I attended Everett Community College from 2010-2012. I received my High School diploma and Associates Degree with high honors. While attending classes full time, I was also a Student Senator, served on the Strategic Planning Committee, was the Leadership officer for our chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, was the Vice President of the Student’s for Environmental Action Club, co-created the Spanish club, and was a member of the writing club. I also worked for the information desk on campus and volunteered as a student mentor in a middle school with the Mentor Project on campus. While a student at EvCC, I was also a full time employee at the Kumon Math and Reading Centers of Mukilteo and Marysville and the co-leader of a Girl Scout troop of over thirty girls.

I attended classes at the University of Montana for the school year of 2014-2015, and am still technically a student there. I am a graduate student in the Global Youth Development program. In the 2014-2015 school year I completed all of my academic portion of my degree besides a final paper. My Peace Corps Service is serving as an internship and at the completion of that, I will submit a final 40 page paper and receive my degree. While attending classes, I also worked as a stand supervisor in the concessions department of the University and volunteered with the Peace Corps representative on campus for events.

I completed my undergraduate degree at The Evergreen State College from 2012-2014. My first year at Evergreen I took a sixteen credit year-long program in consciousness studies and psychology. It was an amazing program that challenged me and taught me a great deal. I also began working full-time at the local chain movie theater that year. My second year was my last, so I didn’t want to get tied into another year long or two-quarter long program. My first quarter that year, I took a sixteen credit program called Can Science Help Me…To Be Better? At first it sounded like an amazing program, but it ended up being very disorganized and challenging. The two professors that taught it didn’t seem to ever be on the same page and there were a lot of confusing assignments. I also took a four credit class on the History and Systems of Psychology. It was a challenging quarter with two classes (20 credits) I didn’t particularly enjoy and I was also working over full-time as a manager at the movie theater and part time as a first-grade classroom assistant. My second quarter I took all individual classes in psychology. It was a better quarter and I met an absolutely amazing professor who has forever changed my life, but it still wasn’t my favorite quarter. My last quarter was. In my last quarter, I created all of my classes. I did what is called Individual Learning Contracts at Evergreen. I connected with four different faculty who agreed to be my advisers and formed my own classes in Developmental Psychology, Eastern Psychology focused on Meditation, Ceramics, and a small project in connection to the Western Psychological Association Conference. Most people only take a four credit contract at a time because it requires so much self-motivation and work ethic that otherwise they lose credit. I decided to just jump into it though and try for all four and it was a great success. I learned more that quarter than I had in all my other quarters combined. I completed my Bachelors of Arts with an area of focus in psychology the year I turned twenty.