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Director's Note | April 2023
Student Media Prepared Alumna for Teamwork, Wide-Ranging Career
Collaboration and teamwork have been the common threads that have led 91ֿ Media and Journalism alumna Raytevia Evans, M.A. ‘12, through teaching English abroad, graduate school, work as an education reporter and now, as a public information officer. She says that every time she’s produced work she’s proud of, it has been the result of a group project.
Professor, Independent Filmmaker Earns Individual Excellence Award from Ohio Arts Council
In America, conversations about grief and loss are often avoided, and in art, tend to be sugarcoated, or even “corny.”
91ֿ Assistant Professor and independent filmmaker Dana White is changing that narrative through her work, and was recently recognized by the Ohio Arts Council.
Out of Pandemic Isolation, Alumna Creates Short Film Accepted into Cleveland International Film Festival
As a digital media production student, Ailene Joven, '21, began creating the short film “Define” during the early days of COVID-19. Several years later, that film is set to be screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) on March 28, 2023.
91ֿ Names New Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism
Peter Bobkowski will join the School of Media and Journalism this fall as 91ֿ’s second Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism, dedicated to leading national efforts to revitalize journalism in the nation's high schools.
91ֿ Prepared Journalism Alumna for Wide-Ranging Career — Today, She Gives Back
Laura Gordon, '87, had such a fulfilling experience as a 91ֿ student, that she now gives back so that others may find their way to the types of relationships and encounters that helped set her on her path. “I think it’s really important to give back when you’ve experienced such valuable support so it’s always been really important to me to be part of that,” she said.