I am a Senior at The Perth Amboy High School from Perth Amboy, New Jersey. I am in the 2021 graduating class within the Communications Academy. I enjoy painting and taking photos. I love taking footage and the editing part of production. Aside from that, I also enjoy creative writing. When I am not Writing, Painting, taking photos or creating videos, I am either playing video games, driving around my town or taking care of my 4 birds, My dog and my cat.

To explore one’s creativity without fear or boundary at an early age is the closest thing to real life magic. For me, bright colored acrylic strokes across a blank canvas and reading through the Werewolf section of Wattpad led to my first real love of storytelling. I made sense of reality by dabbling with pastels, paints and photographs and by creating fictional worlds and characters on both paper and mixed media. In this way, I began to find my voice and also my identity through Art.

In High School, I had the opportunity of choosing my own educational path. Through the Communications Academy, I was offered the chance to further advance my passion for storytelling through a variety of classes such as Video Production, Journalism, Communications and Foundations of Art. Learning to write about other people’s stories and about things that really matter in my community in the Newspaper club after school, I also found a newfound confidence in my creativity and public speaking. Using these skills in my pursuit of a Graphic Design and Visual Arts degree in college, I hope to get one step closer to achieving my dream of being a Content Creator.

My biggest supporter when it comes to my art has been my father. He has taught me that dedication and determination are the only ways to achieve success.

Monica Ramirez

Objective,

I would like to apply my media based learning from the communications academy to a career in Graphic Design or anything that revolves around computer art.

Education

Graduation | 2021 | Perth Amboy High School

English Honors - Sophomore Year
US History II Honors - Sophomore Year
Communications Academy: Intro to Communications - Sophomore Year
Communications Academy: Foundation of Production and Design - Sophomore Year
English III Honors - Junior Year
Communications Academy: Video Production - Junior Year
Communications Academy: Journalism - Junior Year
English IV Honors - Senior Year
Communications Academy: Advanced Video Production
Clubs - Newspaper, Video

Skills & Abilities

Bilingual - Spanish and English.
An ability that I have is writing fictional stories.
Video Production: Taking videos/pictures and creating content (editing)

Painting with acrylics.

Experience

Perth Amboy Youth Alliance | Recreational Center | 2016-2018

My key responsibilities were to attend monthly meetings and contribute to community service through public events and community dinners/cleanups.