Category: About Me
As someone with a very globally oriented outlook and perspective, I have always had a heart for the struggles and hardships of people around in our dysfunctional world, whether it be related to social justice or poverty or homelessness. This has motivated me to pursue a career in visual and mixed media arts, using my design voice as a vehicle to convey my commentary and to fight for change. At core I aspire to be a storyteller, and use art to tell the impact of the human experience. So for my webcase, I selected a topic that has far reaching impacts across the globe: food insecurity. As a member of the UMass Dartmouth chapter of MASSPIRG, I was an intern for the Hunger and Homelessness campaign. Getting more hands-on involved in campus activism, I became more informed about the acute food security crisis that is plaguing communities. Discovering that 1 in 3 college students in Massachusetts suffers from food insecurity astonished me, and prompted me to take action and organize. Hunger is a systemic failing, and is a byproduct of our culture’s individualism and lack of communal networking. Doing my research, I wanted to focus on a multiethnic city in the Global South.