Hello! My name is Annie Stanger and I am from Kirkland, Washington. I am a Music Education major with a concentration in choral music. I have been singing for as long as I can remember, specifically in my parish, but I was only introduced to choral music during my freshman year of at Holy Names Academy in Seattle. I really hope that my music degree will lead me to a position as a high school choral director because I would love to make choral music making my career.
I am the personified definition of a cradled Catholic. My mom has been the Children and Family Life Minister at my parish at home for the past 16 years, so I did much of my growing up at church. My faith has been strengthened throughout my life, especially because of the community and the youth programs that I been part of within my parish and have participated in. I love my faith and the Church and I am proud to be Catholic.
There are four social media platforms that I contribute to: Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram. I try to present myself authentically, but with a bit more polish, as I am sure many of my peers do as well, but I find that I can be reluctant and apprehensive to post things because I am afraid that the things I share might not be as warmly accepted as I would hope. I try not to post too much about my solo singing because I do not want my audience, the majority of whom are my peers, to think that I am big headed or egotistical. However, I am quick to share things about the choirs I am in because I am so proud and so blessed to be part of music-making communities like those. I find that the depth of my faith is not illustrated to its extent within my various media with the exception of the Instagram picture I posted in celebration of my Confirmation at the end of my junior year. I have many friends who are devoutly Christian and they frequently post inspiring Bible passages or meaningful moments in their every day lives when God was good to them or even revealed Himself to them, but I seem to lack in that area of expression. My close friends know that my faith is much deeper than in comes across in my digital persona. I am very grateful for the opportunity that social media gives us to connect with those who we wouldn't otherwise connect with or even see or know about in our daily lives, and I am appreciative of the tools that social media provides us with to be present in the world in a way that nothing else has ever done before.
I am the personified definition of a cradled Catholic. My mom has been the Children and Family Life Minister at my parish at home for the past 16 years, so I did much of my growing up at church. My faith has been strengthened throughout my life, especially because of the community and the youth programs that I been part of within my parish and have participated in. I love my faith and the Church and I am proud to be Catholic.
There are four social media platforms that I contribute to: Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram. I try to present myself authentically, but with a bit more polish, as I am sure many of my peers do as well, but I find that I can be reluctant and apprehensive to post things because I am afraid that the things I share might not be as warmly accepted as I would hope. I try not to post too much about my solo singing because I do not want my audience, the majority of whom are my peers, to think that I am big headed or egotistical. However, I am quick to share things about the choirs I am in because I am so proud and so blessed to be part of music-making communities like those. I find that the depth of my faith is not illustrated to its extent within my various media with the exception of the Instagram picture I posted in celebration of my Confirmation at the end of my junior year. I have many friends who are devoutly Christian and they frequently post inspiring Bible passages or meaningful moments in their every day lives when God was good to them or even revealed Himself to them, but I seem to lack in that area of expression. My close friends know that my faith is much deeper than in comes across in my digital persona. I am very grateful for the opportunity that social media gives us to connect with those who we wouldn't otherwise connect with or even see or know about in our daily lives, and I am appreciative of the tools that social media provides us with to be present in the world in a way that nothing else has ever done before.