Aspiring law student Amaya Aten is a major in James Madison’s Comparative Cultures and Politics, and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities with a focus in Language and Culture, as well as part of the Arts Living-Learning Community. She uses her complimentary majors to study how language affects the way people interact, and how that applies to policy theory and how laws are written.
Being part of the Living-Learning Community, she benefits from opportunities to actively apply her creativity to her academic experience. This year she worked as an undergraduate student research assistant, curating rare comedy records with Dr. David McCarthy to develop a “Party Records and the Birth of Black Entertainment” exhibition. Amaya believes that community is foundational to all social movements. This is something she found to be true through her research, witnessing in her own community the power of art and its ability to be a catalyst for social change.
At Michigan State University, we know that creative inquiry and expression are integral to advancing knowledge, the cornerstone of our mission. Spartans illustrate every day the varied ways that the arts are an essential part of the MSU experience.
