On November 14, I attended a seminar about food insecurity in Ohio, and I also learned about a program called The LunchBox Ohio. The LunchBox Ohio is a summer food program that provides nutritious lunches over the summer to children who have high food insecurity in Columbus. They especially provide in areas that are considered a food desert. I really enjoyed that one of their main focuses is providing food that is nutritious because it is very important for developing children to have all of the right nutrients and vitamins. I really enjoyed hearing about this non-profit, and I hope to become involved with a similar organization in the future. After hearing about The LunchBox Ohio, we assembled snack bags so that our pen pals had food over Thanksgiving break because some of our pen pals may be food insecure.
Month: November 2019
Empowering Girls to Combat Violence
During my junior and senior year of high school I was my class leader of Women Empowering Women, a
school club that hosted events to empower women through education and discussion on gender relations and issues in the modern world. On March 18th, we held an event to educate our student body on the issue of sexual assault. We held presentations from our local police department, our guidance department, campus ministries department, and Women Helping Women, an organization in Cincinnati that works in crisis intervention to help survivors of sexual assault and on local college campuses. Our goal of the event was to educate and inform our school community on the prevalence of sexual assault, provide resources for survivors, and present ways to help a friend who has been sexually assaulted.
Original Inquiry
During the summer of 2019, I participated in leukemia research in the Kumar Lab in the Bone Marrow Transplant Department of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. I worked as a laboratory aid and performed experiments for several different publications relating to mixed lineage leukemia and Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Through attending weekly floor meetings, I was able to learn about cancer research happening across the department, and I really enjoyed being able to learn so much about my future field while gaining experience in my field. I hope to be able to continue my work in the Kumar Lab next summer.