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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE LAUNCHES HOUSE WARS
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| What would happen if someone combined the hit television shows “Survivor” and “Trading Spaces”? Ask Nicole Facciuto, Cottey Class of 1995. She was one of the professional designers on USA Network’s series “House Wars.” Facciuto was cast as one of the series four designers. Last season, she was one of the designers on Oxygen Network’s show “Nice Package.” |
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CLICK TRAIL:
 Alexa Harris
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Looking at the World with Fresh Eyes
Alexa A. Harris, ’2007, is a Comparative Women’s Studies major with a concentration in “Documenting Women and Digital Media” from Franklin, Virginia. Throughout her college career she has interned with numerous media outlets in the areas of print and broadcast journalism, television production, radio, event planning, marketing and public relations. |
At Spelman, she has worked as co-managing editor of
"The Spelman Spotlight" and with the Spelman Independent Scholars (SIS) Oral History Project, a two-semester independent, interdisciplinary and intergenerational learning experience. She traveled to Ghana to learn from traditional healers about the history and culture of Ghana while a member of the SIS program, and she also contributed to the Project's second anthology of “Their Memories, Our Treasure: Conversations with African American Women of Wisdom,” a compilation of narratives told by 22 African-American women from the South who range in age from 60 to 104.
Alexa, who aspires to become an executive producer for television, plans to bring to light topics not often covered in the media, while simultaneously endorsing positive images of women and underrepresented communities. During her junior year, she co-produced a documentary with two of her classmates entitled, “Part of the Equation: Black Women Speak on Eating Disorders,” which screened at Spelman in April 2006.
As a recent recipient of the Black Women in Film Preservation Project scholarship, a 2006 graduate of the Women of Excellence Leadership (WEL) Series at Spelman, and a participant of the 2005 U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Rodger’s Visit Program, Alexa Harris is well on her way toward success in the media arena. This summer she interned in the marketing department of New Line Cinema in Los Angeles, California and took classes at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Alexa Harris faithfully lives by her motto, “If it’s to be, it’s up to me,” and the Spelman community looks forward to watching this rising star as she transforms the way we view women in the media.
- From Student Spotlight, Spelman College |
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