Read about what Pacifican alumna, Emily Peters, has accomplished throughout her writing career since her time writing for the paper.
Emily F. Peters is a two-time author and alumna of both The University of the Pacific and The Pacifican. Writing for the paper during her undergraduate career inspired Emily’s love for words and publication. She graduated in 2022 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and a minor in Graphic Design. Now, she has endeavored to share her story with the world, through not one, but two books. Published in 2019, Women Remaking Medicine answers the question, “How can women in medicine help fix our broken healthcare system?” Then in 2023, Emily published her second book, Artists Remaking Medicine, “a bold chronicle of medical humanities in action that inspires new thinking about what is possible when we embrace the paradox of both loving medicine and challenging its most toxic structures.” From recounting her college writing adventures to sharing her writing process, Emily gives The Pacifican an inside look at what it takes to blossom from a student into an accomplished author.
While attending UOP, Emily remembers looking up to her brother who worked at The Sacramento Bee as a reporter. She picked up hours at the paper as a stringer while being enrolled as a student. As her interest in journalism was piqued, she applied to be a part of The Pacifican staff. Fondly, Emily recalls being a part of the news team, working late into the night until the print deadlines were met. In addition to learning how to write “very, very quickly,” Emily also credits her time in the newsroom with teaching her how to “write clearly, concisely, with emotion.” Years later, after almost dying during childbirth due to an amniotic fluid embolism in 2016, Emily woke up in the intensive care unit feeling lucky to be alive. She was compelled to use her writing to do more to transform the healthcare system, and that she has…