Outside of Lacrosse, what else are you involved in at Haverford?
I currently work as a Gallery Assistant for the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, located in Haverford's Campus Center. After four years on the board, I am the Editor-in-Chief of Body Text, Haverford's student written, student run academic journal. I co-head HaverMinds, a mental health discussion group that meets once a week on campus. This past fall, I co-curated an art exhibition with professor Kristin Lindgren in Magill Library. The exhibition featured artwork by Riva Lehrer, a Chicago-based multi-media artist, who uses unique collaborative approaches to portraiture in order to give her subjects, often stigmatized due to disability or gender identity, agency in the telling of their own stories. I also co-curated an art exhibition last spring in conjunction with the Haverford course "Critical Disability Studies," for which we partnered with Center for Creative Works, a local art and vocational training studio for artists with intellectual disability. My sophomore year at Haverford, I was involved in the first-year orientation program as a CP, and subsequently served on the CP Committee, which selects and trains CPs for the following year.
What are your plans after graduation?
I am currently in the job search process, looking primarily in the arts and publishing industries. To continue learning from and supporting artists and authors, through a job that combines art and English, would be ideal.
What is your favorite memory while playing lacrosse for Haverford?
My favorite memory is probably when our team beat Gettysburg my sophomore year. It felt like the entire team, on and off the field, came together for that incredible victory, and we won as a team. That said, every day in practice we have the potential to make small victories and connections within our team that are memorable in their own way.
What is your favorite class you've taken during your time here?
That's a difficult question. I have a few. My writing seminar "Inanimate Objects" with Lindsay Reckson set me on my path confidently toward the English major, with specific interest in photography, modernism, animacy, and agency. All of these topics I pursue in my senior thesis on photographic memory in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. John Muse's "Theory and Practice of Exhibition" introduced me to the theoretical, practical, and ethical concerns of curating. "18th Century Literature: New Media and Print Culture" with Laura McGrane sparked my curiosity in the materiality of book-making and the role of print in our contemporary digital age. Most recently, Kristin Lindgren's "Critical Disability Studies" has shown me productive interdisciplinary learning in practice; I combined my interests in English, Art, and Disability Theory, while learning from my diverse classmates and from artists in the local community at Center for Creative Works. By co-curating the class' semester-culminating exhibition, I was given the opportunity to put our theoretical discussions about accessibility, collaboration, and respectful curatorial intervention into practice.