MediaStorm is excited to welcome Alessandra Villaamil to our team as our Fall 2013 development intern.

Alessandra Villaamil is an interaction designer and journalist. She holds a Master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and a Bachelor of Science in Visual Journalism and French Literature from the University of Miami. Alessandra uses emerging technology to leverage multimedia and create new platforms to engage with content.

As a journalist, she has documented green technology and sustainability in the Czech Republic, the plight of undocumented Haitian migrant women in the Dominican Republic and intellectually disabled athletes at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Greece and the Special Olympics Global Congress in Morocco.

Her work has brought her to the SXSW Interactive Awards (2013), Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition (2013), the NYC Resistor Interactive Show (2012), the United Nations Association Film Festival (2010) and the Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival (2010).