Jasmine Coro | Northern Arizona University

 

Like J. Cole, J. Coro burns to create. I was born to be unique, as the daughter of multimedia junkies who made my talents as mixed as my ethnicity. I have been a proud Arizonan since I was 1 year old with roots across the state -- family in Tucson, a home in Phoenix and college studies in Flagstaff.

I have been blessed with the opportunities to follow my passions and explore my interests. A faith in God always remained while my efforts bounced from piano to dance to basketball to photography to graphic arts and much more when I joined 20 high school teams or clubs. I never gave up on any activity, sport, skill or hobby. I just kept adding onto them but my acumen for creative art was obvious from an early stage. Before my seventh-grade year, I won a high school photography contest at a national Jostens Yearbook camp and continued winning awards there annually until I became part of its staff last year.

As my ability matured, photography became a side business during high school. I took portraits and shot events while adding videography and graphics work to my skill set and becoming my high school’s yearbook editor and a contributor to campus television production, newspaper and social media.

It all led to being selected as the only student photographer for a campus visit from President Barack Obama and having my work and live tweets used in a slideshow on azcentral.com, the web site for the state’s largest newspaper, The Arizona Republic.

Those achievements and abilities carried over to a marketing internship with the Phoenix Better Business Bureau and a marketing job that involves photography, video and graphics at my college, Northern Arizona University, where I also am a newspaper photographer.

My career vision is to become an art director at an international level. I have begun that path by majoring in visual communications and Spanish at NAU. My dream job would start to feel real if I had this opportunity to be immersed in the creative world of the Forest Hills Drive Tour and Dreamville. In blending my ability, an understanding of J. Cole’s music and a love of hip-hop, I created a tour poster to reflect my home state and his latest album.

I believe that it is my personal responsibility to share my gifts with the world in hopes of making a positive impact on others. When I stand before God, I hope that I don’t have any untapped talent remaining. In no way am I perfect, nor do I strive to be. I simply wish to be something great and ignite a fire in others to do the same.

 

 

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, it is that we are powerful beyond measure."- ­­Maryanne Williamson

 

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