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The sustainable children’s clothing brand, Chickadee, Daeya Shealy designed for her capstone project was exhibited in April at RIT City Art Space in downtown Rochester.
Daeya Shealy ’21 (Industrial Design) has long held an affinity for Germany. She grew up learning the country’s native language and about its culture in great depth.
Her knowledge can be traced back to fourth grade in her native Atlanta, where she started taking German classes. Not long after, she began attending Concordia Language Villages’ German cultural immersion program, continuing every summer through high school as first a camper and then a counselor.
Both experiences led to Shealy becoming highly proficient in German. It’s a skill that will be especially beneficial as she prepares for her first professional maneuver after graduating this spring from RIT’s Industrial Design program. She earned a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) fellowship to study and work as