Personal Accomplishment Report

I was born and raised in the same apartment complex my parents met over eighteen years ago. I am the oldest of four boys and the first in my family to go to college. Growing up my mother was very protective of me. She would not allow me outside of the apartment complex on my own like all of the other kids. My mother would tell me stories about gang members being at the local recreational center. My friends chuckled when I told them this. The rules and limitations she set were not an issue for me. I was very introverted and afraid of the world outside of the gates that surrounded our apartment complex. By the time I was in third grade, school started to get more challenging. However, my mother knew no English whatsoever so the days where she …show more content…
EDLC is on its second cohort of student-leaders and I was hired a few weeks into college as the Leadership Programs Specialist with the role of developing and overseeing EDLC and other student-driven projects. Being now on our second year EDLC has developed a strategic plan for the next three years. We have six goals total with at least five objectives each. One of the goals in our strategic plan is to develop service projects outside of the country. The Fulbright Wales Summer Institute though not a service project is still an experience that I would want to share with the students. During the our meetings, as well as in my college classes, we have been discussing American culture and Latino culture, politics as an organizational framework, the role of industry in Barrio Logan, and lastly about how we want to create change. Looking at the structure and lifestyle of another country provides an experience that enables us to look at our own structures more critically in order to identify areas of improvement. Personally speaking, I have only traveled to Mexico a couple of times. That is as much exposure to another country I have