Career Goals: My Career Path To Urban Development

“If you’re comfortable, you’re not growing.” This was the response that I gave, when asked to provide my favorite quote for college graduation. I decided to live by this, when moving from Arkansas to Pennsylvania to attend college. It was a major risk considering that I knew no one, but I craved a different atmosphere. My goal of being the first college graduate in my family led me to make such risk-taking decision. Being exposed to different cultures, natural environments, and challenging disciplines and research in my undergraduate studies, has driven me to narrow my career path to urban development with an emphasis in environmental sustainability and community development. Originally from Sacramento, California, I was fortunate enough …show more content…
This April, I am facilitating an Earth Day service learning, which will teach students about environmental issues, as well as, introduce them to community engagement and volunteerism through a neighborhood clean up event. Given these points, my main goal in life is to combine everything that I learned from researching and traveling as a tool to improve underserved communities and developing cities, in the United States. Knowing that the dynamics of cities are changing, I want to be responsible for developing ideas and initiatives that would allow us to adapt to impacts caused by population influx and climate change. It would be an honor to learn in a program that encourages the self reflection of individual actions, assesses the impacts of our actions based on a national and global scale, and exposes students to a diverse set of perceptions and tools that will allow them to be an aid of change. If I was given the opportunity to earn a masters degree in Urban Development from the GSPIA program, I am confident that I will be able to bring to the table an open mind, unconventional approaches and ideas, and the willingness be cultivated into a future