In my program proposal, I established four goals. 

1. To learn advanced techniques for reporting and how to approach different types of reporting. 

2.  Push me out of my comfort zone by finding unique stories to report on, interviewing people outside my social network and extending my skills outside of the classroom to a community application. 

3. Intersect these skills with my previous interests in design work, videography, and visualization. 

4. Use all of these skills and apply them to help my local community by reporting important issues or helping a nonprofit organization help my community make informed decisions. These communicated issues would hopefully help uplift underrepresented and minority voices in my community. 

I am pleased to see in my portfolio how I have made strides and met all my goals. I demonstrate this in pieces like a broadcast video on local Madison artists trying to grow the impact of the midwestern rap music scene or designing digital graphics for a nonprofit on the effect of internet voting would have on election security. Through writing, design and video work, I have reported on issues new and essential to me while supporting the communications efforts of important organizations within my community. 

Thanks for exploring my work.