I am a rising senior in high school at Oxford Academy in Cypress, California. I am the Community Outreach Director at Our Climate Story, a non-profit dedicated to sharing the human impact of climate change, where I organize workshops, partnerships, and media. I also coordinate a Take Back the Tap campaign on my campus with the Food and Water Watch, where I utilize skills such as canvassing, event planning, and power mapping to construct a campaign. I also have experience with grant writing as part of this initiative. Additionally, I am the founding Editor-in-Chief of Cocoon Zine, an Asian-American feminist zine that focuses on youth and intersectionality. I fully believe that my skills and experience in community outreach and organizing would
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I already have some involvement in activism, but experience in an organization that specializes in consulting for social changemakers would help me decide if I would like to pursue social change professionally and provide me with the ability to establish connections that would make it easier for me to do so. Additionally, I hope to learn skills I can use to facilitate social change in my own personal projects. Through practice in outreach and research as part of my internship duties, I hope to learn how to more effectively target my campaigns and duties. This internship would also provide me with access to individuals who I can learn from to bolster my own projects. Most of all, though, an internship at Velvet Frame would mean another opportunity to encourage social changemakers and activists to do good in the world, leading to a more just and sustainable …show more content…
Here, I will speak more about the personal significance of my work. My work with non-profit Our Climate Story and Take Back the Tap exemplify my strong passion for sustainability and the environment. They also show a specific context of moving beyond traditional apocalyptic warming claims; by focusing on the human side of climate change, Our Climate Story centers the real-world impacts and emphasizes environmental justice. Furthermore, Take Back the Tap focuses on individual action, dispelling the myth that climate change is an insurmountable force that only governments can
I already have some involvement in activism, but experience in an organization that specializes in consulting for social changemakers would help me decide if I would like to pursue social change professionally and provide me with the ability to establish connections that would make it easier for me to do so. Additionally, I hope to learn skills I can use to facilitate social change in my own personal projects. Through practice in outreach and research as part of my internship duties, I hope to learn how to more effectively target my campaigns and duties. This internship would also provide me with access to individuals who I can learn from to bolster my own projects. Most of all, though, an internship at Velvet Frame would mean another opportunity to encourage social changemakers and activists to do good in the world, leading to a more just and sustainable …show more content…
Here, I will speak more about the personal significance of my work. My work with non-profit Our Climate Story and Take Back the Tap exemplify my strong passion for sustainability and the environment. They also show a specific context of moving beyond traditional apocalyptic warming claims; by focusing on the human side of climate change, Our Climate Story centers the real-world impacts and emphasizes environmental justice. Furthermore, Take Back the Tap focuses on individual action, dispelling the myth that climate change is an insurmountable force that only governments can