Every time you read an article online you exercise your skills as a reader. When you respond to that article through Twitter or Facebook you use your developed writing skills to convey thought and insight. While some young adults have little interest in reading a novel, let alone writing one, Cambray Provo hoped to change some students attitudes toward writing in 2010.

"I was a student at Seattle University in 2010. As a student, I was an active writer. Between 2010 and 2011, I was a staff writer for Seattle University's Spectator and felt it was important to encourage high school students to embrace writing for their future," says Cambray Provo. So she became an assistant teacher as a part of Writers in the Schools for Seattle Arts and Lectures in 2010.

"Working with writer Nicole Hardy, I worked at Ballard High School to teach writing," recalls Cambray Provo. She primarily focused on poetry but encouraged her students to perform inspiration based writing exercises. "In addition to teaching writing, I worked for the Writers in the Schools at the Seattle Art Museum. Using the Picasso art exhibition, I had high school students write based on his art pieces," states Cambray Provo.

Cambray Provo knows drawing on real life experiences and effectively and creatively transferring those experiences into written words is skill that easily transfers into the professional world. "I used my writing skills to break into communications after college. When you work in communications, you have to not only be able to monitor the conversation happening in all types of media," says Cambray Provo.

With a passion for language, Cambray Provo understands information can be helpful but also damaging. "It is important to use language to express concepts clearly, concisely and effectively," she says.

Cambray Provo is confident her career as a communications professional will grow. "My experience as a student journalist definitely prepared me for this field of work. That is why I believe it is important for high school students to understand how helpful perfecting their writing may be," says Cambray Provo.