Hello! My name is Bran Sullivan, and I’m an Eco-Digital Storyteller Mentor for the 2024-2025 NRCA program. I’m currently a senior at UConn with a major in Digital Media & Design. During my Environmental Storytelling class, working with high school students and helping them express their project ideas as actionable steps, and demonstrating how we achieved this with our own projects, was a very rewarding and fulfilling experience from my time at this university. I worked as a gymnastics and parkour instructor throughout late high school and early college, and seeing kids grow and accomplish their goals has always resonated with me.

 

Beyond that, I have worked with UCTV (UConn Student Television) in their Advertising department to create promotional videos for other clubs, organizations, and events on campus, as well as writing and directing a short film with UCTV in their Film department my freshman year. I love the art of storytelling, both as a consumer of books, movies, TV shows and video games, as well as a creator, mostly of short films, stories, and poems.

 

I joined the EDS program because I have a passion and interest in the environment and wildlife, as well as helping to mentor people. My mom is a dog trainer, so I’ve always been around and had an appreciation for animals, and going on walks in the woods with our pups is a formative childhood memory for me. Overall, I am very appreciative of my time at UConn and this position, and I hope to use the lessons learned here in my future after graduation!

 

UCTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheUCTVchannel14/videos

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