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Firdous Khezrian

Undergraduate Fellow, CEMI

Firdous Khezrian is a senior Corporate Communication major, pursuing a minor in Entertainment and Media Industries. She is the first in her family to pursue a career in law and hopes to refine the business practices of the entertainment industry by changing legal regulations across the globe. Her professional experience ranges from audio journalism to legal clerkships. She is currently the President of Minority Women Pursuing Law and holds a leadership position in business operations at The Drag Audio Production House. 
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Andrea Alarcon

Graduate Affiliate, CEMI

MA, Radio-Television-Film

Born and raised along the Texas border, Andrea moved to Austin to purse an M.A. in Media Studies. She received a B.A. in Communication with a minor in English at Texas A&M International University. At commencement, Andrea served as the Distinguished Student Scholar for the College of Arts and Sciences -- the university's largest academic unit. 

During her undergraduate years, Andrea took an interest in the concerns surrounding child influencers on social media. She composed a qualitative research proposal on this topic, examining monetary utilization, privacy, and exploitation. She plans to expand her research to provide comprehensive understand of the novel child influencers and to enable the development of policies protecting children's rights. 

Beyond academia, Andrea is an avid lover of film and art. If she is not at the theater, she is at a café practicing her calligraphy on a napkin. 

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Morgan Stone

Graduate Affiliate, CEMI

MA, Radio-Television-Film

Morgan is a first-year MA student in RTF at UT Austin. She completed her Bachelor's Degree in Media Studies at Pacific University and Whitman College. Her undergraduate studies focused on various phenomena taking place on YouTube, including the influx of long-form nostalgic video essays and YouTuber-centered fanbases. She is especially interested in the various ways in which the same information can be conveyed to different results, and how communities develop through the use of the internet.

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Evan Chronis

Graduate Affiliate, CEMI

MFA Student, Radio-Television-Film

Evan Chronis is a screenwriter and novelist with a knack for combining words into sometimes funny and occasionally profound sentences. He is equally interested in deeply felt stories that strive to reveal something about the world and the people in it and hyper-entertaining, dialogue-driven genre flicks. Highfalutin or otherwise, he strives to incorporate humor into everything he writes. He digs reading, running, and noodling about on the guitar. He likes tacos.

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