Arts
Dara Samuels is a 2011 graduate from SAGU. She was Professor Price's first Digital Media Arts workstudy early in his teaching career. He hired Dara as a freshman after meeting her the year before on a SAGU missions trip to her hometown of Monterrey, Mexico.She is currently employed as the Production Manager at Christ Fellowship Church in West Palm Beach, Florida. The church has 15 physical campuses and her job at the Royal Palm campus job requires her to oversee a handful of volunteers to ensure all live sanctuary production needs are met as well as streaming services.Dara's first decade out of school in the digital media industry has seen her travel from Waxahachie, Texas to Tulsa, Oklahoma and then back to the Lone Star state. In Tulsa, she volunteered at her church as a production manager and video editor. That experience opened the door for her to be hired in the youth/student department as the Live Production Director at Westover Hills Assembly of God Church in San Antonio for several years before re-locating to Florida in 2019. As a student at SAGU, Dara was initially intimidated by digital technology. Not anymore. Instead, since graduation she's mastered concepts of signal flow and live multi-camera operations (mostly New Tek's Tricaster systems). Additionally, Dara trains and empowers students and children as young as 12 years old to serve as crew members who run camera, audio and even live switching. She's become a teacher at heart and loves to pass on knowledge to others.For more information about the places where Dara has worked and currently working visit: https://gochristfellowship.com/https://westoverhills.church/