Hello! If you were looking for Hailey Wallis, you’ve found me! If you were also looking for someone who is goal-driven, ambitious, intuitive, and is a very hard worker; you’ve found her too!

I come from a small town in Southeastern Ohio where I learned social, academic, and life skills. We were a small rural community that was extremely tight knit. Everyone knew everyone, which isn’t always a good thing.  I have had many obstacles to overcome through my past, but I am happy to say that I am here to introduce myself to you today.

As this is my first year at OSU, I can tell you a little bit about the obstacles I faced and overcame in high school. Our class sizes were incredibly small as we had a graduating class size of only 53. My class was extremely competitive in our class ranking and we worked hard for our ranks. I graduated Valedictorian of our 2015 class at South Gallia High School and was also awarded the Delma R. Roush Scholarship through OSU which has been an amazing opportunity that I am very grateful for as it will allow me to further my education towards my Animal Biosciences degree and help me strengthen my foundation for my intentions of attending the Ohio State University College of Veterinarian Medicine in the future.

I love to be outdoors whenever I can and spent a lot of my time at home on a farm. I am incredibly concerned with animal conservation and I have been since a young age. When I found my love for the Giant Panda, I also found a passion for environmental conservation. The environmental branch didn’t hit me until I read something so striking. It said, “The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years. We [humans] have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago. In that time, we have destroyed 50% of the world’s forests. This isn’t sustainable.” As a 12-year-old reading that, you can only imagine how shocked I was and how terrified I was that this number would continue to rise. Since then, I have advocated to help save our Earth within my home and within my old High School. I was lucky enough to start up a recycling system amongst both places. Though it may be small, I am still trying to do what I can. This is me in a nutshell, I hope I have the opportunity to get to know you, too!