For as long as I can remember, I have advocated for people with disabilities, whether in high school as part of Unified Basketball, at MSU Denver with the Access Center’s Ambassador Program or as an officer of Delta Alpha Pi Honor Society. I also have a passion to travel and had been to forty-seven states and one country by the time I was fifteen. Unfortunately, I am still at forty-seven states but have now been to eleven countries as of last summer. Long term, I want to get a management position where I am able to relocate across the globe and be able to spend time in as many places as possible. I love going to see movies with friends and in my free time, you will usually find me at a theater watching a movie and catching up with friends. The rest of my free time is spent reading books for fun. This goes all the way back to my childhood when I spent ten hours a day on the road each summer for six weeks traveling across the country with my family. I would always join the local library’s summer reading program where you read eight hours and got a free book. Every year, I ended up reading at least fifty hours and actually closer to a …show more content…
This is a very distinguished award that is given annually to one student, faculty or staff member and community partner with prior recipients like Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb,… I am also currently the President of Alpha Alpha Chapter, Delta Alpha Pi Honor Society and President of National Society of Minorities in Hospitality at MSU Denver. As president of Delta Alpha Pi, I have continued my work on advocating and promoting for people with disabilities, planning new and recurring events like the Induction Ceremony where we induct semiannually fifty new members into the chapter. This year, I also had to work on adapting the chapter to new rules and guidelines by the national board so that our membership could succeed and prosper. I have also had the privilege of being the President of the National Society of Minorities chapter at MSU Denver as well. This has also had its share of problems and has definitely devoted a great deal of my time and energy. I have learned a lot about the hospitality industry in general and how to start something from the ground up as I was forced to do when the entire clubs members graduated last May. Since then I have been focused on recruiting new members into the organization, and delegating tasks to other members so I don’t become too