Passionate Me

We are here to serve others.

No matter my professional role, I have always found myself engaged in my community in a meaningful way. The work highlighted below is an expression of my commitment to living out human rights in my own community. These initiatives are ones I have either led or been lucky to take part in. All of which have the goal of creating a more just world.

Where, after all, do universal rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
The Great Question, 1958

Community Engagement

  • Brown County Coalition for Reading Equity: Facilitated community listening sessions on reading, evaluated county wide reading data and planned for a fall summit on reading (2021-Present)
  • Scholarship Reviewer for Greater Green Bay Community Foundation: Evaluated college scholarship applications from local high school graduates (2020-2022)
  • Brown County United Way Impact Initiatives Council Member: Worked with a team to grow place-based work in 4 neighborhoods in Green Bay, WI. (2020-Present)
  • United ReSisters group: Building a better community for female immigrants in Green Bay (2017-Present)
  • COMSA Summer Youth Leadership Program: Designed and ran a leadership & mentoring program for refugee youth in Green Bay, Wisconsin (2019, 2020).
  • From Ritsona with Love: A series of speaking engagements across Wisconsin educating community members on the refugee crisis in Greece, my time serving refugee youth in a camp and fundraising I AM YOU, an NGO in Ritsona Camp (2016-2019)
  • FLITE: An Access to Education Project (2010-2015)

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