Cameron Gray (he/they)

+1 (315) 454-7580 · grayfcameron@gmail.com

I am a current senior at Hamilton College in upstate New York pursuing a liberal arts degree with a concentration in music composition and minors in digital arts and French & Francophone studies. Although I specialize in multimedia composition and performance, my skills, interdisciplinary studies, and interests range across psychosocial disciplines, higher education, environmental studies, and social justice and equity.

Education & Research Experience

Teaching Assistant

Hamilton College, Biology 222: Human Anatomy

Tutored students with weekly TA office hours, exam review sessions, and scheduled individual meetings and assisted in proctoring exams and practicals, grading tests and assignments, and leading lab dissections.

Spring 2022, Spring 2023

Student Researcher

Hamilton College, Biology Department: Chang Lab

Collaborated with Dr. Wei-Jen Chang on an individual project focused on RNA interference in Tetrahymena thermophila through feeding of self-lysing bacteria using an in-house designed plasmid vector.

January 2021 - August 2022

Volunteer Researcher

American School for the Deaf, Museum & Archives

Conducted research for the school's museum and archives on projects for the museum's community event planning.

September 2020 - August 2021

Outreach Volunteer

QuestBridge, Inc.

Provided college admissions advice to students on an applicant call roster as a Hamilton College Quest Scholar and presented remotely on QuestBridge's programs to high school juniors and seniors at two home educators' associations.

August 2020 - May 2021

Middle School Volunteer Tutor

Clinton Central Middle School

Tutored two middle school students in multiple subjects with weekly one-on-one remote sessions hosted by Hamilton College's COOP community outreach organization.

August - December 2020

Education

Hamilton College

Bachelor of Arts
Concentration in Music Composition and Minors in Digital Arts and French & Francophone Studies

GPA: 3.30

August 2020 - May 2024

Hamilton in France Program

Institutions attended: L'Institut Catholique, L'Université de Paris Cité, La Schola Cantorum
August 2022 - December 2022

Emmanuel Home School

Institutions attended: Hilger Higher Learning, Dalton State College

Unweighted GPA: 4.00

August 2016 - May 2020

Skills

  • Procreate
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Photography
  • HTML, CSS, Swift & VBA
  • Audacity
  • Pro Tools
  • Logic Pro
  • MaxMSP
  • RefWorks & Zotero

Software Platform Proficiencies
  • Google Suite
  • Microsoft Office
  • Zoom
  • Skype

Languages
  • French: fluent
  • American Sign Language: advanced proficiency

Distinctions

  • Emerson Grant Recipient, Hamilton College: Musical Composition, "Taunts in the Wind" - April 2023
  • Raphael Lemkin Writing Prize Recipient, Hamilton College - May 2022
  • Dean's List, Hamilton College - May 2022
  • Conductor's Award Recipient, Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Youth Orchestras - May 2020
  • Dean's List, Dalton State College - May 2020
  • Class Valedictorian, Chattanooga Southeast Tennessee Home Educators' Association - May 2020
  • Best Sophomore-Level Essayist, Dalton State College Exemplar - April 2020
  • Selected Essayist, Dalton State College Exemplar - April 2019

Portfolio

Below is a sample of my creative works and research essays.

"Interface," 2024: a piece for vibraphone and orchestra

"Madness," 2024: a sonic essay on what it means to 'go mad'

"Sepulchre in the Cellar," 2023: an electronic composition

"The End?", 2023: animation in anticipation of May

"Adventure into Arcade-Land," 2023: programmatic electronic composition

"Vagues en les nuages" (waves in the clouds), 2022: programmatic acoustic composition for two vibraphones & string quartet

"Sociolect as Accessibility: Vernacular Exclusivity in Online Fan-Based Communities," 2022: a research essay focused on textual accessibility in written works from online fan-based communities.

"Eugenics in the Machine: Social Choice Can Lead to Eugenic Result," 2022: a research essay focused on eugenic results caused by the cumulative choices made by prospective parent(s) following results of unrestricted early genetic testing, primarily NIPT and PGT.

"Tales Retold," 2023: a play in one act

CV

Below are downloadable copies of my CV, Music Resume, and Lab Resume.