As the chief architect for the Arts & Science Council of Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s capacity building, professional and leadership development offerings, I spend a lot of time thinking about the skills and expertise our next generation of creative leaders will need to be successful, particularly in an environment where change and complexity are the rule, not the [...]

It has been nearly a year since I wrote my last editorial on my experience after graduation and I am pleased to say that things have improved and are continuing to improve daily. Currently, I am still employed at HauteLook as a fashion copywriter, but now I am getting to work more specifically on beauty [...]

When one pictures the average W&L alum, an image of a heavily made-up, grungy and scowling metal musician is not usually the first, second  – or even fourteenth or eighteenth – image that comes to mind. Yet, after a long, convoluted and arduous journey, here I am with a newly signed label contract, a CD [...]

I had no idea that five years ago I'd be sitting where I am today. Sometimes I feel as though I was just dropped on the opposite side of the country, placed in front of a computer with a keyboard and was told to “create.” When I started at Washington and Lee I had hopes [...]