Profile

 

Daniela Don­cel is a grad­u­ate of the Uni­verisi­ty of Con­necti­cut where she was a Dean’s List stu­dent study­ing journ­laism, French and cre­ative writ­ing. With this set of diverse skills, she intends to pur­sue a career in the jour­nal­ism field.

Daniela was the news direc­tor and a reporter at WHUS Radio, UCon­n’s award-win­ning col­lege radio sta­tion. She also wrote for the uni­ver­si­ty’s stu­dent news­pa­per, the Dai­ly Cam­pus, as a news cam­pus cor­re­spon­dent. She also show­cased a more cre­ative form of writ­ing through Spoon Uni­ver­si­ty, an online food blog writ­ten by and for col­lege stu­dents. She was pres­i­dent pres­i­dent of UCon­n’s Coali­tion of Writ­ers club and a mem­ber of the poet­ry pan­el for the Long Riv­er Review, the uni­ver­si­ty’s annu­al lit­er­ary magazine.

While at UConn, Daniela had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to study abroad in Paris as the Sor­bonne Uni­ver­si­ty dur­ing the fall semes­ter of 2016. 

When she isn’t writ­ing, she enjoys read­ing in a wide-range of gen­res, writ­ing nov­el-length sto­ries and poems, lis­ten­ing to vinyl records and relax­ing with her York­shire Ter­ri­er, Meela.

Daniela­grad­u­at­ed in May 2019.