Bookworm Stereotypes Redefined

Provide support for numerous diversity events and causes, including the MLK Breakfast, MLK Golf Tournament, Stand Against Racism, Hispanics Achieving and Celebrating Excellence, Diversity Fares, etc.

I helped a women with her parking garage ticket, the machine ate it. I start random conversations with people and I listen to them. I let the weary Mom with three young children go to the front of the very long pharmacy line.

For the past four years, I've been working with a mentoring group run by undergraduate women at Clark called All Kinds of Girls. We spend time with 9-12 year old girls from the Worcester community and give them a safe space to express themselves and develop who they are as young girls and women, promoting self-esteem and nonviolence. Right now, I'm serving as the AKOG librarian, so I'm trying to expose girls to books about strong women, both fictional and real, that they can learn from. I look forward to my time with these girls every week!

I make friends with everyone at my school - and stand up for them if they are being bullied. Everyone deserves to feel safe and feel they have a friend who has their back.

For a number of years I have volunteered as a tutor through the House of Peace and Education. Through them, I have provided knowledge, a listening ear, emotional support, and care to hundreds of underprivileged children. I have made myself available to any child in their program who needs a trusted adult and/or a positive role model in their life. I have worked hard for them to know that they matter and are important. I've done this by telling them, and by demonstrating it in different ways. I have given them fun activities to do, and taught them things at the same time.