Cassandra Lee Morris: Difference between revisions

Morris was born on April 19, 1982<ref name="birthday">{{Cite tweet|number=1384204331696627714|user=SoCassandra|title=Birthday energy 🥳🎉🥳🎉|author=Cassandra Lee Morris|date=April 19, 2021|access-date=July 30, 2021}}</ref><ref name="watoday"/><!-- 33 as of June 8, 2015 --> in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in [[Trumbull, Connecticut|Trumbull]].<ref name="patch"/> She grew up in an [[Italian-American]] family.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75k_mGIrhGs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/75k_mGIrhGs |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=Ask me ANYTHING ft. My Cats|via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref> She recalls her first-ever voice-over role as recording for an [[English as a Second Language]] learning cassette when she was 12. Her parents would occasionally pull her out of school to take her to auditions in New York City.<ref name="watoday">{{Cite web |url=http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/your-perth/supanova-anime-star-cassandra-morris-on-skipping-school-for-cartoons-20150608-ghjba7.html |title=Supanova: Anime star Cassandra Morris on skipping school for cartoons |last=Barnes |first=Candice |date=June 8, 2015 |website=[[WAtoday]] |publisher=[[Fairfax Digital]] |location=[[Perth, Australia]] |access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref> When she was in middle school at around age 14, she was involved in an [[educational video]] series called ''Real World Science'' where she served as the on-screen program host as well as provide narration for the science videos being presented. She described her experience as good practice reading scripts, and noted that the producers at Mazzarella Media kept calling her back to do more videos, so she continued working on those through high school and college,<ref name="real world science">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H820QXB9ng0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428080740/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H820QXB9ng0&gl=US&hl=en |archive-date=2020-04-28 |url-status=dead|title=I Was The Host of Real World Science |date=2016-10-09 |last=Morris |first=Cassandra Lee |access-date=2017-01-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref> where she would later help the company in production and script writing for other educational videos.<ref name="linkedin"/><ref name="audiofile profile"/> She got involved in journalism when she wrote for the local newspaper ''The Trumbull Times'' where she covered high school sports.<ref name="patch2">{{Cite web |url=http://patch.com/users/cassandra-morris-3 |title=Patch User Profile for Cassandra Morris |last=Morris |first=Cassandra |website=[[Patch.com]] |date=February 15, 2011 |location=[[Montrose, California]] |access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref> She graduated in 2004 from [[New York University]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in Journalism and Mass Communications.<ref name="patch2"/><ref name="voices.com"/> In New York, she wrote for ''[[US Weekly]]'' magazine, ''[[New York Press]]'', ''[[The Aquarian]]'' and ''[[Metro New York]]''.<ref name="patch"/><ref name="patch2"/> She also worked as an associate producer and blogger on ''[[Cool in Your Code]]'', a local television show that covered a different New York City zip code every episode.<ref name="patch2"/> In 2010, she moved to the Los Angeles area, wrote for [[Patch.com]],<ref name="patch">{{Cite web |url=http://patch.com/users/cassandra-morris |title=Patch User Profile for Cassandra Morris |last=Morris |first=Cassandra |website=[[Patch.com]] |location=[[Sierra Madre, California]] |access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref><ref name="patch2"/> served as a blog writer and editor in the Prom and Formal Dances at [[About.com]],<ref name="about.com">{{Cite web |url=http://prom.about.com/bio/Cassandra-Morris-81005.htm |title=About Style &ndash; Proms & Formal Dances &ndash; About Cassandra Morris |website=[[About.com]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129072641/http://prom.about.com/bio/Cassandra-Morris-81005.htm |archive-date=January 29, 2012 |url-status=live |access-date=January 12, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and wrote blog articles for [[David's Bridal]].<!-- <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.davidsbridal.com/ |title=David's Bridal |publisher=DavidsBridal.com |access-date=July 14, 2012}}</ref> --><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.davidsbridal.com/blog/tag/cassandra-morris/ |title=Cassandra Morris Archives |website=David's Bridal Blog |publisher=[[David's Bridal]] |access-date=January 12, 2017}}</ref>