I am a 2024 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, with a major in Digital media and a minor in Anthropology.  Over the last four years, I have combined my longstanding interest in culture and communications with my passion for music. I spent my time during university erecting a sex magazine, organizing concerts/ festivals, and oh yeah, schoolwork, but most importantly learning how to learn. I loved most of the classes I took and learned tons of marketable skills, I mean graphic design, video editing, web design, social media optimization, ethnography, AP style writing, with some of the most talented and creative professors in their field but nothing will replace the knowledge gained through getting your hands dirty and doing the thing. 

 

Moody Magazine taught me what it means to be ground zero on a creative journey and grow with a project. I went from figuring out my voice as a writer in a print magazine to creating a digital platform and organizational structure that allowed people from all over the world to find their own. Managing a team of creatives sparked a love for that liminal space between artists and their community. FourFour, an Irish Techno magazine and artist platform, showed me how to shift my creative processes towards different audiences and how to adapt to my professional surroundings. Living alone in London, working remotely, I struggled finding my place in a new scene, but through that isolation and awkwardness I learned how to get over myself to get the job done, acknowledging that I am not clueless while recognizing how much I have yet to learn. My latter years were spent organizing basement concerts, helping with promotion, scheduling, and actually putting on the show itself. My big break within the basement scene was when I connected another organization I was in to produce a charity music festival. With a limited budget I curated a professionally produced, ten band music festival with a bazaar of vendors, food trucks, brand partnerships, and a Wasserman contracted headliner- oh and did I mention that it was all for kids with cancer. It was the most hectic couple of months of my entire life juggling school, Moody magazine, and this festival. I had never been as stressed and exhausted in my life but this was also the most invigorated I had ever felt. The countless hours of planning, millions of emails, sleepless nights, and anxiety attacks all came to fruition on the day of the festival. And while I had been up for 36 hours straight running around so much that my feet were bleeding, the ten minutes at the end of the show where I could exhale and observe made it all worth it. Among so many other things, I learned that I wouldn’t want to work in any other type of space. 

 

I sit on the edge of this chapter in my life excited to learn and enter this space, excited, excited to learn. I would be thrilled to start my career in the music industry in PR, artist representation, management, or event production and am excited for an entrée into the industry that will help my develop in this space.