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    Academics Student Spotlight

    Alumni Spotlight: Ariel Felton

    February 21, 2019

     

    Meet Ariel Felton 👋

    Graduation Year: 2012

    Major: English with a focus in journalism (went on to get her M.F.A. in Writing from SCAD in 2015)

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    Q: How did your time spent at #VState shape your professional career?

    A: While enrolled at VSU, I was the features editor of The Spectator and also interned for The Voice, the VSU alumni magazine. After graduating in 2012, I was accepted into the M.F.A. writing program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Before I moved to Savannah, my VSU advisor, Dr. Pat Miller, connected me with the news editor of Savannah Morning News. Thanks to her, I had an assignment before even unpacking my bags in Savannah! The journalism skills and experience I gained at VSU helped sustain my freelance career while getting my master’s degree and beyond. I graduated from SCAD in 2015, and I’m now an executive writer for the university’s executive office. I continue to freelance on the side, and my work has been published in The Progressive, The Bitter Southerner, Under the Gum Tree, Savannah Magazine, Atlas Obscura, Scalawag magazine, and Reductress.

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    Curious to read some of her work? Read a recent essay she wrote titled, “A Letter to My Neice.”

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