Ever since I was younger, I have always wanter to better and expand my education. I graduated from a community college at 18 concurrently as from my high school with both: my Associates’ of Arts degree and my High School Diploma; earning my CPR and First Aid certifications along the way.

Now that I am a student at The Ohio State University, I have continued my education, taking a variety of Social Work and Psychology classes to continue my goal of earning my dual Bachelors’ degrees in both Social Work and Psychology, to be able to go into foster care or psychology to be able to help, advocate, and care for those who may not have someone who can help them do so for themselves, within four years and continue on this journey to ear my Masters’ of Social Work just one year later and then hopefully continue on with developmental or clinical psychology and psychological research.

My education is a very long journey that is extremely important to me, to continue to meet this goal and better myself and my education, I plan to continue to take the classes that go along with my major and interests, continue to seek and hopefully be a part of various research opportunities, and seek internships and placements that will help not only me but those whom I am here for and here to help with.

Throughout High School, I was a very involved individual and, in a way, made it a goal to volunteer and be a service to my community. I started off with being a LinkCrew leader at the Early College High School program I was in, later on, eventually joining in and helping out at the 2022 Ohio Special Olympics, hosted in Elyria, Ohio, which led me to be more involved in my community. Volunteering at a local hospital (University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center) one to two days a week, from four to six hours at a time.

To me being involved and being of service means being able to help out whenever, wherever it is needed. Whether it be helping set up before events, cleaning up after events, helping out and guiding children in the special olympics, or even just helping out in a hospital.

This is something that I carry along with me to college, more recently being involved in events that help cancer patients by making them goody bags, crocheting breast cancer ribbons with my fellow ACES, making journals and bookmarks with BSA on campus, and volunteering with the Gladden Community House to raise money for people in need in surrounding cities and suburbs, and throughout Ohio.