About Aliya
Experience
Aliya Bora is a multi-disciplinary creative producer and designer with a decade of media experience. She considers herself a storyteller at heart. Her background in video production, graphic design and broadcast journalism give her all the tools to tell great stories. Aliya is fully skilled the Adobe Suite’s design and video production software (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, & Premiere Pro) and writes, shoots and edits her own content.
Audience
Aliya loves working with soulpreneurs, conscious creatives, and small businesses and on their brand voice, story and social content. Additionally, she loves to travel the world and capture her travels on her blog (feel free to check out some of her videos here).
Values
Aliya believes both the voice and the visuals matter when it comes to developing content. Her background allows her to flex her skillset across design and video production and incorporate them into her work. She believes there are left-brained (words, facts, analysis) and right brained facets (visuals, expression, emotional intelligence) that come into play when developing content, and loves playing in both worlds.
Services
As a creative producer & designer, Aliya is fully skilled in social media video production, graphic design and digital media design. Head to her services page if you are interested in working with her. She is available to do custom work or consult on any of the following: producing video content for social media or websites, branding & content strategy sessions.
Aliya also loves to travel and paints watercolors inspired by her travels – check them out in her shop and read about all the design inspo from these places on her blog.
Background
Aliya started her creative media career writing and producing at FOX 5 San Diego (KSWB-TV). Later, she was one of four people in the country selected for an exclusive fellowship with NBC News in New York City where she worked on the CNBC shows Squawk Alley and Squawk on the Street. After this, she traveled the world as a Creative Content Producer, line-producing events and digital media in Europe, Asia, and Australia. She’s also worked extensively on integrated marketing campaigns, flexing her design and video skillset across projects on the QuickBooks Global Brand Marketing team at Intuit, and with small business and solopreneur clients.
Education & Backstory
Aliya holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin, and and a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University. Additionally, she hold certificates from San Diego City College’s Graphic Design and Radio Television Film programs.
Her career in media started after she suddenly lost her healthcare sales job. She had trouble finding another job, and decided to go back to school to study two things she was always passionate about – design & broadcast journalism. She enrolled at San Diego City College thinking she would pick the program she liked the best. However, she loved both programs so much she ended up completing both degrees. As she studied design and media, she began to see how much they were interrealted.
Fun Facts & Favorite Things
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Color: Teal (She has an entire Pinterest board devoted to this color)
Fruit: Pomegranate
Tea: Silk Dragon from David’s Tea
Stone: Chrysocolla (basically…all the teal ones)
Scents: Lavender & Rose
Flower: Tulips (Roses & Peonies a close second)
Animals: Dolphins & Peacocks
Literary Character: Dobby from the Harry Potter series
TV Show: Queer Eye on Netflix
Textiles: Natural fibers – silk & wool
Season: Tie between Spring (for the flowers) and Fall (for all the pumpkin-flavored stuff)
Favorite City to Visit: Paris!