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The Faculty Commons Monthly – April 2020
Colin Alli
As the Professional and Technical writing intern attached to Faculty Commons, I develop profiles, generate reports, and conduct usability testing for student ready departments pilots. In the future, I plan to use graduate pursuits to work with those suffering from mental health issues. One peculiar facet of my personality is my propensity for visiting cemeteries…
Lu Xue
Some of the tasks I perform working with Faculty Commons include communicating with clients, making concepts for their ideas, and designing and bringing their ideas to life. This internship is helping me learn the Adobe Suite and necessary skills for the workplace. These experiences have helped me develop my interpersonal skills and has improved my…
Ashley Valera
I provide my clients with different design formats such as posters, postcards, branding, to help promote events and activities to students and faculty at City Tech. Faculty Commons has allowed me to experience working one on one with clients, in project management, and explore my work in illustration and graphic design. Working here has allowed…
Marlon Palmer
I was the lead designer for the Scholars Exchange series and Nucleus, the Faculty Commons quarterly academic magazine. Interning at Faculty Commons was a tremendous help to my professional development. It taught me a lot about how to carry myself in a professional work environment, while simultaneously helping me to become a better designer. My…
Alexander Thompson-Burton
Currently, I am a student ambassador and representative for Project Wayfinding. Project Wayfinding provides students with personnel roadmaps to graduation by creating accessible web-based tools and resources for all. Tasks that I performed while working with the design team included content writing, usability testing, and website analysis. Faculty Commons has allowed me to learn the…
Arianna Bollers
Working with Faculty Commons has allowed me to develop my communication and interpersonal skills while working with others such as designers, creative students, and faculty. I aspire to use my creative thinking and design skills to help others through volunteer work in my community. This will allow me to achieve and become the designer I…
Hoa Vu
As a Graphic Designer and Illustrator interning at Faculty Commons, I communicate to audiences with interpretative media. Through my storytelling expertise, I aspire to develop my skills in video production and illustration as a storyteller through proficiency with video and illustration media platforms. Once I have mastered these skills, I can effectively convey stories and…
Jeremy Renner
Interning at Faculty Commons is my first step towards working in a creative and professional environment. I use my creative lens to capture school events, coordinate the design needs of multiple clients, create web banners, posters and promotional materials, and conceptualize creative solutions for events. Faculty Commons has allowed me to use and develop my…
Cerena Reid
As a Graphic Designer in the Communication Design major, I have learned that to be successful in my field, I must not only just rely upon hard work but I must finesse my skills with tools in visual communication. Empowered with these tools, I have maintained, created, and redesigned various community-based projects in the form…