Monday, April 11, 2011
Loving mother with sights on new career in multi-media journalism
By Raul Garcia Jr.
A native of Santiago, Chile, Katherine Droguett, remembers listening to popular music from the United States of America to learn English. At 16-years-old Katherine reunited with her mother and father in Virginia in hope for a better life.
“I knew there was more opportunity here than there was in my country. I’ve been here almost twenty years and I would never go back. This is my second country and I love it,” said Droguett.
Today you can find her living a happy life at home with her three daughters that she loves spending time with on the weekends with her husband. She enjoys taking them to their youth programs, watching educational programs with them and baking in the kitchen. But she is not your ordinary soccer mom. Droguett is studing to become a new media content developer spcialist. And since enrolling at Full Sail University she has found the opportunity to broaden her skills and horizons in hope of leaving a legacy for children and being a role model to them.
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| Katherine with her family. |
Droguett has come a long way from Chile. She completed her Bachelors in 2004 with a Computer Science degree and is not shy to express her happiness on working on her Maters in New Media Journalism. She finished high school in 1996, got married, had her first daughter, entered college and started working.
“It was really challenging having a full time job, two kids and going to school was a little overwhelming,” Droguett said. “After entering the job market she decided to come back home and work raising her children and help her husband began his business in the construction industry.”
She said they were able to make things work and were always together as a family and it has made them very strong but when the housing market tumbled the family business took a big hit.
She said what really kept them going was their strength and motivation for the family and Droguett would turn to the workforce to help with the finances during the recession. In the network marketing industry she would find her calling as a graphic designer specializing on social networking.
“I did have some success and I really learned how to run my own business. And it was where I became fascinated with the art of graphic design,” Droguett said.
She then wanted to become more familiar and proficient in graphic design and began to look for avenues to feed her newfound inspiration of work on graphics and web design.
“I found this advertisement about Full Sail University and I was very attracted to the advertisement because it was very professional and eye catching,” Droguett said. “I really liked the program that they had to offer and the program was perfect for my lifestyle. Because I have three kids and it is something that I really wanted to accomplish.”
She wants to work as a new media content developer specialist and be able to help people grow their business with her new journalism and multi media skills.
“Your going to have to have more skills to be successful and this program offers that and I’m very happy,” Droguett said. “I think that I would be fine after completing the program at Full Sail working with a politician or anyone out there in the communications field.”
# posted by Raul Garcia Jr. @ 9:36 PM 
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