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Carrie Kneitel Highlight
The only way to build confidence is to keep doing it and then readjusting yourself if something doesn’t work. The daily practice of putting yourself out there is seeing what worked and what didn’t work, and then remembering that.
About Carrie
- I was raised in an old-fashioned way—my parents didn’t put a lot of pressure on me to figure out what I was going to do for a career because it was assumed I would just get married and have kids.
- After graduating from high school, I didn’t have any guidance on what to do next, so I took a gap year to figure it out.
- Attended community college at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California—I was originally a nutrition major, but in my second year I changed my major to fine arts.
- I was introduced to graphic design after taking a design and composition class and I realized that was the subject that I was truly interested in.
- Transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where I earned my bachelor’s degree in graphic design and computer graphics.
- After graduating from UCLA, I decided to take a web design course at the ArtCenter College of Design and get involved in the technological side of design.
- I worked as a web designer for various companies before getting the opportunity to become a co-founder and art director for a fashion apparel company.
- I now run my own brand design and marketing company, in addition to being the creative arts director for the Museum of Tolerance at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
