“Instead of seeing life as a predetermined plan that must be followed, the liberal arts encouraged me to see my life as a painting that I get to create.”
Major/minor: English major, Reporting and Documentary Storytelling minor
Lives in: New York, NY
What work looks like: “Reading the news. Interviewing people. Covering an array of events. Pitching and writing stories. Finding new ways to reach an audience. Not getting discouraged when a story is shut down. Understanding views different from my own.”
What she loves about it: “Every day I learn something new. I speak to politicians, business leaders, academics, scientists, artists, and—most interesting to me—regular people who are impacted in the stories I cover.”
What she gained from a liberal arts education: “As AI threatens to make us all one, the liberal arts encourage us to be individuals. Looking back, my education gave me the courage to think for myself. Instead of seeing life as a predetermined plan that must be followed, the liberal arts encouraged me to see my life as a painting that I get to create. I am a unique person because of my education, just as every student was and is. We pursue our interests in subjects that make us human, enabling us to find ourselves along the way. And in an era in which thinking critically—looking up from one’s phone and walking into the woods, questioning the popular narrative, having an original idea, reading a book all the way through—has become undervalued, having a well-rounded education has taught me to think for myself and come to my own conclusions.”