RISE

This year I was given the opportunity to help facilitate a conference called RISE which was focused around the 7-habits of highly effective people. There was a main facilitator who taught the rest of us exactly what the 7-habits were and how we can apply them to our everyday lives to become better leaders and…

Special Events Co-Director

After serving as the Vice President of Program Board my junior year, I was thankful to be given the opportunity to be Special Event Co-Director with Skyler Conran during my first semester of senior year. I was excited to take on this position for a few reasons, at this point I was the only returning…

THRIFT, BUT MAKE IT FASHION

One of the course for the Event Management minors is an Event Production class which is a Service Learning course. We start with a zero-base budget and are asked to make up a new event from scratch. Any profits that are made are expected to be donated to a charity of the groups choosing. For…

LDR302

For LDR302 we were asked to pick a leadership position to get field experience within leadership. I chose to grow in a position as a CVFC that I already had to then be the intern of the association of MASC/MAHS. As apart of the experience we were asked to write three SMART goals that we…

COM461

Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to take this course in person with the rest of my co-hort due to spending the semester abroad. Upon returning home I was able to take this course online as an asynchronous class, but to be honest it was not the same without my cohort being there to…

CGL145L

CGL145 was a huge launching point for me. I really have never learned as much in a course as I was able to in this discussion based class. The class alternated between lecture and discussion style class formats. One day a week we were placed in dialogue groups to have deeper discussions on readings, articles,…

a letter during a pandemic

History is the greatest learning tool we have. The more we can learn from mistakes of generations before us, the better off we can be. I hope that we can factually inform the incoming generations of all we did wrong (and right) before, and during the Covid-19 pandemic to better equip them for hardship or…

Junior Year

I think a lot of my greatest lessons of this year came out of the opportunities I was afforded. I found myself more as a professional, and as a leader than I ever have before through my involvements, and the people I was surrounded by. Below is a list of the most impactful to me…

Leadership Launch 2018

After spending about a week completely processing everything rushing through my brain I’ve decided the best way to completely compile my thoughts on Special Olympic’s Leadership Launch this year would be to compile a little blog post. Throwing it back to my junior year in high school, I was introduced to a program formerly known…

Welcome home, Gabby!

Updated: It is crazy to reflect on the  process from first getting a mentor, to then the excitement of getting a mentee, to then a year of serving as a mentor to another LAS student. Gabby and I had such common high school experience, and she was entering college on such a similar path as…