Reflections on My Time at Northeastern University IT: A Journey of Growth and Impact Since joining the Northeastern University IT department in 2018, I’ve had the privilege of contributing to meaningful digital experiences and supporting our community through design, communication, and user-centered strategies. My journey began on the Communications team, where I took on a…
2020 has been… rough. I think it’s safe to say that it’s been a difficult year for everyone. Months of quarantining due to COVID-19 has left me with a lot of time I neither expected nor wanted. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss the simpler, carefree days of restaurant and concert-going of…
Hello there! Welcome to this “I’m so proud of myself” blog post. I have big news! Drum roll please. . . As of December 2019, I am officially done with my Digital Media Master’s program at Northeastern University! Over the course of 32 months, I completed 13 courses and one semester-long thesis project, all while…
Digital Accessibility: This site was included in a response to a civil rights lawsuit filed against Northeastern (as well as 49 other higher education institutions) on the grounds that many of the web properties for the university were not meeting digital accessibility standards. One of the main hopes in building this site was that it…
Last month, I attended a higher education multimedia workshop in Philadelphia that I gained a ton of amazing insight from. At the workshop, I learned from leaders in university engagement, video production, podcasting, social media, and photography. I’ve dabbled in all of these subject areas, but it was so fascinating to learn from people that…
This will be a quick post, but I wanted to pop in briefly to talk about one of my newest pastimes: pour painting! Pour painting is a technique in which acrylic paint is mixed with some type of pouring medium (such as paint additive and water) and then poured onto a canvas in a variety…
I want to tell you a story about how I learned that the biggest career failures can often lead (directly or indirectly) to some of the biggest career successes. In this case, I want to tell you the story about how I once created a drawing in 10 minutes that morphed into the mascot for…
I began coding in the spring of 2017; first, I became proficient with the language processing, and then I started learning html and css (which language should I learn next?). After learning some processing basics in my Programming Foundations Master’s course, I thought it would be neat to put my newfound coding skills to the…
