I love TRaC! It was definitely a formative experience for me. I’ve always loved music, but I was never a musician. Thankfully, TRaC provided the creative outlet for me to explore my love for the arts. TRaC gave me the skills and experience to become the Arts editor at my high school newspaper, and to become a critic for All About Jazz-New York (now The New York Jazz Record).
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After high school, I went on to Swarthmore College, where I majored in computer science. As a Swattie, I studied abroad in Buenos Aires and Hong Kong, volunteered in Thailand and Cambodia, and interned at Infosys, one of the largest tech firms in India. Always a traveler, I am now exploring (read: eating my way through) my new home on the West Coast.
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I graduated this past May, and moved to San Francisco a month ago to join Deal Décor as their Marketing Manager. Deal Décor is disrupting the $80B furniture industry by harnessing the power of group-buying and eliminating the middleman. We’re your one-stop-shop for beautiful, high-quality furniture at affordable prices. Check us out at www.dealdecor.com! We’re also on Facebook (www.facebook.com/dealdecor) and Pinterest (www.pinterest.com/dealdecor). 
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~Ivana
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This blog post is part of an ongoing series featuring High 5 and TRaC Alumni. If you’re an alumn and you’d like to participate, email a 200 – 500 word write up about your life after High 5 (and a large picture!) to TRAC@high5tix.org. The blog posts should generally follow this format: What arts were you into in high school? What has your life been like after TRaC/High5? Where are you now? What are you up to? What are your goals? Lessons learned? Funny stories? Feel free to self-promote and drop hyperlinks to your websites, current projects, school, Tumblr page, favorite Kickstarter project, whatever! 
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