Shea Formanes is an undergraduate student at the University of Washington – Seattle Campus. She is working towards a double degree in Landscape Architecture and English (Creative Writing). Currently, Shea is a Digital Media Writer for Leading Women of Tomorrow, where she pens monthly op-ed pieces about women in public office, as well as topics such as the gender wage gap and equal economic representation for women. When she isn’t writing, Shea works as an Editorial Assistant at the Wales Literary Agency, where she critiques manuscripts, and as a Student Assistant at UW CoMotion, where she uses her copywriting skills to head up multiple projects to improve audience engagement and write content for posters, websites, and reports. In the future, Shea hopes to pursue freelance journalism, as well as a career in filmmaking and screenwriting.