As an Endowed Creative Arts Fellow with the Duquesne University Honors College, I am currently working on an album of original music with accompanying poetry, prose, and multimedia design on the subject of “Pilgrimage.” My inspiration for the project began with a pilgrimage to Krakow, Poland for World Youth Day 2016, as well as a semester abroad in Rome, Italy, where I was able to take a personal pilgrimage to the place where my grandparents were born and raised, San Lucido, Cosenza in Southern Italy.