In the community
One of my most significant accomplishments was when I suggested creating a program that focused on suicide prevention and mental health awareness and was put in charge of the program at Montgomery County Comm
unity College. It was a 5-day program that consisted of a 16-hour certification on the different models of suicide prevention, intervention, and the aftermath. It also consisted of putting together packages for local high schools and colleges, managing tables on campus to hand out information to minimize the taboo around mental health and suicide, and introducing a mental health awareness kiosk to the campus. The program was a success and I’m sure Dominic, my cousin who I lost to suicide, would have been proud. I learned a lot through the program and lot about myself as a leader, where my strengths lay, and where I can continue to grow. (03/2015-06/2015)
With being personally affected by suicide and seeing how the damage cascades, I think that mental health wellness and suicide awareness should 
not have a stigma around it. I have raised over a thousand dollars and participated in volunteer work and walks for the American Suicide Prevention Foundation in Washington D.C. and Philadelphia. It is becoming a growing issue and can no longer be ignored. (05/2010-present)
This is me, my book club, and some new found friends when we created a working library. The club’s president’s brother is an English teacher at the Bedford Stuyvesant Co
llegiate Charter School in Brooklyn, NY and told us about the library, or lack of so we went around to schools, businesses, friends, and family to collect books and filled a moving truck with almost 3000 books and took the 4.5 drive to Brooklyn, NY. We sorted through all the books and categorized them by adding each book into the computers to set up a catalog system so they could now organize everything and keep track 
on the books. Afterwards, we sat in on some classes and got to know the students. It was really an eye-opener to see them so happy for books that ot
her kids throw in the trash. Even though they were so young they still knew how lucky they were to be in this school and loved learning .. and telling us about it! (01/10-03/10)