My Commitment to Service
Community Service Experience
During my time as Campus Life Event Coordinator for the LSU S.T.R.I.P.E.S. Program, I was able to implement multiple service projects to benefit the local Boys Hope/Girls Hope home. BHGH was brought in as a partner for the first time during my year on staff, and I was tasked with thinking of ways that S.T.R.I.P.E.S. could benefit them. Prior to students' arrival on campus, I sent out a call for used books for a book drive, which resulted in nearly 1000 books being collected. After the program, I organized two joint service projects that BHGH kids and STRIPES participants could do together. In the fall semester I lead a park clean-up in a neglected area of town, and in the spring semester I coordinated an easter egg hunt for the kids staffed by STRIPES participants.
Service is an aspect of my life that has been integral since high school. As I have matured in college, my capacity for service has grown as well. Through my leadership experience I have advanced from simply participating in service projects to planning and implementing them. As I continue my education through medical school and beyond, I will work to increase the impact that I can have. In medical school, I plan to enlist in the Army Health Profession Scholarship Program, which will allow me the opportunity to spend my early medical career providing aid to people around the world, while serving my country. Ultimately, my career goal is to increase access to healthcare for uninsured families at home, and organize annual medical mission trips to impoverished countries abroad.
Boys Hope/Girls Hope of Baton Rouge
Service Project Partnership Coordinator
March 2010 - April 2011
2010 - present
2010 - present
Louisiana Service and Leadership Community Projects
August 2008 - May 2013
Through LASAL, my classmates and I participated in the annual LSU Honors College service project, as well as several LASAL-specific projects. In my first year with LASAL, I served as a reading buddy for an elementary student behind her peers in literacy at a local public school. For one year, we would meet once a week to work on phonics and vocabulary. By the end of that year, she had moved up to books in her actual grade level.
Through Theta Xi Fraternity, I have participated in annual fundraising philanthropies to benefit Multiple Sclerosis patients, as well as worked on Habitat for Humanity home builds. As President, I added a recurring blood drive to the Fraternity, collecting an average of 60 units per semester. I also organized community service days each semester where members can attend local service projects together, which has more than doubled member volunteer hours outside of the philanthropy.
Fraternity Service and Philanthropy
Theta Xi Fraternity, Louisiana State University
August 2008 - May 2013
Service Learning Projects
Leadership Development Course (HRE 4724)
Fall 2010 Semester
Coursework for my leadership development minor frequently consisted of planning and implementing original service projects to benefit the local Baton Rouge community. For my capstone project my group and I organized a "share fair," at Southdown's Elementary; a school for special needs and handicapped children. Our project connected 14 local non-profit organizations to the parents of those children the organizations seek to aid. The original idea was brainstormed, planned, coordinated, staffed, and implemented entirely by the group itself. Afterwards, we compiled a guide that future students of the class could use to perpetuate and improve the fair for years to come.