Jacklyn Kerames –– A & E Editor

For Jackie Kerames, the Inklings report on the Westport Youth Film Festival was much more than just an article; it was an opportunity.

She learned to use Photoshop when creating a custom title for the article and utilized her artistic eye to choose snapshots from a music video to display alongside the text. The experience was so rewarding that Kerames applied for the position of A&E Editor so that she could continue working on layouts and graphic design.

Though she joined the Inklings staff last year as a writer covering a wide range of topics, Kerames found her niche with the paper as an A&E Editor. She likes that her section requires more images and creativity than others in the paper because it allows her to play around with lots of different page designs and fonts. Kerames, who is an avid dancer and enjoys listening to music in her free time, also finds A&E articles to be the most in line with her own interests.

While she acknowledges the challenges that come with A&E, such as finding good images and balancing a design aesthetic with the integrity of the articles, she is able to overcome them by using her sharp eye for arranging photos and Photoshop skills to create visually intriguing pages.

These skills are exactly why Kerames is so well suited for her position because, as she explains, “When it comes to the A&E section, the pictures can often tell the story as much as the words do.”