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Uthmpact Leadership Report

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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” This quote by Mahatma Ghandi resonates with me; because it reminds me why it is important for me to be a leader in my community and serve to make a positive difference. I am a leader in my community by serving in my church, school and city. I believe in using my training, upbringing and influence to help make things better. Being selected to participate in the Uthmpact Leadership Program will help me develop into a better leader by exposing me to wonderful knowledge, observations, experiences and positive role models. For instance, as a child it was important for me to help make things better, my parents’ say I sought to assist others. If someone was sick; I was trying to give them medicine, comfort them, take their temperature and make them happy again. I knew I wanted to be a pediatrician. …show more content…

National Honor Society and Yearbook member. Within the City of Winter Haven and Lakeland, I have served with Barbara’s Centre of Dance and volunteered with Relay for Life and Breast Cancer Awareness, The Chain of Lake Achievers Leadership Training, and Taken By Surprised (TBS) Step Team to feed the homeless and distributed Back to School supplies as a part of our service projects.
Therefore, having an opportunity to be a part of this coalition for teens to continue to impact my peers while enhancing my leadership skills would be a dream come true. I would be cultivating my leadership skills, learning the inner workings of government, receiving additional exposure to local government, healthcare, and law. Representing Uthmpact would empower me to continue to be the change within the community and to make this world a better

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