One experience that shaped my character as a person was my part-time job in high school. I worked as tour guide in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Being a tour guide pushes a person to be open minded and curious about other people. I remember having a tour group from New York City, and we had a great conversation when we were comparing our respective Chinatowns. The conversation had me continuously think of questions and reply to their question with an answer to the best of my ability.…
Unpacking: Black in America For the cultural event I attended a seminar at the African American resource center at Cal State Fullerton. The seminar focused on “Unpacking: Black in America” gathered African American students from CSUF to speak upon how they felt as a minority in this country. They also shared out their personal stories and experiences on being African American. Gwendolyn Alexis is a faculty liaison for the African American Resource Center who facilitated the event. Professor Alexis is an advocate for African American and minorities she brings knowledge and support for these communities.…
My obnoxious yellow posterboard read “We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.” The time was Donald Trump’s inauguration and everyone there was chosen to fight for everyone’s rights as American citizens. I held it high above a plethora of pink yarn woven into cat ears. The hat, a sticker on my head, and a logo on my shirt announced my ideals. More than 500,000 chanted in Washington and 5 million worldwide, and all together we sounded like one voice.…
My whole life has been a sort of bubble, with the same people attending the same community college and staying in the same town. When I came across Sarah Lawrence my sophomore year of high school, something immediately clicked. The college was something unlike any other school I had researched. For a girl from California, New York feels like a safe heaven from an endless cycle of the same rural town. Sarah Lawrence has a great public policy program, and from a young age, I have had strong opinions about Chicano identity and activism.…
There was never a dull moment due to the wide range of diversity, talent, and personalities of students. I made amazing lifelong friends that appreciated my presence, ideas, and personality. The entire student body participated in deep discussions over a wide range of topics including beliefs, injustice, and conflicts in our society. Everyone treated other’s contributions with respect and consideration of their ideas and views. Each discussion and activity opened my eyes to recognize meaningful things that society normally overlooked.…
Attending the SCUSA conference changed my outlook on my future. I know what I want to do in the future, but the path remains unclear. Given my interactions with students, both who attend West Point, and those outside of it resulted in an uptick in confidence that I am on the right track in regards for my future. I chose to do the North America table and spoke on grievances affecting Black Americans and White Working Class. Heavily participating in the numerous roundtable discussions let me know that not only my input was impactful but sometimes necessary.…
I think I am going to have my presentation speech be titled Everyday Leadership. I am still playing with names. I am not going to lie, I did not start research still yesterday on account of it being break and I was doing research for graduate schools which turned out to be a lot time consuming then I thought (cannot wait to show you my list when I get back). Since it is impossible to cover the Civil Rights and Disability Rights movement in a mere 30 minutes, I decided to focus my talk on key players in each movement, I would focus more on the Disability Rights movement because much of the Civil Rights leaders have had so much written about them and talked about such as Dr. King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, etc. My reasoning for focusing on leaders…
I decided that I would take leadership roles throughout high school in order to help serve the less fortunate. KEY Club, a service and fundraising club, became my focus, and I travelled up the ranks to become the school’s external affairs manager and the service committee chair of the Eastern Canada District. As I introduced more extra-curricular activities into my life, organization became more important -- and I was shocked to see how much it helped me save…
I was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally named Michael King Jr, but later changed it to Martin. I am both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, I would like to believe I have a seismic impact on race relations in the United States. It all began in the 1950’s. Among many efforts, I headed to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.…
Tell me something, do you think you or anyone you know could change the world? The answer is YES! However, it does take a lot of hard work. Like Steve Jobs used to say before he passed away, “The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do” (Jobs, Steve). That’s exactly what Kimberly Bryant did!…
1. A.) Why are you interested in becoming a Social Justice Leader? B) Briefly describe some of your experience with service and justice work. This can include your work in the Bronx and Lincoln Center community, student leadership positions at Fordham, or other.…
My experience in COMM 2367 this semester was an important one for not only my educational career but for my life after the classroom. It helped me reconnect with the task of group work, helped me overcome my fear of public speaking, and much more that I will be discussing through this reflection paper. This communication class did not only help me complete a second writing course but also helped me learn how to use persuasion tactics in a writing and a speaking fashion. I have learned that persuasion is used in multiple different forms.…
Showboat: The Life Of Kobe Bryant By: Roland Lazenby Kobe Bryant/ the Black Mamba was very popular NBA basketball star. Kobe did not just get skills and trained from people, he already had it in his blood because his father Joe Bryant is also known as Jellybean Bryant. Joe perused his talent by going to Italy and playing basketball there. That is where their whole family lived for 7 years. Kobe learned how to speak Italian fluently and this was where he started playing basketball.…
I was fortunate enough to attend the 2016 H. W. Sumners Leadership Conference where I would have the opportunity to meet a unique pool of influential individuals. Most of my leadership experiences had come from group projects with students who I were familiar with, and the conference gave me the chance to become a team with strangers from across the United States and Mexico. I was not aware of how much I was actually going to get out of the conference. Through the elective workshops, I learned much more about my leadership style and who I could become as a leader. Through the speakers, I learned about the power of creating a vision and pursuing with unyielding faith.…
My project began as a way for me to give back to the community in a way in which I could use my strengths to inspire and teach. Some of the reasons why I began my journey here at J. K. Lee were to become more assertive, responsible, disciplined, and self-confident. These were qualities that held me back from reaching my full potential. I wanted to incorporate these skills into my project and challenge myself in new and different directions.…