<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/magazine/winter-2011/how-artist-became-attorney.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>How an Artist Became an Attorney</title><excerpt>Majoring in art was a surprising choice for Melissa Rodriguez ’91, but she’s never been interested in doing the obvious thing.“Art clicked for me when I took a design class,” she says. “I didn’t have much background in it, and it was difficult and scary being out of my comfort zone. But the more I did it, the more I gravitated to art.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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