Mindfulmedia artist Drew Stone shares career wisdom through “College to Confidence”
Drew Stone is a mindfulmedia artist bent towards creativity, design, organizational leadership, games, and forward-thinking culture.
Drew holds a Certificate of Excellence in Filmmaking from Seattle Film institute. He completed undergraduate degrees in Media & Communication Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior (鈥�14) at UW Bothell and a Master of Communication in Communities and Networks (鈥�16) at UW Seattle. He is a Project Manager for the Augmented Reality tool built for Microsoft HoloLens, DisastARcons, and helped lead his team to win the 鈥淗umanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief鈥� category at the 2016 Seattle Virtual Reality Hackathon. Drew is a board member for Blue Earth Alliance, a nonprofit that provides assistance to documentary photographers, and co-founder and co-CEO of YantraWare, which develops play-practice technology tools for mindfulness.
Drew channels his talents in collaboration, innovation, and iterative design towards purposeful and well-crafted engagements and projects, and loves bringing people together to create novel and useful concepts from ideas into reality. For updates on his endeavors, follow Drew on Twitter @stonedrew.
Drew visited Alka Kurian鈥檚 Portfolio Capstone course to share his career journey. View Drew鈥檚 presentation 鈥�,鈥� for sage wisdom on charting your course. Here Drew discusses the importance of a cultural match with employers, why it鈥檚 okay to quit, and the empowerment of trusting your gut.