About Sara

Sara Taylor grew up in the small town called Anson in rural Maine. She attended all of her k-12 education within the RSU 74 school district and graduated Carrabec High School as class Salutatorian, with an above 4.0 average. The class Valedictorian that year was Samantha Taylor, Sara’s identical twin sister. Sara was initially accepted to the University of Maine at Orono, and was awarded a full tuition scholarship called the Maine Top Scholar Award. Sara attended the University of Maine at Orono for Computer Engineering, but ultimately decided to rejoin her sister at The University of Maine at Farmington for a B.A. Interactive Media. Sara and Samantha graduated together from UMF with matching 4.0’s, overcoming many hardships and challenges together.

Sara enjoys art, music, video games, and computer science. She considers herself to be a feminist and a lifelong learner. Sara enjoys participating in community projects, such as UMF’s Community Garden and her history at The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Sara could see herself fulfilling a lot of roles in her future, including being a designer/media creator for the toy/game industry, a feminist artist working with a technological medium, a supporter of the nonprofit sector, or possibly even a singer.

EDUCATION

University of Maine Farmington
B.A. Interactive Media with a concentration in Visual Art (Graduated May 2021)
GPA: 4.0, Suma Cum Laude

EXPERIENCE

2022 – Communications Coordinator, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Farmington, Maine
● IT
● Web Design – www.cesmaine.com
● Social Media, Digital Outreach
● Graphic Design, Video Production
● Gift Store Retail & Register
● Customer Service

2021 – Garden Media Manager, University of Maine Farmington, Farmington, Maine
● Built garden’s web presence (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google Website)
● Filmed, edited, and posted various garden promotional videos
● Filmed social media segment featured on Good Morning America’s social media pages

2020 – 2021 Sodexo, Farmington, Maine
● Retail Store Cashier
● Stocked & Maintained Store Front
● Customer Service & Handled Grill Food Orders

EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS

2021 – “Unusual Articles” (UMF Senior Art Show), University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington Maine ( Sara designed the show card + created show web presence )

2021 – Elisa Tang, “These college students grew a garden to help fight food insecurity in their community”, Good Morning America, October 29, 2020

SPECIALIZED SKILLS

● Digital Video production including Adobe
Premiere, Adobe After Effects
● Digital Print production including Adobe
Illustrator, Procreate, Adobe Photoshop
● Digital Photography and editing including
Adobe Lightroom
● Coding Languages: Arduino, Processing,
C, Python, HTML, CSS, Javascript
● Figma, AdobeXD, WordPress, Google
Sites
● Microsoft Office + Google Drive suite tools
● Flexible and Fast Learner