Here’s mine:

From a young age, I fell in love with cameras. I always wanted to take photos of everyone around me and tell their stories through videos. At-home videos were my thing. This love was the uprooting of my passion for media production. In high school, I auditioned for our TV program. This was a 2-year program that took up 2 blocks of your school day and crossed over into credits for other classes and college credits. It was a very serious program at the high school level and I knew that if I made it into the program I could find my footing in deciding if this passion was something I wanted to pursue as a career. Thankfully, I made it in and had the best 2 years of my life in this program. We ran the program’s Twitter, Youtube, and Instagram accounts delivering news to the school district and community. On top of this, we produced and executed live newscasts every day. We each produced and reported our own news packages and learned all the control room positions of a newsroom. It was great!

I knew that after high school I wanted to pursue this in higher education, and I thought I had it all planned out, until covid hit… I ended up having what feels like to me an atypical college journey. But when I really look and examine my journey it isn’t so unorthodox. I was admitted to a school in Pennsylvania but when the pandemic hit, I decided to resign my admissions and attend community college. I only had 1 in-person class at community college which was black and white film photography and to be that was what was keeping my creativity going throughout the darkest days of the pandemic. Also during this community college year since my classes were mostly online, I had a lot of flexibility to work at a local coffee shop and save up money before I transferred to BG my 2nd year. I have been blessed with many opportunities in my time in college but here are just 3. I opened my own media production LLC, https://www.kingstoncameras.com/ , I had the experience of filming for a CBS national news package, and I currently work at a telecommunications center where the sporting games are broadcasted to ESPN. OK OK, not to hype myself up anymore but I am graduating a year early, so I completed college in 3 years and was at BG for 2. To me, this all seems it went by so quickly and I cannot even believe this is it and i’m graduating in April. I hope my story inspires yours. Onto the next chapter in April 2023…