In addition to nurturing the Homework Hotline program, I hope to assist your strategic vision to empower our community with sustainable, participatory engagement. You have been working alongside community partners to enact lasting change and promote internal development, and I have witnessed the impact of such empowering model. For example, when tutoring, I did not serve as an editor; instead, I helped identify students’ problems, provide them with optional solutions, and refer them to educational resources. As a result, they become independent, self-mobilizing lifelong learners. Quoted a Mudder’s word: “we teach the community to fish.” If afforded this position, I will not only help students make meaningful connections between in-class and
