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Hialeah Campus
How Improvisation Improves Mental Health |
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| Breanna Escobar Faculty Mentor: Maria Garcia |
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| Breanna Escobar is a student at Miami Dade College. She is achieving her Associates Degree in Drama/Drama Education. She fell in love with drama when she was 15 years old. Breanna enjoyed how it pushed her to her limits and allowed her to take creative risks. The theatre has taught her to jump out of her shell and acting has helped her to not be afraid of being herself. She dreams of being on the big screen, however education has always been a big thing for her. She wholeheartedly believes that education provides a plethora of opportunities. She hopes to achieve her Bachelors of Fine Arts in the future and leap into the entertainment industry. As of right now, she supports herself with the help of her amazing family. She is also a teacher assistant at a nearby learning center. She loves her job and adores all of her little learners. She hopes to teach them about all the wonderful things that drama can do. | |
Homestead Campus
Cultural Appropriation of the American Cowboy |
Apocalypse Zero |
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| Gabriella Bonilla Faculty Mentor: Terri Mitchell |
Joshua Martinez Faculty Mentor: JJ Colagrande |
| Gabriella, a South Florida native, is a Miami Dade Honors College scholar working towards her Associates in Arts degree in English Literature and Education. Age 18, she represents a Dominican household and is extremely proud of her Afro-Latin roots. Involved with organizations such as Phi Theta Kappa and Sigma Kappa Delta, Gabriella holds both the humanities and community service very close to her heart. With aspirations to earn her Doctorate, the sharing of knowledge and ideas is her true passion and goal in life. | Joshua Martinez is an English major at Miami Dade College. He is an aspiring creative writer that is good with world building and likes to play video games with massive worlds. He plans to transfer to Florida International University for a bachelor’s in English with a concentration in creative writing. He also enjoys photography as a hobby and likes to take pictures of cityscapes. His main goal in life is to change anyone’s perspective by experimenting with different ideas he has in his mind. He came from a mostly Hispanic family and is one of the triplets born out of the odds from prematurity on April 1st. He is always supportive of his siblings and remains the calmest out of his out there and unusual family. |
Kendall Campus
| Mychelle Bell is currently a theater student at Miami Dade College with aspirations of transferring to Florida International University and pursuing her Bachelor of Arts in English. Bell is a full-time student and performer. Bell is a leadership mindset consultant, team builder, and coach with over 10 years in experience in the law enforcement industry where she specialized and served in mindset transformation, leadership training, and team building roles. Bell was born and raised in Miami, Fl. She was a state correctional officer for 4 years, a federal correctional officer for 4 years, and now currently serves as in the United States Air Force as a Sargent Military police officer at Homestead ARB, FL. She has her Certification as a Business Specialist from Miami Dade College, her leadership training certification from Airmen Leadership School of the Air Force and is an Assistant Field Training Officer. Bell is a single mother of one son, and she currently lives in Homestead, Fl. |
My name is Jennifer Cruz Ciprian and I am an Art student at Miami Dade College. I am Peruvian and I love my culture. I started studying Industrial Design in my country but in the process I fell in love with Sculpture and Art in general. Experimenting with materials is fascinating for me. Also I like to try other platforms like digital media. I came to the United States to finish my studies and develop my professional skills. In the future, I would like to work at museums creating projects to support emerging artists. |
Why not stand out rather than fit in for the rest of your life? |
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| Christopher Sanchez Faculty Mentor: Michael Lenaghan |
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| Christopher Sanchez is a second year student currently studying English Communication at Miami Dade College, Kendall campus. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Sanchez took a particular interest in writing at the early age of thirteen. Since then he’s won many awards such as the silver key award for his journalism article titled “Excessive Sitting” and has made it his mission to hone in on his writing craft, and to better develop his skills as a researcher. Christopher plans on graduating Miami Dade College with an associate’s degree, to then transfer over to the University of Miami to pursue his bachelor’s degree. His goal is to continue to leave a positive impact on the world and to really say something that needs to be said with his writing whether that is through poetry, research papers, or story telling. Christopher has recently undertaken his first research project with Humanities Edge focusing on the psychological barriers that stop people from living up to their full potential as a human being. | |
North Campus
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Temiloluwa Alagbe is a first-year Miami Dade College Honors College student pursuing an Associate of Arts degree in English literature. Originally from New York, she moved to Miami in high school and graduated from Barbara Goleman Senior High School. Temiloluwa discovered her love for reading and writing as a child and hopes to work as a journalist or a writer in the film industry. She enjoys reading, dancing, and drawing.
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Amanda Anderson is a second-year Art Education major. She has been entranced by the arts since she was a child and has always expressed herself artistically. For years, Amanda has used creativity as a way to express herself and show others how she views the world around her. When it comes to art, she leans toward painting what society would depict as monsters and giving her own spin on it. She believes in the quote: “The Devil is real. And he's not a little red man with horns and a tail. He can be beautiful. Because he's a fallen angel, and he used to be God's favorite” from the series American Horror Story. You can find the worst actions in the most beautiful creatures. In Amanda’s works, her use of blotchy colors and rough line art helps show the life, experience, and trauma that people carry through their everyday lives. After graduating, Amanda plans to teach high schoolers and guide them to finding their voice in the arts. Through art, she wants to inspire teens not to be afraid to instill change in the world with their works. |
Padrón Campus
Mouses, Frames, and Ads: How Disney, Animation, and Advertisement have Redefined American Culture |
Queer Gaslit Poetry Inspired by Gaslighting in Contemporary Media |
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| Osmany Morales, a sophomore student currently enrolled in The Honors College at MDC, is striving to get an Associate's Degree in Computer Art Animation to then pursue higher level education in writing and art, specifically in the University of Miami for their Master's Degree in Creative Writing. Aside from this, he has developed an intrigue for creative storytelling and research-based writing. Osmany has already made several research papers before and these helped him realize that there are many topics and current issues he'd like to talk about and present to others, such as the state of education, the healthcare industry, and other cultural and economic aspects in the United States. Osmany hopes to become a recognized writer in the future and bring up proper discussion of topics that need to be heard and talked about around the world, through both art and words. | Nicole Viloria is a Venezuelan and queer English literature student at Miami Dade College's The Honors College, aiming to transfer to a comparative literature program. As a lover of languages, writing, and reading since she was little, she wishes to translate and write novels of her own. She has been published at Padrón Campus’ Digital Commons, Urbana Literary & Arts Magazine, inclusiveWe, and O,Miami. She weekly tutors English to a Ukrainian student through ENGin Program and trains new volunteers to do the same. She is also the current president of Gamma Eta, the chapter of Sigma Kappa Delta English Honor Society and co-editor-in-chief of Urbana Literary & Arts Magazine. She is also a Newman Fellow for Campus Compact and a Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship semi-finalist. |
Wolfson Campus
You Are Not Alone: What is Child Abuse? |
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Jamie Navarro is a graphic design student at MDC, Wolfson Campus with plans to transfer to FIU to attain a Bachelor of Arts in graphic design. They were born and raised in Miami, FL and their family comes from Nicaragua and Honduras. Their parents separated when they were four years old and because of this separation, Jamie had trouble communicating their needs as they were only able to connect with others non-verbally. Jamie was a mute for six years and instead communicated through the arts and expressed themselves through illustration. They began using verbal communication when they were ten years old. However, their love for communicating via the arts was never entirely replaced. Always relying on their own experiences, Jamie uses art as a vehicle for connection and healing themselves and others. |
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