Corey Hammonds

By: Katie Irwin

kdi7@txstate.edu

Corey Hammonds, Photo by: Katie Irwin

 

Corey Hammonds is a 22 year-old Junior at Texas State University with a major in advertising and a minor in psychology. She is from a small town north of Dallas, Texas called Sanger. After high school, she attended community college at North Central Texas College with intentions of majoring in Psychology, but eventually changed majors. 

For work, Corey is a full time server/waitress at Gruene River Grill in New Braunfels, Texas. Her dream job is to design movie ad trailers for a living, but if that doesn’t work out she would also love to work in an advertising agency. In her free time she likes to keep up with her health by attending a local gym and cooking healthy meals.

All About Ben Blanton

By: Prince Imo
p_i7@txstate.edu

Who is Ben Blanton? Ben Blanton was born in Austin, TX. He attended Round Rock High School, and joined his school's basketball team. Along the way in his high school career, he wanted to try new things by joining the swim team. He quickly picked it up and immediately fell in love with it. Not only does Ben love being athletic, he enjoys watching T.V and hanging out with his friends.

Picture by Prince Imo

Ben currently attends Texas State University and majors in Public Relations while minoring in English. Giving back to the community, Ben became a peer mentor his sophomore year. In one year, he was able to advise and help incoming freshman. Ben hopes to and an internship this summer and graduate next year from Texas State.

O’bryant Muralles

By: Sarah Atterbury

S_a334@txstate.edu

O’bryant Muralles (Photo credit: Sarah Atterbury)

Twenty-six year old O’bryant Muralles, who goes by OB, is currently a Texas State student majoring in Electronic Media, hoping to one day start a skateboarding business. His passion for skateboarding began when OB was six, and then, soon after, he started documenting his skateboarding when he was nine using a hand held camcorder.

OB moved from California to Texas in 2012 to begin his academic career at Texas State. After two years he decided to take a break from school, and during that time, he made a documentary about Seguin Skate Park for fun. Now, as of spring 2017, OB is back at school building his education to get a degree to better his future!

Camelia Juarez

Melissa Monrroy
mam700@txstate.edu

Camelia Juarez photo by: Melissa Monrroy

Camelia Juarez, a San Antonio native who is a sophomore at Texas State University studying journalism, aspires to work at BuzzFeed as a journalist.


Camelia currently holds a leadership position as an Assistant Director for the Blog Content department at Texas State’s radio station, KTSW. She is also out and about in San Marcos interviewing citizens and writing article’s as a News Reporter for the radio station as well. She loves writing national news and putting it in a youth perspective. What inspires her to become a journalist is being able to write and share about people’s stories and background because they are so different. One article that she is proud of writing was about a Doll-maker who made dolls with prosthetic limbs for children that have a prosthetic. Once Camelia’s article got published, the Doll-maker emailed her saying that an organization wanted to fund the Doll-maker.


From interviewing people all over San Marcos to editing soundbites on Adobe Audition, Camelia has grown as a writer and hopes that more opportunities come her way as she conquers the field.

Madison Diaz's Bio

By: Raul Biscaino Jr
r_b99@txstate.edu

Madison Diaz is currently a senior at Texas State University majoring in Mass Communication. Although originally from the San Marcos area, she has had the pleasure of living in the Miami Beach area where her immediate family currently resides. After graduation at the end of the current semester, Madison would be open to perhaps a social media or copywriting position but aspires to devote majority of her time as an author.


During the majority of her schooling years, Madison has worked in the food service industry however now works at a parking garage and was recently promoted to Student Manager. Becoming a self-published author is one of her amazing accomplishments as of late and is currently working on her second romance book. Her hobbies include reading, writing, enjoying time together with her boyfriend and travel.

Raul Biscaino Bio

By: Madison Diaz

madisondiaz12@gmail.com

Raul Biscaino is a born and raised Texas boy, growing up in Del Rio just west of San Antonio. He moved to San Marcos about a year and a half ago to attend Texas State University.

His major is in Public Relations, and he's currently classified as a Junior. His education goals beyond his Bachelor's degree would be to get accepted into the Corporate Communication Master's degree program at the University of Texas at Austin. His current job at USAA is in the insurance department, but he hopes to move into the communication department soon and get a head start on his career.

Raul isn't all business, though. He enjoys going out with his friends, listening to music, trying new restaurants and traveling. His favorite place he's vacationed was Cancun, Mexico where he claims he will never be able to forget the experience. He loves the beach and was blown away by the beauty of the city. Raul says he wouldn't mind living near a beautiful beach in the future.

Rachel Lauten Bio

By: Sierra Tyler

mc1313.sierrat@gmail.com

Rachel Lauten is a Junior, advertising major with a minor in business. Hailing from Houston, Texas, she chose Texas State University for its beautiful campus. 

 As an advertising major she is looking forward to being creative and is excited to see how advertising works and what it can do socially. So far, her favorite class has been Gender Behaviors. After graduation she hopes to work in the sports advertising field.

When she is not busy studying for classes, she enjoys watching Netflix, especially "Black Mirror," and working out. She is also a Disney Parks enthusiast and has visited the park five times since 2015, with two of those times being in the past six months.

Angelica Cruz-Rodriguez

By: Nellie Perry
nmp33@txstate.edu
@nellie_perry

Angelica Cruz-Rodriguez, January 22, 2018

Angelica Cruz-Rodriguez is a family oriented, kind, positive twenty-one-year-old senior in Journalism and Mass Communications with an emphasis in Electronic Media at Texas State University. While she finishes her senior year, Angelica helps her mother with her store and works part-time in Austin, where she grew up. Angelica is also double minoring in Spanish and psychology as a first-generation college student, and she still somehow finds the spare time to partake in her favorite hobbies – binge-watching shows on Netflix and using YouTube to teach herself the piano. When Angelica graduates, she is looking forward to taking some much earned time off to visit her grandmother and cousins in Mexico before returning to the U.S. to pursue an official career.

Prince Imo

By: Ben Blanton
Bjb158@txstate.edu

Photo by: Ben Blanton

Prince Imo is not your typical college student. Prince went to Alief Early College High school, which allowed him to take college credit classes. In doing so, enabled him to graduate high school with not only a diploma, but with an associate’s degree as well. Prince now attends Texas State University and is in the process of getting a Public Relations Degree with a minor in Communications Studies and Leadership.

Prince was originally born in Nigeria, then moved to Chicago where he attended middle school. In 2009 he moved to Houston where he found his passion, dancing. Prince got involved in dancing when he was a freshman in high school and fell in love with it.  He then joined many dance groups out of school but didn’t really like them. When he came to Texas State he founded a dance group called “Kids Next Door," a coed group who dance to primarily hip hop music. At the Texas State Spring Talent Show, Prince and his group won 1st place overall.

        In the near future, Prince hopes to get his master’s degree but he does not know where he wants to do that yet. His ultimate goal is to move to Los Angeles and work with choreographers such as Willdabeast, Alexander Chung and Tricia Miranda.

Katie Irwin

By: Corey Hammonds
cnh83@txstate.edu

    

Photo by: Corey Hammonds

Miss Katie Irwin is a twenty-two-year-old Texas State student that came from Leander, Texas. Katie is finishing up her senior year majoring in Public Relations while also getting a minor in media studies. Katie has a heart and an eye for television and films. Katie and her father always watched movies together growing up and the one she fell in love with was The Fifth Element; Katie knew right then she wanted to be in the television business. 

     Whenever Katie graduates from Texas State University she wants to fulfill her dreams and get into the digital media field; her profession could be focused on entertainment or it could be strictly business. Katie has experience in managing a blog and a Twitter page that has to do with Mass Communication. I am happy that I was able to have an interview with Katie and I wish her the very best in her future.

Zachary Smith MC1313

Shelley Kellar
s_k194@txstate.edu

Zachary Smith (Photo Credit: Shelley Kellar)

Zachary Smith is a 21-year-old transfer student. He began his college education at Stephen F. Austin, then transferred to Santa Fe Art and Design and is now settled at Texas State University majoring in Digital Media Innovation.

Zachary is not only a student but an entrepreneur who co-created a website called schmooger.com. The website is geared toward trends based on your location and are most importantly, Instagram worthy. Excitingly enough, Zachary, as well as his co-creator, presented their website to the Howard Hughes Corporation over Christmas break 2017. Zachary said the idea came to him when he met Scott Paul, former Vice President at Makers Studios for Disney, and it has taken off since then.

My interaction with Zachary Smith was very intriguing, he was extremely forthcoming with his information and left me feeling as though he will do more great things after he has graduated from Texas State University. His passion and drive for the tech industry, as well as discovering new things, left me believing I could definitely learn a lot of from him!

HALLIE COLBERT

By: Fabien Moreno

Fabienmoreno1331@yahoo.com

 Hallie Colbert

Photo by: Fabien Moreno

Hallie Colbert is a Junior attending Texas State University. Hallie’s Major is Mass Communications with a specific focus in Digital Media.

She finds that this area of study is the best occupation that fits her vast style of learning and skill criteria, ultimately allowing her to dabble in many different career paths.

As much as she loves to learn, Hallie loves to teach. When she isn’t making her 45 minute commute to campus, Hallie is tutoring a history student or teaching her 1 of 2 yoga classes.

Hallie spends her free time enjoying the outside world. She loves long walks in the park, loves to adventure in the wilderness and take photos of mother nature. She also enjoys reading and her favorite genre to read is historical fiction or slice of life novels, books that teach you about life.

Because of an allergy that plays a huge role in her 20-years of life, Hallie has become quite the cook. She is allergic to corn which happens to be in mostly everything food packaging and the food industry has to offer. Eating out is no easy task and buying processed foods are no good so instead she creates her own dishes. Her diet consists mainly of proteins such as chicken, beef, and fish along with vegetables in every dish.

Nellie Perry Bio

By: Angelica Cruz-Rodriguez

aac125@txstate.edu

Nellie Perry
Photo By: Angelica Cruz-Rodriguez

Nellie Perry is a 20 year-old sophomore at Texas State University, who is majoring in Journalism and Mass Communications, concentrating in Digital Media. She is from a small beach town on the coast of Texas named Palacios. Her love for living near a body of water made the San Marcos River one of the deciding factors in attending Texas State. Another deciding factor was that Perry enjoys reading and writing, and wanted to pursue an English degree at Texas State. Once at the school she discovered that although she took pleasure in narrative writing, she was better suited for expository writing, resulting in changing her major to Journalism and Mass Communications. Perry still makes time to enjoy her hobbies of reading and writing but she also spends her time working towards a Journalism and Mass Communications degree, getting involved with political organizations at the university, and working as a server at Texas Roadhouse.