Miss Chevas D. Samuels is a Broadcast Journalism major at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and honors student at Barrett, The Honors College where she plans to graduate from ASU in the fall of 2012 with a combined BA/MA. Miss Samuels has studied abroad every summer since 2008, attending lectures in Prague, Budapest and Vienna.
While she is a broadcast major, her experiences reach far beyond into pre and post-production work for infomercials, theatre and entertainment based events. Through these occasions, she has developed skills in filming, editing, event production, documentary production and a natural approach to interviewing which has earned her more than a handful of of celebrity articles in her resume. Miss Samuels is a natural born writer, writing her first book at the age of 8 yrs. She has won several contests for excellence in screenplay and short story writing.
Miss Samuels interned with the Diversity Infusion Program in 2008 for Maricopa Community Colleges and in 2009 as a reporter for College Times Magazine, a popular media outlet that targets 18-29 year-olds in the region. This is where she discovered her extended interest in entertainment journalism. Her other experiences with media include a broadcast reporting gig with The Blaze 1330 AM and her current position as Senior Editor for MoeHeat Magazine, a new insider publication. In Spring 2010, Miss Samuels created several blog sites, an online entertainment magazine and a website dedicated to women in multimedia.
Miss Samuels has comprehension and training with Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Parallels Desktop, and Microsoft applications.
By following the simple guidelines of reputation, transparency, respect, and creativity, Miss Samuels stands by her freedom of unapologetic storytelling based on comprehensive investigating and a devotion to a strong work ethic.
Samuels participates in several campus organizations; The Association of Multicultural Journalists, The Radio-Television News Directors Association/Cronkite Chapter, The Black-African Coalition and the ASU-NAACP. Miss Samuels, also a Maroon & Gold Scholar. She credits these organizations with sharpening her leadership skills, increasing her involvement in community service and rasing awareness for diversity. Samuels says that these essentials will help her communicate effectively with and on behalf of the community and the underdog.