The MAT@USC program was the only program that met all my criteria and, nearly five months into the program, it is exceeding my expectations!
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Melissa Pomponio
Greetings from a mile high in Colorado! My name is Mel and I’m enrolled in the MAT@USC program with the goal of becoming a high school English teacher. I am a native of the rural township of Brimfield, Ohio, where most of my family still lives. I received my undergraduate degree in journalism and English from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, and, upon graduation, became a reporter for my hometown newspaper in Kent. Looking for a little adventure in my life, I moved west to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where I worked at the newspaper there and met and married my husband of 14 years (we have a son, K.C, 12, and a daughter, Ava, 6). I also made a brief stop at the newspaper in Loveland, Colorado, before taking a presentation editor position at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. The Rocky fell victim to a poor economy and the downturn in newspaper readership and ceased publication on Feb. 27, 2009. As unemployed journalists are a dime a dozen these days, I chose to pursue something I’m equally passionate about : teaching.
