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College & Career Chats
College & Career Chat
Wednesday, May 15
4:45-5:45 PM ET
Virtual event; Open to all mentees, mentee alum, staff, and the public | Required for Main Road participants
This Chat will explore the essential attributes and pathways to creative fields, such as authorship, songwriting, fashion, graphic design, and interior design. Here is your chance to ask all of your burning questions about what it takes to make it in creative fields with a panel that includes representatives from Berkeley College, songwriter Stacie Rose, and literary agent Lucinda Halpern.
Meet the Facilitator
Azia Armstead
Azia Armstead (she/her) is a poet from Richmond, Virginia. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University where she received the Goldwater Fellowship. In 2019, Azia was a finalist for the Furious Flower Poetry Prize judged by A. Van Jordan and honorable mention for the Arts Club of Washington’s Scholarship Award for Poetry. Azia was chosen as a finalist for the 2023 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, The Quarry, Obsidian, Rattle and elsewhere. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
This event is open to:
all mentees, all mentors, program alum and the public