our next campervan trip to visit Yellowstone, Glacier, and Grand Teton National Parks. I also LOVE foods of all kinds, art, traveling, and going to music concerts.
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