Younger me didn’t always believe college was possible. Truthfully, I didn’t always know if college was for me.
But today, I stand here having completed my master’s degree while also living life as a full-time working musician, educator, and professor.
This journey was built through late nights, thousands of written words, research, theory classes, rehearsals, performances, ensembles, lesson plans, a recital, recording projects, and more moments of self-doubt than I can count. But even through all of that, I kept showing up. I kept choosing growth. I kept saying yes to the conscious unveiling of my gifts.
And now I can say it:
I did it.
I’m grateful to God for keeping me grounded, sane, covered, and at peace through every season of this process. I’m grateful for my family, friends, mentors, students, colleagues, and community who poured into me, prayed for me, believed in me, and reminded me who I was when I needed it most.
Thank you, Sacramento State, for shaping me, stretching me, and giving me the space to become more fully myself.
This is more than a degree. This is a testimony.
And from here?
It’s all the way up. 🎓✨
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