Congratulations Chloe!
We happily share that our undergraduate researcher, Chloe Hunt, graduates from North Carolina State University (NCSU) in May of 2026. She will be graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in professional writing and rhetoric with minors in film and creative writing.
In the fall of 2024, Chloe started working for Crow under the supervision of Dr. Michelle McMullin after one of her professors, Belle Boggs, helped her discover the undergraduate researcher position that McMullin was offering.
Since joining Crow, Chloe has worked on various projects, such as blog posts and grant materials, while helping her fellow Crowbird and best friend, Adrienne Henson, and their mentor, McMullin, wherever she was needed. Specifically, Chloe, Adrienne, and McMullin worked together on the Wolfpack Women in Philanthropy grant where Chloe learned valuable grant writing skills, such as learning how to create a budget and tailor the language to potential funders. Chloe has also worked on many blog posts where she had to research, interview different people to showcase their ongoing work, and put it all together in her own writing voice for the Crow website.
Chloe’s blog posts:
- Dr. Shelley Staples takes Crow to Brazil
- Dr. Shelley Staples Travels to Washington Virtually
- CROW Undergrads’ First Time Eating Oysters (and Presenting)
- The Purdue Crowbirds Have A New Nest
Outside of Crow, Chloe attended the MAPACA symposium in Atlantic City on November 7th, 2024 where she presented on a paper that she wrote for ENGL 282, introduction to film. Her professor from this film class, Ph.D. student McKinley Keener, told Chloe that her paper would be a great conference submission. Since Chloe was unsure of the submission process, Keener helped her with it. Chloe says, “I got to write an abstract and edit my paper. Then we went to Atlantic City and I got to present my paper, and that was really cool.” Chloe also expressed that she never went to Atlantic City before this symposium, so presenting in a hotel/casino while being there for the first time was a unique experience. As a result, she was happy to be there to strengthen her presentation skills.
Her love for film does not stop there. Chloe has also been a part of the film club at NCSU where she got to watch movies and critically engage with films by discussing them with other club members. With this, during the fall semester of Chloe’s junior year, she became a part of the editorial team for a magazine at NCSU called Platform. It was originally a fashion magazine, but it branched out to discussing different topics, and they release one magazine per semester. Chloe writes content for both the magazine and blog posts that are published to the website. Everyone on the editorial team can write about what they want in the magazine after their ideas are approved by the magazine’s directors, so she chose to write about AI and film for her content sections. For blog posts, Chloe has free reign on topic selections as well, so she wrote about banned books in her most recent blog post for Platform’s website.
When Chloe is not working on Crow, school, or editorial work, you will likely find her reading, watching movies or women’s sports, baking, or cooking. Chloe particularly loves to eat anything with mushrooms in it, sharing that there is a place called Angus Barn in Durham where she had “an out of body experience” eating their sautéed button mushrooms.
Moreover, Chloe would like to thank McMullin for giving her the chance to work at Crow. McMullin always encouraged her not to lose her voice, but instead to mold it to the conventions of the writing task.
I think this also feeds into the idea of Crow, and why I think what we’re doing is so important, because every time I interview someone, it’s really about respecting and preserving the diversity of language. I think this is what drew me to Crow because we’re giving people tools to be better writers, not to tell them, “Oh this is unacceptable” or “This isn’t the right way to write” because we’re all different individuals and we all have something to say. So, to tell someone they are less worthy of writing because they don’t talk professionally is ridiculous. There’s so much intelligence in language and we just have to be willing to find it, and I think that’s really what Crow has nailed into me, and I am very thankful for that.
Chloe would also like to thank all of her professors at NCSU because, “every single person really sees something in you and it motivates you because you want to improve to get where these people see you.”
Lastly, Chloe plans to take a year after graduation to decide what she is specifically interested in doing when it comes to writing. She is also thinking about studying for the LSAT during this time because she is interested in law. If she does not decide to go this route, she plans to go to graduate school once the year is over instead.
The Crow team is excited to see what Chloe will accomplish in the next few chapters of her life!