Sculptor, Water Enthusiast, Boston University Student, Dreamer, and Aspiring Assistant are all titles that I hold dear and has worked for over my academic and professional career. In my undergraduate years, I have been studying a multitude of creative and human-oriented disciplines, all while working toward her goal of producing accessible media. Maybe a tad ambitiously, she is pursuing a double major in the History of Art and Architecture and in Cinema and Media Studies departments, while double minoring in Italian and Urban Studies. With a concentration on Sculpture, North African and Mediterranean Art, Italian Culture, Media, Art and Sociology, Queer History, I am hoping to pursue an honors project focusing on Water in Mediterranean Cinema. I have participated in summer study abroad at the American University of Paris, University College Dublin, and BU Sydney. I am additionally preparing to embark on Voyage 137 with Semester at Sea and the Institute of Shipboard Education in the spring of 2026. On campus, I work as a FYSOP Leader, the Senior Editor for Squinch Magazine, the Digital Video Director on the BU Buzz, a writer for WTBU's The Beat, and a member of the Pinky Toe, The Bunion, and Off The Cuff. She is also an Inaugural Member of the BU LGBTQ+ Center's Lavender House and has worked to start a Community Bookshelf.

My choice to study the humanities was a given. Having been drawn to dance, theater, arts, photography, and music as a child, I knew I wanted to end up in a position of storytelling. In my youth, learning new stories was the main thing that would get me excited, like going to a movie or listening to an audiobook with my mum. In high school, I was semi-lost. I was looking to escape the performance element of the arts I had grown up with and grow more knowledgeable on the thing I cared about the most, HOW people tell stories. That is how I fell into an Art History class my sophomore year of high school, and my love for visual analysis and cultural connections was born. 

Being able to see many types of media, art, and music has become a core part of my life and personality. This has manifested into a passion for the visual arts, and my double majors in Art History, Cinema, and Media Studies, with my double minor in Urban Studies and Italian. By focusing on urban centers, the hotspots of new human creation, I am studying storytelling through visual media. With Italian, I can learn about the core Western developments of media and focus on cultural growth over an expansive period of time while fostering my language skills. Overall, with my majors, I get to focus on the modern functions of storytelling, how popular culture is formed through visual art and media, and how to critically interpret what is being made and how they are spread.

Each film I see is a chance to engage my brain and overwhelm my senses with color and sound, an experience I so deeply value. When I feel lost or in need of alone time, I find solace in stories, just like many others do. My future, I hope, will be a blend of my skills and interests, including art, color, organization, and community engagement. I want to work for the communities I live in and help produce art that can be accessed by all. Whether that be visual media, sculptures, or experiences, I hope to work with new and upcoming artists who have a story to tell, where I can be of support. Titles like producer, creative director, editor, and production manager all intrigue me, and my dreams lie with any projects, any stories that draw me in.

If you could design a course at BU that doesn't already exist, what would it be?

While I have many passions and academic interests, I would work to synthesize my love for media production and popular culture through the lens of cultural representation. The class would be called, Don’t Call Me By Your Name; The Sociological Effects of Popular Media on Minority Groups. It would examine the forms of positive, negative, and/or inaccurate representation of cultures in American popular media and their present impact on popular mindset or biases. I would feature movies, television shows, music, and events, beginning with films like Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) and Hairspray (2002) that both encounter 1950’s American race relations but contrast in representation due to creation at different stages of time. Then the class would lead into the cultural impact that 911 propaganda made on modern anti-Muslim rhetoric. Additionally, we would discuss and debate TV shows like Kim’s Convenience (2016) and Fresh off the Boat (2015) which both had aspects of East-Asian stereotypes in progressive American Sitcoms. The final assignment be a case study into a media of their choice with an in-depth analysis of the explicit and internal cultural impacts. Now, I could never represent or accurately speak on all minorities, I would bring in expert lecturers and co-instructors to lead discussions and plan the syllabus. I would be able to lead female and lgbtq+ discussions, but all of our topics would cover intersectional issues and effects, making it crucial for diversity of instructional voices.