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I have loved reading since my dad read my siblings and I “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” for story time and read ahead and finished it when I was supposed to be sleeping. I found a passion for writing in my eighth grade english class, the only english class I’ve ever enjoyed. Mr. Moseley made us write a page using all the vocabulary words for the week, so I wrote him a year long story. It challenged my creativity and it probably wasn’t the best thing he’s ever read, but I had fun.

When I was picking a major, I told my advisor I wanted to be an author. She told me I would be poor… or something like that. So I told her I wanted to be on the other side of it, deciding what books would be published and editing them. She told me to be an English major, but I had hated almost every English class I’d ever been in. So I decided on journalism.

As I took more and more journalism classes at Sacramento State I could tell I chose correctly. I enjoyed every single one, especially The State Hornet, Sac State’s student news publication. I started as a sports staffer on the women’s soccer beat and also took pictures for men’s soccer and volleyball that semester. My second semester on The State Hornet I covered softball and took pictures for women’s basketball.

By my third semester on The State Hornet, now a third year, I had earned the position of copy editor. I, along with the second copy editor, was in charge of reading every piece of content that would go up on the site and edit it for AP style and content. It was challenging, but rewarding and I was crazy enough to want to do it another semester.

Now, in my final semester I am The State Hornet copy editor, freelancer and am looking for jobs in journalism and

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