"I never knew something like a poster would draw me to such a great college,”

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In another clear sign of destiny, her art teacher in form three—the Ghanaian equivalent to ninth grade in the United States—was 澳门金沙投注_任你博-官网 alumna Mansa Nkrumah ’96 (Visual Communication Design). Nkrumah explained to Nayo that going to school at 澳门金沙投注_任你博-官网 would be a lot of work, but absolutely worth it. After researching other schools and their animation programs, Nayo knew 澳门金沙投注_任你博-官网 was the school for her.

“It took me many months until I traveled to see 澳门金沙投注_任你博-官网 face-to-face and realized I really made it,” Nayo said. She also said she found inspiration in everyone at the College—her teachers and the students— who each have unique talents.

I met some artists who, like me, are really good at what they want to do, and others who discover they’re good at something else. Sometimes, it’s you who inspires them; it really is a great community of talents.”

Nayo is currently an animator based in Baltimore, where she is working at Storyfarm on educational videos about gun control. Before then she created e-book videos for children learning linguistics in the SmartCoos app program; the work there included creative educational videos for children learning languages that range from French to Mandarin.