It all started with dinner table jokes.

Since elementary school, I’ve recounted “what I did today” epics to my parents and four younger siblings. While my parents learned to cut me off before my siblings choked on their food from laughter, I learned how to externally process, adapt to my audience, and synthesize on the fly.

Traditional print reporting and design, a WordPress dive, and a quick pre-pandemic spot on the improv team in high school shaped my design and communication styles. At Biola, I explored all that the Adobe Suite has to offer, and began to pick favorites in the realm of storytelling—writing, graphic design, photojournalism, and podcasting are some of them.

Thanks to the Torrey Honors College, I can comfortably translate my everyday yap to academic bonum-verum-pulchrum-speak and then back to a colloquial vernacular, and have fun doing it! My academic papers have ranged from (the metaphor of) spiritual pregnancy in Augustine’s Confessions to mankind’s creation for uncreated ends from Scripture, Plato, Traherne, and Pseudo-Dionysius.