09/03/2026
“They helped me see that it is doable even if you’re from a small town in South Dakota. It’s doable and that really gave me the confidence that I hadn’t seen in myself before.”
Since her time at USF, Emily Magera '20 has worked on EMMY and Academy Award-winning TV shows, earned her master’s degree and still returns to USF each spring to choreograph the spring musical.
Yet no matter where life has taken her or how far away she has lived, she still credits the professors at USF, and what she learned from their experiences, for laying the foundation that helped her dream bigger.
