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Honor Society® member

Sandra Songbird

Program Assistant II - Multicultural Affairs at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology - currentlty

  • Black Hills State University Spearfish Campus
  • Mass Communications, Integrated Media
  • Class of 2017
  • Black Hawk, South Dakota

Member since June 2016

About

Currently in my 3rd year of undergraduate degree. December 2017 is my slated graduation date.

Education

  • Black Hills State Unversity

    Mass Commuications/Commercial Art

    2014 – 2017

Honors and awards

  • John T. Vucurevich Foundation Scholarship

    Merit based scholarship

  • AAIA Allogan Slagle Memorial Scholarship

    AAIA - Association on American Indian Affairs merit-based scholarship

  • Mary TallMountain Poetry Award

    1996 Bay Area Award for Best New Poet - San Francisco

  • Rounddance

    Creative Work Fund Grant Project

Goals and interests

Career goal

Working with Graphic Arts, Journalism, Animation, Photography, Digital Media fields etc. Possibly on to Graduate School to further learn my skills in integrated media.

Graduate school interests

Champlain College - Digital Media program

Outside the classroom

gardening, making dreamcatchers, doing graphic art, drawing, digital art, painting, writing poetry, refurbishing/reducing/reusing/recycling, powwows, walking in woods, hiking, swimming, bird watching, kayaking, canoeing, etc.

Experience

  • Program Assistant II - Multicultural Affairs

    South Dakota School of Mines & Technology - currentlty

    Oct 2008 – Jun 2018

  • Native Legacy Magazine

    freelance reporter

    Sep 2008 – Dec 2010

  • West River Senior Staff Reporter

    Dakota Lakota Journal

    Jan 2005 – Jun 2009

Volunteering

  • Co-Advisor

    American Indian Science and Engineering Society

    Jan 2009

Languages

  • English (US) Fluent

Additional information