Featured Photos
Photos I have taken for The Union newspaper and Warrior Life Magazine
Featured Articles
Explore a selection of my writing work below.
The Hairapist is in: a mother’s experience with freelancing, her educational career and cancer
A black makeup toolkit is pulled from a suitcase and set on a desk.
Once it is opened, a colorful assortment of products organized in pockets such as brushes, face and eyeshadow primers, facial moisturizer and hair clips are ready to use.
An El Camino College student sits on a salon chair in the college’s cosmetology department. A black makeup cape is draped over her and a tissue is wrapped around her neck.
Yuika Nakai, 25, a cosmetology major, is asked if she is comfortable in her current posit...
Once it is opened, a colorful assortment of products organized in pockets such as brushes, face and eyeshadow primers, facial moisturizer and hair clips are ready to use.
An El Camino College student sits on a salon chair in the college’s cosmetology department. A black makeup cape is draped over her and a tissue is wrapped around her neck.
Yuika Nakai, 25, a cosmetology major, is asked if she is comfortable in her current posit...
From classroom to curator: A rebel artist’s journey
Carrie Lockwood was sitting in her kindergarten class when she was a child.
She was cutting a workpiece of paper with scissors.
Her teacher noticed something, knelt beside Lockwood and asked, “Carrie, why can you not cut on the lines?”
She was floored by that question.
“Why do I have to cut on the lines? Why can’t I cut where I want to cut?” Lockwood said to herself.
For Lockwood, that moment is when she knew she had an art mentality.
A rebel artist was born.
Years later, Lockwood, 62, is now an...
She was cutting a workpiece of paper with scissors.
Her teacher noticed something, knelt beside Lockwood and asked, “Carrie, why can you not cut on the lines?”
She was floored by that question.
“Why do I have to cut on the lines? Why can’t I cut where I want to cut?” Lockwood said to herself.
For Lockwood, that moment is when she knew she had an art mentality.
A rebel artist was born.
Years later, Lockwood, 62, is now an...
After nearly three decades working at El Camino, enrollment services dean set to retire end of the month
A former professional baseball player who became an El Camino College dean is approaching the end of a nearly 30-year career working to support students.
Cheers and applause from the dean’s family, El Camino administrators, faculty and staff engulfed the East Dining Room as he smiled, took in the moment and was adorned with a retirement sash.
Robin Dreizler, dean of enrollment services, entered the room on Wednesday, April 17 a few minutes after 2 p.m. for the baseball-themed retirement celebrat...
Cheers and applause from the dean’s family, El Camino administrators, faculty and staff engulfed the East Dining Room as he smiled, took in the moment and was adorned with a retirement sash.
Robin Dreizler, dean of enrollment services, entered the room on Wednesday, April 17 a few minutes after 2 p.m. for the baseball-themed retirement celebrat...
Wash, rinse, repeat: Best laundromats near El Camino
Two rows of drying machines on a wall inside Magic Laundry located in a small plaza between Rosecrans Avenue and West 145th Street in Lawndale on Sunday, March 26. (Eddy Cermeno | The Union)
A laundromat can be more than just a place to wash and dry your clothes.
Many can offer services and other goods inside their respective businesses to make a patron’s stay more beneficial.
The quality of a laundromat’s machines and where it is located can also sway people to choose one place over another....
A laundromat can be more than just a place to wash and dry your clothes.
Many can offer services and other goods inside their respective businesses to make a patron’s stay more beneficial.
The quality of a laundromat’s machines and where it is located can also sway people to choose one place over another....
Featured Page Designs
Page designs I have created on Adobe InDesign for The Union newspaper and Warrior Life magazine
Journey of former El Camino College Dean of Humanities Debra Breckheimer
Explore an El Camino College Student Art Exhibition
