Account Director – ESPN, Special Olympics

>> My name is Mandy Murphy. I work for Special Olympics International, and I am the Global Account Director for our partnership with ESPN. With Special Olympics, we have thousands of events a year, all over the world. We serve 5 million athletes with intellectual disabilities and, pending what's happening with any sporting event in any corner of the world, we're working to connect our Special Olympics counterparts all over the world to get stories shared with ESPN. We have grants happening in all corners of the world to help grow our programming and it's just -- every day's a new adventure. For stories with us we have to do a lot of homework, because Special Olympics athletes, they are busy, they play a lot of sports. We have over 30 sports and they're local in their community. Most of what we do is grassroots-based, so getting in touch with their families, their coaches, their friends to really build a profile of who they are and seeing them at competition, and working with my colleagues at our local offices all over the world. We have a lot of volunteers and a lot of staff that all make up our system. So, we're doing a lot of phone calls, a lot of emails to make sure that we get the right people in touch with each other to be able to package the right information to then share back with all the folks at ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut.