Three advanced placement classes, one honors class, and show choir during zero period gives junior Annabelle Warren a busy schedule.
Because of her lack of spare time, she recently left Ventura High School’s varsity soccer team and is instead focusing on her passion for art.
“I’m pretty good at [art], but I don’t think it was some natural-born talent,” Warren said. “All of the desire to be an artist was there, but the skill was acquired when I got into high school and took art classes with Mr. Frazier.”
Warren credited Foothill’s art teacher, Justin Frazier, with teaching her everything she has learned about art, and for helping her develop her interest in it.
“From early on her freshman year, I knew she was going to be a main component of the art room. She stood out with her talent,” Frazier said. “She’ll take an assignment and keep working on it way past the due date; expanding ideas, making it more her own and more exciting.”
Adding to her list of activities, Warren has also become involved with VUSD’s all-district high school show choir, Company. She and around 40 other students throughout the district meet at Ventura High School early every morning for their rehearsals with director Heidi House.
“Annabelle has committed herself to Company, heart and soul,” House said. “She is incredibly dedicated, knows her music and choreography, and is always prepared. She is respectful and kind to other students and to me, the teacher.”
Her strong feminist beliefs are what Warren claims set her apart from her peers.
“The definition of feminism is the belief in social and political equality between men and women, so in my eyes, everyone should be feminists, just as no one should be racist or homophobic,” Warren said. “When people hear that word, it is almost like a dirty word to them. It holds a false stereotype and a strange taboo, but in reality, it’s just who I am.”
Warren has looked past her life in high school, and has set goals for where she hopes to end up.
“In ten years, I hope to see myself in Hollywood, working in the film industry. Maybe not as an actress, but I would love to work behind the camera,” Warren said.
Warren’s friend, junior Marnie Vaughan, acknowledged her individuality.
“Annabelle has a certain passion for things that I’ve never seen in anyone else. She knows what she wants, and she is willing to put in the effort to get it,” said Vaughan. “She is determined, and loyal, and an amazing best friend.”
