About
I am a recent graduate of Lebanon Valley College, a small, liberal arts college in central Pennsylvania, where I received a Bachelor’s Degree in English with a concentration in communications. When I entered college, I thought I would be a writer of some sort. Writing has always been a passion of mine, be it music reviews, sports stories, short stories, or poetry and I’ve even forayed into scripts for television shows and comics.
During my four years at LVC, I made my way from weekly music columnist to Sports Editor at our student newspaper, La Vie Collegienne. In addition to my work on the paper I also have been published in our literary magazine in 2006 and 2008 and, while working for the Sports Information Department, written many press releases, programs and web stories. As if that were not enough, in my senior year I joined Ryan Zvorsky and Steve Wisner on a weekly sports radio show on our campus radio station, WLVC: The Voice of the Valley.
Despite my English endeavors, I have always been visually stimulated and think with an artist's mind. In high school I took advanced art classes and still enjoy drawing in my spare time. I started to take designing seriously when I was appointed to Chair of Publicity in a couple of student groups on campus—The ValleyFest Committee, Greenblotter Literary Society and The F-Word, LVC’s women's interest group. (See Below for more information on these student groups.)
Each English communications major has to take at least three credits of an internship in order to graduate from LVC. I chose to do more graphic design work for my internship to see if I could stand a career in the field. Previously, I had worried that the work I would be doing would grow tedious. However, I found that not only was I incorrect, but I enjoyed the challenges and excitement of the graphic arts field.
My work on the internship consisted of creating many of the publicity materials for the Student Programming Board, the Office of Student Activities, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs as well as the organizations on which I was already a chairperson.
I have already won awards in my young graphic design career. My collection of posters for the ValleyFest events won first place in the Graphic Design Collection category of a national contest held by the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities (APCA). In addition, the poster I designed for the Vagina Monologues placed second in the Poster category. For my layout work on La Vie Collegiene I was named an honorable mention by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association in the Collegiate category.
With the experience that I was able to garner from this internship, and the direction and instruction that I obtained through the Digital Graphic Design course offered by LVC, I feel fully prepared to provide all sorts of graphic design solutions.
Be it t-shirts, flyers, posters, ads, collages or what have you, I am willing to work with customers to produce the graphics they need. I treat all tasks, from a single button to a comprehensive marketing plan, with the same level of respect, enthusiasm and energy.
ValleyFest is Lebanon Valley College’s annual festival to celebrate the arts. Activities include carnival games, craft vendors, inflatables, and two music stages during the day. Plus concerts on Friday and Saturday night! Past acts have included Less Than Jake, Allister, The Starting Line, Cartel, The Gin Blossoms, Everclear and Emerson Drive to name but a few.
The Greenblotter Literary Society is a group of passionate students and faculty who enjoy discussing and creating poetry, short stories and any other literary endeavors. Our main goal, as an organization is to produce a yearly collection of student and faculty works. In addition to our magazine, Greenblotter has started a (semi)annual poetry slam, held at the historic Allen Theatre in Annville, PA.
LVC's women's interest group, The F-Word, is a young organization but is very active and well known around campus. Known most for co-sponsoring the annual production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologes, The F-Word promotes gender awareness and equality throughout the campus.
