Liv Paggiarino is a third-year graduate student at the University of Missouri; she is currently writing a thesis to wrap up her Master's degree in Visual Editing and Management. She has worked as a staff photojournalist, photo editor and assistant director of photography at the Columbia Missourian, and a staff photographer at the Jefferson City News Tribune, but dabbles in other interests, including design and social media engagement. While not behind a camera or computer screen, she enjoys reading history books, looking for sea glass along the shores of her native Southern California, and playing the occasional nerdy game of Dungeons and Dragons.