Storyteller | Traveler | Conversationalist

I’m a storyteller.

Whether it be dur­ing an inter­view or a casu­al con­ver­sa­tion, I nev­er hes­i­tate to exchange sto­ries with peo­ple whom I encounter.

I’m a traveler.

If plane tick­ets were free, you would find me in a dif­fer­ent coun­try every week. The world is too big for us to stick around in one place.

I’m a conversationalist.

I believe in the pow­er of talk­ing with any­one and every­one. It nev­er ceas­es to amaze me where a sim­ple chat can lead.

I’m proud of my roots.

As a descen­dant of Euro­pean immi­grants, anoth­er impor­tant part of me is my her­itage. I take great pride in know­ing where I come from and believe it’s essen­tial to help me know where I’m going.

 

Those are defining traits of who I am as an individual. But let’s not forget the more “formal” details.

 

I grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut in May 2019 with bach­e­lor’s degrees in jour­nal­ism and polit­i­cal science. 

My jour­nal­is­tic expe­ri­ence ranges from cre­at­ing a fea­ture video about sus­tain­able agri­cul­ture to writ­ing an arti­cle about U.S. insti­tu­tions con­tro­ver­sial­ly hold­ing on to lost reli­gious man­u­scripts from Greece.

To see more of my work, please refer to the “Writ­ten Work” and “Video Work” tabs under the “Port­fo­lio” section.

My skillset includes soft­ware such as Adobe Pre­mier, Audi­tion and Light­room, among oth­ers. I am also high­ly pro­fi­cient in DSLR pho­tog­ra­phy. To see sam­ples of my pho­tog­ra­phy, please vis­it my Insta­gram pro­file — @dardenography.

Last but cer­tain­ly not least, I’m mul­ti­lin­gual and can com­mu­ni­cate flu­ent­ly in three lan­guages — Eng­lish, Span­ish and Greek. If you’re won­der­ing how, I would be glad to tell you my sto­ry… in any of the three lan­guages of course!

Please contact me directly via email: darden.livesay3@gmail.com