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SUMMARY:Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:4th annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\n“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”\n-Anne Lamott \nAbout The Event\nUCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English cordially invite you to our fourth annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2025. In this series of panels\, students from the Professional Writing Minor (PWM) will present an exciting array of capstone seminar projects. \nA new and growing minor with just eleven graduating seniors in 2020\, forty-three of the PWM’s eighty-one graduating seniors in AY 24-25 will present on a rich diversity of topics that exemplify the range\, depth\, and individualized paths possible within the Professional Writing Minor. From Rachel Zegler to the Armenian diaspora\, urban planning to the effects of SSRIs during pregnancy\, students from diverse majors will share their original work in a range of genres including memoirs\, websites\, zines\, research articles\, and digital marketing campaigns. \nThe colloquium is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Friends\, family\, faculty\, staff\, and students are welcome to attend. Join us to experience writing as an act of both communication and exploration as these emerging writers and soon-to-be graduates share their insights and discoveries. \nSchedule\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter\nPresentation Title\n\n\nAnnika Anbiai-Fard\nThe Bluest Eye: Past and Present Plight\n\n\nMatthew Beymer\nA Young Actor Prepares\n\n\nMadison Browning\nMoving Puppets: Dance Theater and Vocalization\n\n\nAngelica Catalan\nEchándole Ganas: A Memoir\n\n\nNatalie Chapin\nRags to Riches: Investigating the American Masterplot\n\n\nLeila Chiddick\nCookbook of Memoirs\n\n\nDanielle Cho\nIn Between Worlds: A Memoir\n\n\nNaomi Chou\nAcross Borders\, Beyond Myself\n\n\nJonathan Cohn\nPersuasive Messaging in Hillel at UCLA’s Instagram Paid Social Outreach\n\n\nNatalie Denhardt\nCodification of Stories: Preserving and Promoting Native Hawaiian Culture Through the Legal System\n\n\nEmmy Etlin\nShifting Gears: Reflections on Graduating College\n\n\nDelia Falliers\nNecessary Research: Long Term Effects of SSRIs in Utero\n\n\nMiranda Fogel\nFrom Concept to Cocktail: A Strategic Business Plan for My Alcoholic Beverage\n\n\nLuciaceleste Garcia\nWhy I Wake: A Personal Search for Purpose\n\n\nSarah Gauger\nDreams\, Seizures\, and the Veil Between\n\n\nRoxanne Ha\nPersona: A Journey to Discovering My Authentic Self\n\n\nLucy Herlihy\nThe Potential of a Child\n\n\nMicah Hoffman\nDeconstructing Plot: Alternative Approaches to Storytelling\n\n\nAda Jack\nChoosing a Major: Investigating UCLA Students’ Motivations\n\n\nOlivia Johnson\n45 Days as a Powell’s Bookseller\n\n\nAmariyah Lane-Volz\nA Dog Returning To Vomit: A Memoir of Text Messages\, Abuse\, and Media Consumption\n\n\nSophie Lattu\nPirating and Ownership in the Arts\n\n\nSophia Manos\nAcetabular Labral Tears in Female Collegiate Rowers: A Case Study from UCLA’s Division I Program\n\n\nAlex McCullough\nDon’t Let Me Forget: A Memoir\n\n\nJacob Mora\nA Sexual Health Guide: Mental Health\, Attitudes\, and Access\n\n\nAutumn Morgan\nBlack Diamond Series Bible\n\n\nKimberly Muro\nWhat’s Next?: Reflections on Life After High School\n\n\nNicole Pacheco\nGuardian Angel: A Memoir\n\n\nIsabella Orr\nIsolation Increase: An Essay Investigating the Loneliness Epidemic\n\n\nKristen Perez\nUnbound: A Feminist Literary Review\n\n\nValerie Prado\nDisentangling Disneyland from Anaheim: The City Beyond the Park\n\n\nMaya Rego\n75 albums in 75 days\n\n\nIsabel Rodriguez\nFrom Classrooms to Sidewalks: Accessibility at UCLA & Beyond\n\n\nOluwadamilola Salami\nSelf-Discovery & Becoming Through Writing\n\n\nDiana Sargsyan\nHomeland: A Matter of Identity\n\n\nLeah Snyderman\nEast and West: Place Identity in Fiction and Reality\n\n\nJane Sonnichsen\nBADLANDS: Rise of the Female Gunslinger\n\n\nJanelle Soriano\nThe Female Persona in Hollywood: Crafting Acceptable Femininity in the Age of Social Media\n\n\nCitlali Tejeda\nBeyond the Skyline: Stories from an Unseen L.A.\n\n\nSoraya Tofighrad\nAn (Impolite) Lesson in Self-Empathy: A Middle Eastern American Memoir\n\n\nTaylor Wallace\nPush Your Luck: A Look into Film\n\n\nSiena Wong\nThe New Yorker by Siena Wong\n\n\nEsther Zhang\nA Middle School Curricula: Writing in the Age of AI\n\n\n\nThe PWM Capstone Seminars are led in Sp25 by Writing Programs faculty\, Drs. Amber West\, Dana Cairns Watson\, Laurel Westrup\, and Maja Manojlovic. \nEvent flyer links: 8.5×11 / Square
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SUMMARY:Writing Your Future: Careers and Pathways for Writers
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with professionals from diverse fields who will share their career journeys—from the challenges and rewards of making a living as a writer to finding fulfilling work that keeps writing at the center. Whether you’re on a traditional career path or wondering how to build a life around writing\, this discussion will offer valuable insights into the many professional opportunities available to strong communicators. Bring your questions and learn how to turn your writing skills into a rewarding career after graduation. \nPanelists: \nLaShea Delaney\, Freelance Writer\, Theatermaker\, Wine Pro\nJeffrey Janis\, UCLA Peace Corps Campus Recruiter and Returned Volunteer (Ukraine)\nWilla Needham\, Communications Specialist\, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (and UCLA alumna\, class of 2024)\nCarolyn Nelson Rowan\, J.D.\, Editor-in-Chief & Practicing Attorney\, Miller Starr Regalia \nWeek 9\, Wednesday \nMay 28\, 2025\n2:00 – 3:30 pm\n193 Kaplan Hall \nThis event is free and open to Professional Writing minors and other interested students. \nOrganized by UCLA Writing Programs’ Sp25 ECM185 instructors with grant support from the Teaching & Learning Center; for more information: wpinfo@humnet.ucla.edu. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Positive Ride Campus Visit: Inclusive Outdoor Recreation in Action
DESCRIPTION:Positive Ride Campus Visit: Inclusive Outdoor Recreation in Action\nThursday\, February 12\, 2026\n10am to 12pm\nOutdoor Amphitheater\nUCLA Mathias Botanical Garden \nAccess to nature matters—for health\, connection\, and belonging. But how do we ensure the great outdoors is truly inclusive? Join UCLA students from Eng Comp 130DX for a special campus visit with our community partner\, Positive Ride\, a nonprofit dedicated to making outdoor recreation accessible for people who use wheelchairs. \nOn Thursday\, February 12\, 2026\, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.\, representatives from Positive Ride will visit with us in the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden amphitheater (outdoor classroom) to showcase their adaptive recreation technology\, including wheelchair track extensions that open access to trails\, sand\, and a wide range of outdoor terrain. Attendees will learn about Positive Ride’s mission and community-centered approach to inclusive outdoor access\, with opportunities to see the technology up close and even try it out. \nOrganized by UCLA students committed to accessibility and community engagement\, this event aims to bring together diverse campus community members to explore critical questions about inclusivity\, mobility\, and belonging. All are welcome to attend\, including students\, alumni\, faculty\, and staff. \n\nSponsored by UCLA Writing Programs with support from the Center for Community Engagement’s Strategic Plan Grant Program: Building Departmental Capacity to Support Community-Engaged Teaching.
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SUMMARY:Creating Connections 2026
DESCRIPTION:Our theme for the 9th annual Creating Connections symposium on writing pedagogy is “Collaboration and Community.” This theme invites us to think about the ways writing helps us connect with our students\, colleagues\, and communities at large. In the face of dehumanizing technologies and increasingly divisive rhetoric\, collaboration becomes an act of resistance and care. This year’s symposium foregrounds how composition can be a shared practice to bring diverse–and sometimes disconnected–individuals and communities together. We will engage this theme through a range of interactive workshops and a keynote “lunch and learn” with Dr. Laura Gonzalez\, editor of Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric. Instructors will come away with a wide range of ideas to reinvigorate their teaching. \nThis event is free\, and we welcome interested UCLA graduate students\, instructors\, library staff\, and administrators from all departments and units to attend – please spread the word! Creating Connections is intended as an in-person event\, but we will provide a Zoom link (via RSVP) for those who would like to watch remotely. \nRSVP here by May 1\, 2026\n\nLocation\nYoung Research Library Main Conference Room (YRL 11360)\nZoom information will be provided via RSVP \nClick here for more information.
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Event Overview\nJoin us for the 5th Annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium! \n“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking\, what I’m looking at\, what I see and what it means.”\n-Joan Didion \nAbout the Colloquium\nUCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English are thrilled to invite you to our fifth annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2026. In a series of 45-minute panels across three days\, students from the Professional Writing Minor will present an exciting array of capstone seminar projects. Fifty-six students will present on a rich diversity of topics that exemplify the range\, depth\, and individualized paths possible within the Professional Writing Minor. From astronaut hearts to queer horror\, birthright citizenship to Los Angeles nightlife\, students from diverse majors will share their original work in a range of genres including memoirs\, websites\, zines\, research articles\, and more. The colloquium is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served\, and a short Q&A will follow each panel. Friends\, family\, faculty\, staff\, and students are welcome to attend. Join us to experience writing as an act of both communication and exploration as these emerging writers and soon-to-be graduates share their insights and discoveries. \nDates/Times/Location\nMay 19-21\, 2026\n126A Kaplan Hall\nTuesday\, 2 to 4:45 pm\nWednesday\, 9 to 10:45 am and 1 to 3:45 pm\nThursday\, 9 am to 1:45 pm and 3 to 3:45 pm \nPanel Schedule \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter Name\n(Alphabetized by First Name)\nPresentation Title\n\n\nAatmi Mehta\nAatmi’s Anatomy: A Scrapbook Across Science\, Culture\, and Curiosity\n\n\nAlexa Sanchez\nClosing the Care Gap: A Community-Based Childcare Model in Los Angeles\n\n\nAllison Broker\nWaiting: Essays on Identity\, Depression\, and Prolonged Gratification\n\n\nAllison Ito\nDoes My Vote Matter? A Case Study of Roe v. Wade\n\n\nAmo O’Neil\nViva La Innamorati!: Gen-Z\, Appetite\, and the Lost Art of Eroticism\n\n\nAnna Walburger\nThe Reasonable Person Standard: What the Law Says v. What Our Brains Do\n\n\nAshanti Bracamontes\nThe Hallyu Wave: A Look Into the KPOP Scene\n\n\nAurabelle Quinn\nFLOW Los Angeles: Exploring The Science of Stress and Wellness\n\n\nBerenice Limeta Jimenez\nThe Rise of Influencers & Its Effect\n\n\nDollie Swaim\nHaunted UCLA\n\n\nDylan Choppin\nThe Issues Faced by Young Men Today (And What We Are Missing)\n\n\nEliana Bernstein\nResilient Coast\n\n\nEvelyn Baran\nLiving With Mormons\n\n\nEvrim Tuncel\nState of Surveillance: Location Data Purchasing and the Omnipresent Border\n\n\nGia Boisselier\nBetween Species: Reflections on Human-Animal Relationships within UCLA\n\n\nIsabella Alioto\nHow to Eat Like A Dancer: Nourishing our bodies\, defining what is healthy\, and enjoying cooking\n\n\nJake Wayne\nThe Shape Shifting Nature of Long-Term Memory: Remembering as a form of re-experiencing for the first time\n\n\nJennifer Lopez\n“HEY YOU GUYS!!!”: A Brief History of The Electric Company (1971-2009)\n\n\nJessica Fine\nMore Than Friends: The Cultural Treatment of Lesbian Films Through History\n\n\nKaitlin Aguilar\nClub Penguin: How A Game is Created by You\, the Player\n\n\nKatherine Gussman\nDigital Nostalgia: Liminal Aesthetics and Emotional Experience in Digital Media\n\n\nLexi Adelstein\nVisible Support to Meet Invisible Struggles\n\n\nLucine Ekizian\nThe Art of Dissent: When should I speak up?\n\n\nLuke Nassief\nShakespeare in Love: The Invention of the Modern Oscar Campaign\n\n\nLupita Fernandez Garcia\nStu-Dents in History: An Archival Revival of the Voices of Student Activists at UCLA\n\n\nMariana de Oliveira Souza\nThe Space Cut: Identity and Representation in Space Sci-Fi Film\n\n\nMathilde Hebras\nWhat the Constitution Has to Say About Birthright Citizenship: Trump v. Barbara Court Opinion\n\n\nMaya Wertheim\nThe Elastic Heart\n\n\nMeadow Vokes\nQueer Horror Portal: Making Accessible the Queer History of Horror\n\n\nMeghan Do\nTerra Incognita\n\n\nMichael Gallagher\nProfile on a Soldier\n\n\nMiranda Rodriguez Benavides\nThe Axolotl: Nature’s Most Unusual Survivor\n\n\nMonica Thompson\nThe Death of General Aviation\n\n\nNadia Garabedian\nRealities Turned to Identity: Painting My Own Armenian Story\n\n\nNatalie Rodriguez Munoz\nSpeculative Futures for Inglewood: Reimagining Urban Development Through Speculative Fiction and Design\n\n\nNayaonika Vasishtha\nSeen and Othered: The Racial and Ethnic Experiences of the South Asian Diaspora\n\n\nOliver Mascarade\nSleep\, Punishment\, and State Power: How Our Justice System Determines Eighth and Fifth Amendment Violations\n\n\nPoornima Dorairaj\nFrom Courthouses to the Streets: Exploring and Understanding the Intersection of Policies and its implications on the Unhoused Community via their Voices\n\n\nRachel Gima\nHurricane Season: Learning When to Rebuild and When to Walk Away\n\n\nReese Dahlgren\nGrowing Pains\n\n\nReid Sperisen\nThe Elephants and Me\n\n\nRoma Yukilevich\nDressed to Kill: Toxic Chemical Exposure and Lack of Regulation in American Clothing\n\n\nRosario Acosta Guerrero\nThe Safe City Los Angeles: The Past and Future of Immigrant Legal Aid Nonprofits in Los Angeles\n\n\nSamantha Padilla\nThe American Perception made by The French portrayal of French History and Society through Media\n\n\nSamantha Preciado\nDefending Jus Soli: Constitutionality\, Racism\, and National Consequences\n\n\nSarah Arrosagaray\nWuornos to Gacy: How Gender Impacts the Sentencing of Violent Crime\n\n\nSarah Hinck\nOnline Voices: A Website on Digital Sexual Abuse of Minors for Young Adults and Parents\n\n\nShaun Thomas\nMedicine Needs Better Messengers: What Healthcare Can Learn from Media\n\n\nShirley Cruz\nLA Nightlife: A Guide\n\n\nSofia Lykos\nOn Creation During Vision Loss\n\n\nTaeya Mack\nSearching For Clues: Investigating the Diversity of Detective Fiction\n\n\nTatiana Santiago\nGen Z and Social Media: The Sequel\n\n\nTaylor Dierks\nForever Chemicals\, Forever Impact: The Environmental Cost of Military PFAS Pollution\n\n\nTori (Victoria) Leighton\nA Fisherwoman’s Guide: For and From a Beginner\n\n\nYehudis Weiss\nSpecial Education: How the System Fails Students & Why We Must Support Them\n\n\nYena Cho\nFirm in the Faith: The Evolution of Faith Across the Ages\n\n\n\n\nAccess a square image for the event in JPG format.\nAccess an 8.5×11 flier for the event in PDF format.\n\n\nThe PWM Capstone Seminars are led in Sp26 by Writing Programs faculty\, Drs. Amber West\, Maja Manojlovic\, Laurel Westrup\, Megan Stephan\, and Ms. Rachel Swanger.
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