Peer AdvisingJournalism has a peer advising program. Each year, several seniors with a broad array of experience in coursework, campus media, internships, study abroad and the UMass experience make themselves available to their fellow students as well as inquiring high school and transfer students. Here are the Peer Advisors for Spring 2012.
 Kaitlyn Bigica |
Kaitlyn is a junior journalism major and IT minor. She became a staff writer at the Collegian during her first year and continues to write articles for the Arts and Living section each semester. The first semester of her junior year was spent in Barcelona, where she studied the history of Spain, architecture and Spanish. Throughout the school year she works as a Social Media Assistant at Garvey Communications where she optimizes clients' Facebook and Twitter accounts. She has been interning at CNBC during summer 2011, where she is working closely with the editorial and broadcast team. |
 Julie Varney |
Julie is a senior journalism student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is currently a managing editor at AmherstWire.com, a student-run multimedia news organization, and a staff member on the weekly news program "UMass This Week" at the student-run cable TV station, UVC-TV 19. |
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Julie is a senior journalism major minoring in Education. She is interested in both arts and travel writing. In Fall 2009, she studied abroad in London, where she interned for Duliwch OnView, a community arts website based in the Dulwich Picture Gallery. For her internship, she covered various gallery openings and exhibits and interviewed artists and writers. In spring 2011, Julie traveled to Sicily with the travel writing and photography course offered in the Journalism department. |
 Matt McCarron |
Matt McCarron is a senior journalism major with a concentration in film studies. Matt transferred to UMass in the fall of 2010 after spending his first two years of college at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Mass. Matt is the Managing Editor of both Germanautonews.com, his own website dedicated to the coverage of high-end German automobiles and also The Amherst Wire. |
 TJ Houpes |
TJ is a senior journalism major. |
