What kind of work have you done since MAPH? I see you work as marketing director for an arts festival, do you feel that your time at MAPH prepared you for this career?
After graduating from MAPH, I worked in telemarketing at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, front of house at Goodman Theatre, and subscription sales at Steppenwolf Theatre before securing my first full-time job at a publishing company in Chicago suburbs. There, I wrote sympathy cards and joke-a-day calendars that ended up in the remainder bins at Walmart. I quickly began looking for an organization with a more humanitarian mission where I could put my writing and editing skills to better use…