Julie Freijat

Julie is a Student Innovation Staffer. Her work this semester is building a new program for community engagement in youth sports with Media in Color as a part of an Innovation Team partnership project.

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A screenshot of a webpage mockup for the Sun. There is a turquoise banner running horizontally across the top of the page, with navigation options for the website written in white, serif text on the left side. White social media buttons and a red button that read “Support Us” is on the right of the banner. Below the banner is a white space with the Sun’s logos. The left logo is in English and the right logo is in Spanish. A dark gray banner runs horizontally below the banners, with additional navigation options in white, serif text. The bottom half of the screenshot shows a photo of a girl’s soccer team. The players are wearing white and blue jerseys. There is a coach to the left of them and a coach to the right of them. The coaches are wearing black. Above the photo is the title of the page and the league for the team. It is titled “Tiger’s Soccer — 2023 Squad.” Below the photo to the left is a caption and a paragraph describing the team’s season. Below the photo to the right is the team’s schedule.
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