Prewitt's life full of snow, adventure

By Lauren Goodman
Daily Forty-Niner

Life is never boring for Cal State Long Beach art photography major Jennifer Prewitt.

Prewitt, a Laguna Beach native, was president of the CSULB snowboard racing team and a member of the Delta Gamma sorority from '95 to '97. She traveled in Europe during the summer of 1997 and studied Spanish in Spain. After returning from Spain, she decided that instead of returning to Long Beach she would move to Mammoth Mountain to return to her true love, snowboarding.

"I dropped out of school in Mammoth because of El Niño," Prewitt said. "I got a pass and snowboarded everyday. After the season I missed the beach so much so I moved to Catalina and lived on the Isthmus."

Prewitt worked in a restaurant on the Isthmus in Catalina Island all summer. She also worked in Avalon for Catalina Ocean Rafting where she sold rafting trips to tourists, and would commute back and forth from the two places.

"People used to ask me the stupidest questions when I worked in Catalina like, ëDoes water go all the way around this Island?' or the most common one was ëDo you take U.S. currency?'" she said.

Every summer since, she has lived on Catalina Island from June to the beginning of October.

" It's awesome, I've spent three summers there," Prewitt said. "It's like survival of the fittest out there."

In the 1999-2000 semester, Prewitt returned to CSULB at the end of her two-year educational leave. After commuting from Catalina to Long Beach in the beginning of the fall semester, Prewitt and her boyfriend moved to Belmont Shore in October. However, she said, that does not mean she is ready to settle down.

"Right after we take our finals we are moving back to Mammoth for the season," she said. " I like to travel a lot, I like to move a lot. I want to get into travel photography whether it's calendars or posters. It's a way to sell your work commercially and still be a freelance photographer and not be struggling in a gallery."

Prewitt is already doing photography work and getting her work published commercially. Her mother, who works for the Orange County Philharmonic, writes articles for magazines and Prewitt's work accompanies them, such as in the upcoming issue of California Homes.

She is also focusing on a company she and two other women have started up called GlowGirl, a revolution in women's snowboarding. They just launched a Web site that features clothing, cheap snowboarding trips and new equipment. Every month they will feature a new mountain.

"I really hope that this company picks up, I really want to work for a snowboard company," Prewitt said.

In the future she wants to settle down in either Southern California, anywhere in Europe, or maybe Australia.

"I want the whole thing, to get married, have two kids and that white picket fence," she said.

Lauren Goodman/Daily Forty-Niner

Jennifer Prewitt

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