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A fashionista with a flair for entrepreneurship
“You can use fashion to empower people, even people who say they’re not interested in fashion. If I’m going to start something, I want to start something that is a force for good and something positive that will uplift you when you look at it.”
Alexandra Hehlen ’18 has always had a passion for writing about fashion. A Robertson Scholar from Los Alamos, New Mexico, she founded Coulturemagazine as a sophomore to further pursue her interests, fill a void she discovered in student journalism, challenge the fashion industry’s norms and make fashion accessible to everyone.
Carolina’s only fashion and lifestyle magazine, Coulture, is supported through the School of Media and Journalism’s Workroom: FashionMash initiative — which is made possible by a $1 million gift from alumni Bill and Leigh Goodwyn.
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Aiding people through technology. That idea is what fuels Ayana Monroe’s passion for conducting research in human-computer interaction. The double major in computer science and information science discovered that passion through internships at John Hopkins University, the National Security Agency, Onyx Point, and AstraZeneca.
As a Chancellor’s Science Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, Ayana has engaged in different kinds of work, such as building a news authentication tool through the Humans and Technology Lab at Clemson University and writing a research paper on human-computer interaction.
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Aiding people through technology. That idea is what fuels Ayana Monroe’s passion for conducting research in human-computer interaction. The double major in computer science and information science discovered that passion through internships at John Hopkins University, the National Security Agency, Onyx Point, and AstraZeneca.
As a Chancellor’s Science Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, Ayana has engaged in different kinds of work, such as building a news authentication tool through the Humans and Technology Lab at Clemson University and writing a research paper on human-computer interaction.
Her experience in research has reaffirmed her ultimate goal of becoming a professor, a goal she said she’s had since middle school.
“I’ve done a lot of volunteering and always liked teaching young people about computer science, and so I’d like to become a professor. That’s something I’ve known since middle school. It always seemed like a grand profession — to teach people everywhere. To teach people who will go on to teach people.”
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