About Me

My name is Alison Jordan Segel, and I am a student at the University of Southern California.  After attending high school at Harvard Westlake in Los Angeles, I went to the School of Education at Boston University.  After a semester, I decided that my interests could be best pursued on the West Coast, and I promptly transferred to the Rossier School of Education at USC.

I am very lucky to have returned to the West Coast because it gives me more opportunities to be with my family.  I am blessed to have grown up in a very close family, and although I do not live at home anymore, I can be found constantly at their house in Malibu. In addition to my parents, I have two older brothers, one of whom still lives in Los Angeles.

I have many passions in my life, and teaching is one of the most prominent.  I realized that I wanted to become a teacher in first grade.  I greatly admired my first grade teacher Mrs. Graham, and I mimicked everything that she did.  I started making lesson plans and homework assignments and forcing my mother and two brothers to complete them.  At such a young age, I thought that grading homework and teaching was a fun activity, and my parents knew that I would become a teacher one day.  In addition, I have seen the changes that need to be made in the education system.  Those changes will not happen on their own, but rather with the help and determination of informed educators.  I wish to help through action, and that is why I am in the Rossier School of Education, actively pursuing a degree in education.

In addition to teaching, I get great joy out of painting, reading, and writing.  I have taken art classes throughout my entire life, and my favorite medium is paint on canvas.  I enjoy writing creative nonfiction and poetry.  Some of my favorite books are As I Lay Dying, A Million Little Pieces, The Alchemist, The Secret Life of Bees, and the Five People you Meet in Heaven.

please direct comments or suggestions to segel@usc.edu