AMWA is a national association that requires one payment to be a member for the entire undergraduate career. Directly after joining the association, I created an account on their website (www.amwa-doc.org) and joined their private Facebook group which occasionally made posts of events that were held by the national association, different petitions for women’s rights and aid that could be electronically signed, and recent news articles that published advances of women in the medical field.

I joined this club in my first semester of college (Autumn 2018), and have contributed to the t-shirt fundraiser and attended all of the meetings that I could (many meetings conflicted with the speaker panels for The Future Physicians of Tomorrow club). I also joined a group from this club when one of the Clean Up Columbus volunteering events (more details can be found under volunteering) were opened. Other benefits of this club include introductions to different volunteering opportunities—one of which was Moms2Be.

Speakers from Moms2Be came to one of the meetings and informed us of the opportunity and the existence of the Moms2Be Association. Moms2Be is an association that was created to educated pregnant women about pre-natal and post-natal care (infant mortality rate is high in Ohio). Volunteers would babysit the children while the mothers attend free classes that teach how to take care of children and how to take care of themselves while they were pregnant. As this volunteering opportunity was a long-term commitment, the executive board members suggested for all of us to go as a group to the closest Moms2Be location and volunteer once before any of us decided that we commit to volunteering for Moms2Be.