starAbout Me

I am a student in my junior year at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. I am an English/journalism major with minors in Spanish and International Studies.

the mirror
On campus, I am the Online Managing Editor of the Fairfield Mirror, the university's independent student newspaper. For a list of articles I have written throughout my three years as a staff reporter, click here.

I am also a tutor in the Fairfield University Writing Center. I have worked there for three years. For my senior research project, I plan to investigate trends in they way English as a Second Language students learn to write with the assistance of peer tutors.

Web Design

During the spring 2009 semester, I took a course entitled TL 110: Web Design. This was a project-based course designed to teach the fundamental concepts and skills essential to designing professional websites. Students explored how information architecture and graphic design theories apply to the web medium, learned how to best utilize the tools of the trade (Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash) to create production-ready website designs and received an overview of how to plan and execute successful web design projects as an independent producer or member of a team. The integration of audio, video and animation into the web medium was also be explored.

To view some of the projects I completed as part of this course, refer to the links below.