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Junior Janelle Dempsey recalls always having a passion for travel and language. She loves the idea of being fully immersed in another culture and has a dream to live somewhere outside of the U.S. someday.

Dempsey was able to finally fulfill this passion this past year when she had opportunities to travel abroad on a service immersion trip to the Dominican Republic, and again a few months later when she traveled to Italy to study abroad for a month.

Choosing Rockhurst was an easy decision for her; having a brother come to Rockhurst and an aunt, Mary Haskins, Ph.D., professor of biology, teach at Rockhurst, she was already familiar with the school before she stepped foot on campus as a student.

鈥淚鈥檝e basically grown up on this campus, but it wasn鈥檛 until I was in high school that I realized it was a University, or that it was higher education,鈥� Dempsey said, 鈥淢y brother, David Dempsey, was here, my aunt was here and obviously I was on campus a lot growing up so it was just very familiar.鈥�

Coming to college, Dempsey knew that she would travel abroad at some point, but she thought her first time abroad would be to study abroad. She credits her aunt as the motivation for traveling for a service immersion trip with Rockhurst as her first overseas trip.

鈥淲hen I was in high school I was studying Spanish, and I think that was the first time my aunt had gone on a service immersion trip as a companion,鈥� Dempsey said. 鈥淐oming into Rockhurst I was like, 鈥榟ow cool would it be if I went on a service immersion trip as a student and she went as a companion?鈥� Which is what happened. I got to go with her, and I think what drew me to the trip was the family aspect.鈥�

About two months following the service trip, Dempsey took another opportunity to travel. This time to teach English in Carpi, Italy. Although she had never traveled outside of the country before, these two experiences showcased two very different cultures and helped shape her worldly perspective.

鈥淏oth times, I lived with host families, but in the Dominican Republic it was different because they were of a lower socioeconomic status and they didn鈥檛 have indoor plumbing or basic things we take for granted here,鈥� Dempsey said. 鈥淲hen I went to Italy, I鈥檝e never studied Italian, so I wasn鈥檛 able to necessarily communicate in Italian as well as I could in Spanish.鈥�

Visiting places outside of the U.S. gave Dempsey a fresh and new outlook on the world.

鈥淚鈥檓 not just thinking, 鈥榳ell everyone outside of the United States has less material items and less privileges than I do.鈥� I鈥檓 also seeing that there are countries that have just as many opportunities as I do, just in different ways and they鈥檙e structured differently,鈥� Dempsey said. 鈥淚t really helps to balance my perspective of the world. It鈥檚 realizing in any country there are people who have more and less, but we鈥檙e all human. We all share that in common.鈥�

Dempsey began using her artistic abilities to document the places she鈥檚 been and figured out a way she could share her art with others. As a self-taught calligraphist and brush-letterer, Dempsey decided she would express her travels through something she had become so passionate about: language.

鈥淚 think the first time I did this is when I went to California in high school for a national convention,鈥� Dempsey said. 鈥淚 was like, 鈥榳e鈥檙e going to go to the beach鈥�. What other opportunity am I ever going to have to use the beach as a background for my artwork?鈥� That was the first time I did artwork in a specific location to document traveling in a way. That was a catalyst.鈥�

Dempsey shares her art on her , which became a challenge for her when she decided that she wanted to figure out other ways to document her life by way of art.

鈥淚 made a commitment to myself that if I was going to keep my Instagram account, it was not going to be about myself, but it was going to be about who I am and how I express myself through my art, and it鈥檚 going to be a means of sharing that with the world,鈥� Dempsey said.

When she鈥檚 in another country, her artwork takes on the language of whatever country she鈥檚 in at the time.

鈥淲hen I go somewhere, I try to do all of my artwork in that language of the country. So, even though I didn鈥檛 know Italian, it forced me to learn Italian,鈥� Dempsey said.

Dempsey uses her Instagram account to not only document her travels and challenge herself as an artist, but she also uses the platform to make a larger statement on social media and humanity.

鈥淥ver the years, I can see how it鈥檚 challenged me. I can鈥檛 control what I look like, but I can control who I am on the inside,鈥� Dempsey said. 鈥淭here鈥檚 just so much more that you can share with the world than just what you look like, because you鈥檙e so much more than what you look like.鈥�

She hopes to continue traveling the world, and offers this advice to others considering:

鈥淒on鈥檛 be a tourist. Be a traveler,鈥� Dempsey said. 鈥淥ne of the things I鈥檝e developed through this philosophy is don鈥檛 travel to just see the world, travel to meet the world.鈥�