I am Samiyyah Lanier. I grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago in a predominantly creative household. I am earning a bachelor's degree at Columbia College Chicago, majoring in film and television and minoring in photography. Instead of settling down and concentrating on one field in the industry my curiosity led me to a need to learn other positions in the field while attending. I studied producing, directing, cinematography, editing, and currently studying coloring films. I came into film school with one position in mind then discovered that there’s so much more out there in the industry that I would want to do. I guess you can say I’m a one woman team. My professional goal for my first year after college is to freelance being a P.A for different types of media for television. My professional goal for my fifth year after college is to climb my way up to a producing position for a television program.