Byron Center, Michigan
Art with a two-dimensional concentration major
Hometown: Byron Center, Michigan
Major: Art with a two-dimensional concentration
Career goal: To
become an art therapist for a nonprofit organization that fights
against human trafficking or to start a nonprofit art camp for children
who have been exposed to traumatic situations
Senior Honors Project: “The Self and Photography: Using Writing and Photography to Reveal and Change Self-Ideation”
Service passions:
Fine arts advocacy for inclusion in schools, therapy and society,
mental health advocacy, de-stigmatization of mental illness and human
trafficking
Other CMU involvement: Chippewa Marching Band Color Guard, multiple mission trips and His House Christian Fellowship dance team
Value of CMU Honors Program:
“This program allowed me to personalize my undergraduate experience and
create an education that helped me reach my goal of becoming an art
therapist. It also introduced me to professors who genuinely care about
my future.”
How Honors will help you postgraduation: “Being a
part of the Honors Program helped secure my place in a very prestigious
and selective art therapy program at Mount Mary University in Wisconsin.
This program only allows 30 applicants every year, and I was chosen to
be one of those applicants due to my research experience and the
references of my Honors professors.”