The 33-year-old studied graphic design at Boise State University, and after deciding to focus on presentation design, filled her senior portfolio with them. By 2017, with her client list growing, she founded her own presentation design company, 16X9. When she and her fellow graphic design students would get assigned to do them, "people always were like, 'ugh, PowerPoint. In graphic design, "there's a lot of flashier things like advertising and branding," she says, but it was this day-to-day task that executives across the board were looking to outsource. Be 'a strong advocate' for yourselfWhether or not you go the freelance route, make sure you're getting paid what you deserve.

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Persons: Courtney Allen, Allen, Allen wasn't Organizations: Boise State University, Cisco Systems, Adobe, BBC, Census Locations: PowerPoints, U.S