Today I worked on the invitation for CLT’s college expo. I received feedback from the coordinator’s contact and I completed the rough draft and submitted it to my coordinator. I included pertinent information such as the agency’s mission, the purpose of the event, the time and location, and RSVP information. I also designed the invitation and used the agency’s logo to spruce up the invitation. I submitted the rough to the coordinator for revisions.…
Summary of Activities Outside of our meeting on Sunday October 8th, I spent an hour looking up registration letters online, just to see what other examples are available. I was amazed at how many different registration styles there were. I coordinated with my classmates on clip art for the registration letter and downloaded the sample my professor uploaded for us. I completed the letter and I believe it’s perfect. I can’t wait for everyone to see it also.…
During the following summer the soon to be Peer Mentors has a trip to go up to Julian, CA so I went. To my surprise, I was one of the few guys there so it was an awkward experience. During the trip we did bonding activities to get to know everyone and become one big family. We also learned different strategies to help fellow peers and learned to also deal with my awkwardness significantly.…
The event I decided to attend was the presentation “Dreamers after DACA” by Maria Belen Sisa. The main reason I decided to attend this presentation was mainly due to the fact that the DACA situation is something I am actively involved in and hearing stories of individuals under this program gives me insight as to what is currently happening to them after the program was ended. Sisa also discussed ways to get involved and take action to demand a clean Dream Act which was another factor as to why I attended. This event relates to the course’s theme because it discussed the issue of ethnicity and ethnic groups in education and employment.…
A friend invited me to see the Brazilian dance troupe, Grupo Corpo, perform on the Stanford campus this afternoon. Another example of amazing bodies doing amazing things. Supreme poetry in motion. I am so grateful for all these wonderful opportunities I have to see so much theatre. I've died and gone to…
A recap on my life: Spring Semester has been very busy, but it has been such a great Wolf ride-this week in particular. So many things have happened recently in my life that I just want to thank everyone who has taken the journey with me! The big highlights of the week include: · Honored as ODK's Top Ten Freshman (Only ten students of the entire Freshman class at UMD recieve this honor) · Selected as an Images Tour Guide! I will now have the opportunity to show perspective students why Maryland is the right fit for them and why I love it so much · Attended Tea with Title IX- as a member of the Title IX Board Student Adivsory Board, I was invited to attend Tea with Title IX where I was able to discuss different policy improvements regarding Title IX on campus (huge shout out to NAN and Taylor for putting on a great event)…
She was more than happy to let me join the group. To my surprise, there was not too many people that attended the meeting that day. There was a total of seven people including me at the beginning of the meeting. The leader introduced me as a student to the rest of the individuals in the meeting. The group while quiet at first welcomed me as part of the group.…
Looking back a week later, the Young Democrats High School Leadership Academy was nowhere near what I imagined. And I mean that in a good way. I had an idea going into the conference of what I expected out of it: marketing, social media branding, touring, and networking. And yet, in hindsight, YDA HSLA was all of that, but immensely more.…
The college campus offered me a variety of activities to collaborate with my peers. Although I lived with many students, the…
I attended a meeting with the Latino Medical student Association on the topic of DACA and how it can affect medical school hopefuls. My friend who is a member of the organization informed me about the meeting and with what was going on in the news regarding the future of DACA and its recipients I thought it would be important to go. l learned that they are very big on community and connecting their members with different opportunities as well as fostering a comfortable environment that allows their members to freely speak about important topics. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing about the experiences of students from different backgrounds that were all Dreamers. I'd be lying if I said I didn't get emotional hearing about the many times medical…
Underserved communities are the group of people who has been treated unequally because they have insufficient funds to cover their expenses, they have medical problems, or they have been discriminated against. According to the American Journal of Managed Care, underserved community include, “. . . [E]conomically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minorities, the uninsured, low-income children, the elderly, the homeless, those with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and those with other chronic health conditions, including severe mental illness.” This means underserved communities are the people who are desperate for help but do not have the source to get appropriate help. Throughout my life I have encountered with underserved population a lot…
An example of an outreach effort that I conducted to an unreached group at the University of Maine was one focused on Greek Life students. When arriving at UMaine it came to my attention that the IV chapter there had been trying to reach the Greek students on campus but hadnt been very sucessful. This is a group of students who I have a special heart for and knew that the mutual nenifitial relationship they could have with the IV chapter. I first had a conversation with the IV staff Jon Kennerson about how I would be speaking at our regions Greek getaway later in the semester and I would love to try to get some Greek students from Maine to be able to attend. We talked about ideas I had about reaching the students, a goal for how many I would like to ideally brign to the…
There are many people in that are creative and then there's people that aren’t so creative. I can consider myself a creative person. I found out this about me when i was younger in elementary school. I use my creative side basically in all my classes. I’m mostly creative in ASB because we have to be creative.…
"Enlightenment is not a change into something better or more, but a simple recognition or who we truly are" (youhavechosentoremember.com). Today, realization shapes my true identity. In the beginning, I did not know who I was and what I could accomplish, always thinking it was "good enough". If I would have been less ignorant, I would realize that "good enough" blocked my excellency. Significant events in my past altered my morals and shaped the habits I hold today.…
As the summer of my junior year came around the corner, I was set to volunteer for a whole week at Camp Invention. Camp Invention is a camp in which children are taught to think innovatively through their inventions. I was a Leadership Intern. Unsure about what my duties were, I soon realized that my job was to lead a group of kids through their everyday activities and to help them with anything they needed; this included lots of encouragement. After a day of being a Leadership Intern, I was hooked.…