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Hello, fellow reader!

We truly took our time with this edition. Some began to believe that Thrive Magazine just wasn’t going to publish this school year. And, if I’m being honest, I was getting nervous as well.

With Joey Leszczynski passing his beloved club down to me, I felt I had big shoes to fill. Specifically, the purple and green ones that I told him looked like Green Goblin from Spider-man. This was almost always followed by him calling me a hater, to which I had to defend myself replying, “I’m not a hater, they’re just ugly.” All jokes aside, the pressure was high, but I was determined.

We started off strong. New executive board members with a lot of potential, general member meetings with interested supporters, co-advisors who always made the meetings a blast. How could I not get excited? This was it. The little green Thrive ball started rolling and I knew where it was headed. That sense of control led to my confidence in the goal I had set out to achieve: continuing Joey’s legacy with, yet another amazing magazine.

However, life doesn’t exactly happen that way. Setbacks occurred. Suddenly, the green ball was starting to deflate and, with it, the confidence I once felt. Mental health struggles, falling outs, eboard members quitting. Thrive was crumbling. But to me, it wasn’t over. I may have lost my confidence, but the determination was still there. I started meditating, we got some new eboard members to join our journey, and the guidance of our co-advisors helped us to get back on our feet.

So, I want to give a big thank you to co-advisors Haley Sherman and Harry Riel, my eboard members, and, most of all to you, the reader, for your patience. We put our heart and soul into this edition about what students around our campus put their heart and soul into. So, without further ado, I present to you the fifth edition of Thrive magazine. I hope it inspires you as much as it did I.

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outlet. I was always eager to learn more at my singing lessons. After years of extracurricular activities in high school, all the energy it required left me burnt out. I knew college would come with a strenuous workload, which is why when I began that journey, I vowed to only focus on my academics. After a semester of

not having a creative outlet, I began to not feel like myself and found it hard to fit in. At a school like Bryant, everyone has a place where they belong. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon a music video created by The Bottom Line A Cappella called “She Ain’t Me,” that singing would once again become my savior.

There was no way I would sit and watch a group of individuals produce something so creative, and have no part in it. So, when spring rolled around, I auditioned. Shockingly, I got in! Soon after, what I thought would be a side hobby, turned into a full-time passion overnight. It became a part of me. For all that The Bottom Line has done for me, including saving my college experience, I knew I needed to give back to an organization that gave me everything. The Bottom Line became a place where I could express myself, in my most authentic form. I had been surrounded by twenty other talented and passionate individuals, who quickly became my best friends and family.

Since a young age, music has allowed me to tell a story and share narratives in a way that goes beyond the constraints of spoken or written language.

Song lyrics and melodies become a canvas on which I can paint my experiences, hopes, and dreams. While all of this has been true throughout my singing career, The Bottom Line elevated my mode of expression by creating a home. My home.

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Interested in joining the Thrive Team?

Email us: thrivemagazine@bryant. edu

General Meetings: Wednesdays at 3:30 PM UNISTUCTURE 247

Make your move!

We are the Bryant Chess Club. We invite anyone interested in chess at any level to hang out, play chess, and meet some new friends.

Come by and play some games! We meet Thursdays @4pm in Uni 347! See you there!

Why did you choose the Black woman’s experience at a predominately white institution as the topic of your thesis?

When I was tasked to brainstorm a topic for my honors thesis, I went through my academic experiences, personal experiences and curiosities and landed on my identity. I explored topics of political science, policy, global studies, culture, etc. and couldn’t stop thinking about all the heavily emotional conversations with multiple close friends of mine and what that meant. As Black women, we shared very similar experiences and understandings of life. We spoke of encounters within the PWI we attended, feeling like we don’t fit in with the typical beauty standard, navigating life, figuring out our values, and more. With these conversations, I couldn’t ignore the clear presence of the systems (white supremacy and patriarchy) we live in, and I wanted to academically explore this in hopes of understanding it more. I decided to create this documentary to utilize my resources here on campus before I left while exploring my interest in photography and videography. It was an artistic way to express my findings.

What was le process documentary?

Through gathering many interviews and b-roll (secondary footage to support the primary footage), utilizing CapCut editing, and meeting with my editorial reviewer and advisor, my documentary was born. Tom Zammarelli, my editorial reviewer, gave me a lot of great tips. Whether it was using the camera, camera editing, creating an edit decision list (EDL), gathering b-roll, lighting and angles, and using microphones, his expertise was extremely helpful in the process. My advisor, Alex Perullo, was conducive with utilizing narratives and ma Their support of my vision was significant within the process. I wanted this documentary to be a platform where the women could be listened to. For other to see what part institutional systems play. For the message to be understood.

I really hope the frameworks I used were present and understood by the audience. The theoretical frameworks of my work are intersectionality theory, invisibility theory, and Black Feminist theory. Black Feminism stands out the most to me due to its vision of advocating for Black women along with all women of color and marginalized groups overall. The hopes for my final thesis presentation were for the recommendations given to the higher education institutes prepping us for the professional and adult world and generally the current interactions m schools.

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BUNEEC is Bryant CEOs signature event; a conference completely planned by the students in CEO, we bring in students and young entrepreneurs from across the Northeast to hear from industry visionaries and "new-thought" leaders.