Mattea Gygi is currently a student at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and serves on the LDSPMA Student Chapter on campus.
What are some names of the books or other media you have created?
I currently write for TechBuzz news, a Utah Tech online newspaper. I write about emerging and growing tech companies in Utah.
What inspired you to become a creator of media?
I love words and the way they can be used to teach others. Words have helped me expand my view of the world and I hope to create content that also expands minds and encourages learning.
What has been the highlight of your career so far?
My career has been insanely short as I am still in college, but a highlight of my career was creating, planning, and writing a series of articles about Polynesian entrepreneurs and founders in Utah tech.
What was the best advice you’ve ever been given in your creative journey?
Simple is elegant.
What advice do you have for someone just starting out in your field?
Writing is hard, so I applaud you. I am not very experienced, but I have learned that there are many people in this field HAPPY to mentor and help you along the way—so find them and let them take you far.
What keeps you inspired in your daily creative work?
I love words, as I said earlier, and working with words and trying to arrange them in the best possible outcome makes me happy and is very satisfying to me.
What would you like others to know about you or your creative process?
I love food and have found food to be a great motivator and defeater of writer’s block.
In what ways do you feel you have been able to be a voice for good in your creative pursuits?
I love that my publication focuses on unbiased, true news. We write to inform, not to persuade, and I think that kind of writing is really needed in the tech space. If anything, we are positive in our portrayal of businesses, but overall we always tell the truth.