STUDENT SPOTLIGHTS

Leanna Griffith ’22

MAJOR: Graphic Design

Leanna’s internship experiences taught her about what she believes to be important values as a designer. While interning with London-based startup Play Verto, she enjoyed a lot of responsibility and creative freedom. One of the highlights was creating design elements for the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative, which made her feel she was making a meaningful contribution toward social development.

She also worked as a run/train graphic designer at Puma’s North American headquarters, just a few miles from campus. There, she found pride in working for a global corporation with an enormous reach.

“Your work can be seen by millions with the click of a button,” she said. “It also taught me so much about the entire design process, and all the pieces of the puzzle that are put together by the various teams to ensure that the company keeps growing.”

For her senior thesis, Leanna created— from the patterns and pieces to the packaging, poster and publication design—a sustainable fashion brand, LENSU, that brings awareness to the urgent issue of ocean plastic pollution.

Alaina Martin ’22

MAJORS:

International Relations and Economics Alaina’s career aspiration is to apply economics to real-world problems at home and abroad through policy and urban development initiatives. The interdisciplinary double major understood the best way to identify the issues important to her was to gain as much real-world experience as possible during her time at Emmanuel.

“All of my experiences have been extremely valuable, both in determining what I want to do and what wasn’t the best fit for me.”

Alaina’s Internships

• United Nations Association of Greater Boston • The Borgen Project (nonprofit organization addressing global poverty) • U.S. Economic

Development Administration • Boston Planning &

Development Agency • Office of Massachusetts Governor

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