Author: Dagny Zenovia

  • My Plan For 2015

      I hope you are having a happy new year as we cross mid-January. Mine has been going pretty well. Every new year I reflect on what I planned to do the year before, what I did achieve that year, and what I will do the next year. Last year I was determined to make…

  • New chapter. New challenge.

    The beginning of a new month can be exciting, frustrating, inspiring, and encouraging (not exactly in that order, but you get the idea). This fall I started a new chapter in my life as I pursue another adventure to get closer to achieving my purpose in life. With every new chapter, I try to add…

  • My HERstory with Michael Jackson & Cirque du Soleil

    As promised, I am sharing the clip I submitted to audition for Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson Immortal show. In 2010, news started spreading that Cirque du Soleil and MJs Estate were planning a collaboration unlike any other. While reading up on this, I found the casting call for dancers for the show. From what…

  • Story: “Changing Directions: Community-based programs redirect the school-to-prison pipeline”

    I wrote an article about Austin, Tx, the school-to-prison pipeline, and community-based programs. It was published today in The Austin Chronicle! I started working on this story in January of 2013, while I was planning my master’s report. My research continued in the fall of 2013, when I took a graduate seminar, “The School to…

  • Too Much Ivory. Too Little Coverage.

    Originally written December 2013 The resurgence of poaching in Africa needs to be re-introduced to the West to portray the magnitude of the threat in having a world without elephants or rhinos. Unfortunately, there are not many journalists covering this important story. The Western media maintains a distant narrative on this issue. Focusing on numbers…

  • Stop The Pipeline

    “Stop The Pipeline” is a music video, public service announcement, educational tool, and news supplement attempting to fill the gap between those affected by the school-to-prison pipeline and those who should be paying attention to the pipeline. The purpose of my thesis, a.k.a. masters report, is to focus on the school-to-prison pipeline and the need…

  • Get To Know Me

    “You don’t know me…you don’t know my life…you don’t know what milk I put in my cereal!” Decided to share a few things about myself with you thanks to a tag from my fellow youtuber Doyin. Choosing the questions was fun. If there is anything else you would like to know about me, let me…

  • Bro & Sis Cover: They Don’t Care About Us

    It’s “my brother and me” again! My brother learned how to play “They Don’t Care About Us” by Michael Jackson on the piano about a year ago as a surprise for me. We both agreed to do some sort of collaboration with it, but never got around to it. Two weeks ago I went home…

  • My Brother and Me

    My Brother and Me

    It’s “my brother and me!” Not the show silly…even better… My brother and I decided to do a sibling TAG video. We chose a few questions to ask about each other. It turns out I know more about him then he knows about me. We are planning some more fun collaborations in the near future.…

  • Girl Power Remix

    I noticed this Girl Power TAG video chain on youtube and felt I needed to expand on it’s meaning. It started with Seventeen Magazine interviewing teen celebrities to share inspiration and confidence to their readers. I think it is a nice initiative and I wanted to contribute to the conversation. Here is my Girl Power…