How can narrative power change the world?

I chose to enroll in Agnes Scott College’s Strategic Communications master’s program because of their margins-to-center approach and programmatic focus on social issues.

I was the recipient of the Linda Lentz Hubert Grant and graduated with both my master’s in Strategic Comms and a certificate in Public Advocacy. I was the recipient of the Sara Wilson Glendinning Journalism Award, awarded to students who show outstanding promise in journalistic endeavors. Read my reflection on my graduate school experience here.

Check out some highlighted courses and projects below.

In Content Strategy, I examined and produced audience analyses, website wireframes, accessible web design, and analytic reports. I learned basic HTML and SEO techniques.

Read the original content strategy I produced for this site.

Check out the updated content strategy produced for my final portfolio.

In Critical Communication, I studied fundamental theories of communication from Habermas to Gerbner and beyond. I examined their contemporary application to media and society.

For this course, I wrote a paper on the commodification of femininity in The Real Housewives franchise.

Additionally, I produced three poems and accompanying poetry broadsides examining the verbal signifiers of “wife” and “womanhood.”

In Communication of Data, I told stories through statistics. I studied how different styles of visualization serve data and craft narratives.

I learned the fundamentals of Tableau and applied them to a final data dashboard on LGBTQ community resource centers.

Watch my presentation of this dashboard.

Project Management gave me an in-depth look at successfully organizing, managing and leading a group project. I produced industry-standard PM documents and learned the basics of Microsoft Project while leading my team of six through a simulated community initiative.

Check out our final Project Document.

In Solutions Journalism, I profiled a local solution to a social issue. I studied the fundamentals of journalistic writing and applied them to this profile on Scraplanta, an environmental arts nonprofit in Atlanta.

For a Directed Research Project, I studied queer visual communication and its relationship to modern design software. I completed a 10-week Adobe Illustrator Masterclass and wrote a research paper on the political potential of queer gaze in hypercapitalist visual culture.

Additionally, I produced a series of posters exploring how mainstream visual culture can be repurposed to serve a queer gaze.

In Technologies of Social Change, I studied the history of social movements, analyzed change methodologies, and produced a social justice-oriented campaign.

Read my group’s final paper examining the issue of fair compensation for Black K-12 educators and devising a social campaign.