Autumn 2016
- Interned at the Ohio Statehouse in the Senate Minority Caucus
- Conducted policy research focused on health issues in the state
- Explored a potential career in state government and the roles different staff members play
- Started serving as the High School Outreach Co-Chair for OSU Global Health Initiative
- Helped to organize and plan educational workshops on public health and the role that it plays locally, nationally, and globally
- Worked as an Office Assistant in the Houston and Houck Residence Halls
- Began working as a Resident Advisor in Morrison Tower in the International House Learning Community
- Participated in the Second-Year Transformational Experience Program (STEP)
- Accepted into the Canadian Parliamentary Internship program
- Regularly volunteered at the Mid-Ohio Foodbank as on the Columbus Have a Hart Day City Captains
- Awarded the John Glenn College of Public Affairs 2016 Alumni Scholarship
- Recognized on the College of Public Health Dean’s List
- Achieved the goal of a 4.0 semester GPA
Spring 2017
- Attended Population Connection’s Capitol Hill Days for the second time
- Led an 80 constituent lobbying meeting with Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio’s office
- Participated in a three day conference focused on international and domestic family planning topics
- Lobbied my elected officials in Congress for three key international family planning policy changes
- Helped to create an ongoing volunteer partnership between the Student Life International House Learning Community and the Mid-Ohio Foodbank
- Received my DICE (Diversity, Inclusion, and Civic Engagement) certification through the OSU Multiccultural Center
- Joined the Gamma Rho Lambda Sorority
- Volunteered with Stonewall Columbus
- Helped to organize a fundraiser for the Trevor Project
- Elected to be a Autumn 2017 New Member Educator for Gamma Rho Lambda
- Inducted into Chimes Junior Honorary
- Volunteered at the Columbus Boys and Girls Club with OSU Global Health Initiative
- Continued to regularly volunteer at the Mid-Ohio Foodbank
- Recognized on the College of Public Health Dean’s List