“It’s really just kind of been an opportunity for us to come in together, talk about the issues that we’re facing in the industry in our organization, as well as in the world,” Hogan says. Through her work with the Black Clippers Association, and programs like LACED UP, Hogan is continuing to find ways to bridge the gap and dismantle power structures that are gatekeeping the sports industry, especially for Black women. I’ve made some really strong friendships during my time with the Clippers,” she says. This job can be hard sometimes and so with that being said, having a good support system and people to lean on, that’s really one of the things that I enjoy. … I’ve developed friendships that I will have long after my time and tenure with the Clippers. “People always want to know, what makes you stay? It’s the people that I’ve had the opportunity to meet. But she’s grateful to be in the trenches of Clipper Nation with her sports family. I never thought of the business side of it,” Hogan says.Īs the organization gets ready for one of its biggest undertakings to date-the launch of its new arena, the Intuit Dome in Inglewood-Hogan is busy at best. I thought if you were in sports, you were playing. So much of it is lack of education-if I look back to when I was coming right out of college, I didn’t know about sales.
Especially leadership growth for women and for people of color. In my role, one of the things that I’m passionate about is leadership growth. “Jason has always been a mentor for me, and when I came over to the Clippers, he would always talk about how I could be a VP, like ‘this is something that you could do.’ I just never thought about it because I hadn’t seen it. But she admits that tangible examples of what she could do professionally when she was younger, especially as a Black woman in the white-male dominated executive industry, were few and far between. Again, it was a case of her work speaking for itself as she proved herself indispensable to the organization. Not even two years into her position, Hogan was promoted to her current role. Back in 2018, I took the job with the Clippers as director of service and retention.” It was really a hard offer to refuse-so I didn’t. Then, when he got an opportunity with L.A., he gave me a call. He was someone that recruited me to the Padres and was a leader for me over there. One major person being my current boss, Jason Green. “I got to meet some great people, and work under some really great leadership over my time with the Padres. He saw something in Hogan he couldn’t do without. Hogan spent her time gradually working up through sales, accounts and membership services, under the leadership of industry veteran Jason Green, who spent six seasons with the Padres before becoming the Clippers’ chief ticketing officer. That was the start of my career in sports-I worked for the Padres for about seven years.” My interview was the last day, and the next day I’m flying home, and they call and offer me a job. “I was going to the zoo and all of these things. I don’t even remember applying, but I got a call from the San Diego Padres, and I was like, ‘O.K., this is interesting, but I’ve never moved across the country.’ And to go to San Diego? So, I went out there like I went on vacation,” she remembers. After a few years, Hogan was uprooting and transporting her entire life across the entire country to California to finally begin her career in the sports industry. Her time back home proved to be a necessary moment of stability and regrounding, preparing for what was to come, though she didn’t know it yet. I didn’t feel like I was fulfilled, not like working in sports.” “I really didn’t like the market that I was in.
“I think I was really kind of passionate about ADHD and children, and so it was a good opportunity for me to do something I was passionate about,” she recalls. Though the sports industry was on her mind pretty much constantly, she found herself working in sales for companies like Marlboro, which took her to Nashville to fine-tune her sales prowess, before she ended up back in Georgia working for the makers of Adderall and Vyvanse.
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