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Adrianna Roth
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Hello! My name is Adrianna and I'm an alumnus of Michigan State University. I majored in Social Relations and Policy, through the James Madison Program, and minored in Spanish and Women & Gender Studies. I plan to further my education by attending graduate school at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. My goal is to become an immigration attorney and help those struggling to make it into the United States. After extensively researching the intersections of immigration policy and Midwestern Agriculture, I know there is a need for driven and goal-oriented people to make crucial changes to immigration policy in this country. I would like to be one of those people. As a motivated student currently pursuing a law degree, I hope to be able to make a positive impact on the communities that need help in the future.
Education
Ohio State University-Main Campus
Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)Majors:
- Law
Michigan State University
Bachelor's degree programMajors:
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
- Social Sciences, Other
Minors:
- Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies, Other
- Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
Miscellaneous
Desired degree level:
Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)
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Majors of interest:
Career
Dream career field:
Law Practice
Dream career goals:
Judge
Data Collection
Student Researcher2023 – 2023Student Intern
Williams County Prosecutor2022 – 2022Student Assistant
Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity2023 – 2023
Sports
Archery
Varsity2016 – 20204 years
Research
Agricultural and Food Products Processing
Michigan State University Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources — Data Collection2023 – 2023Political Science and Government
Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity — Researcher2023 – 2023Political Science and Government
Senior Seminar at MSU — Researcher and Writer2023 – 2023
Arts
Michigan State University (Senior Project)
PaintingN/A2023 – 2023
Public services
Volunteering
Williams County Health Department Vaccination Clinic — Data Entry2021 – 2021
Future Interests
Advocacy
Politics
Volunteering
Philanthropy
Entrepreneurship
A Man Helping Women Helping Women Scholarship
I could feel the warmth from the breaths of the one hundred or so dairy cows crowding around me. Steam rose from their fresh manure beneath my chilled work boots. The smell was almost unbearable for my unconditioned nose, but I continued to sheepishly follow the tall, broad-shouldered Dutchman slowly walking ahead of me. At the end of the pen, the man turned to me, caught a glimpse of my wide-eyed expression, and laughed. I lived in a rural area of Northwest Ohio but lacked any knowledge about farming or raising livestock. Despite this, I found a career in agriculture intriguing. I approached my best friend’s parents, who owned a dairy farm, about job shadowing. While working there, I had the opportunity to build real connections with the other employees. The majority of my coworkers only spoke Spanish and were from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and other Central American countries. At the time I was in my second year of Spanish at school, so I was interested in speaking to them and learning about their culture. Whether it was sharing Mexican recipes or our favorite Spanish songs, I was involved with their lives, and they were involved with mine. I even started to pick up on some Dutch culture and language from my bosses. Even though my bosses, coworkers, and I were from vastly different backgrounds and cultures, it felt as if I had become a part of a family. After about six months of working there, news spread that due to the steady decline in milk prices, the dairy farm was going to close. My coworkers almost exclusively spoke Spanish, many being undocumented workers or soon-to-expire visa workers, so they were left in an extremely difficult situation. I was able to keep in contact with a few of them; they had moved across the country within a few weeks of the farm closing. My bosses, and best friend, had applied for green cards several years prior but still had yet to make it through the system, so they were going to have to move back to the Netherlands. I was devastated. Since then, I have been driven to investigate the immigration system and pursue a career in labor and immigration law.
At Michigan State’s James Madison College, I chose to pursue a Social Relations and Policy degree because this major allowed me to specifically learn about immigration policy and many other social policies that have negatively impacted minority groups. I’ve had the privilege to take courses that push me to expand my researching, writing, and learning skills. I’ve researched several topics I found interesting in social policy; some topics I have written papers on include LGBTQ+ parental rights, the Head Start program, social class inequalities, and immigration policy. In all of my projects, I have explored why and how certain social policies negatively impact minority groups and what can be done to change those policies' effects.
From being a heartbroken sixteen-year-old saying goodbye to her second family to a twenty-one-year-old determined undergraduate student, I have never wavered from my goal of going to law school and working to address issues within policy. I hope to become someone who changes the policies that hinder and prolong immigrants’ ability to live and work in the United States. I plan to achieve this goal by attending the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and participating in its Immigration Clinic. Immigration policy in the United States needs to be positively changed by well-educated and driven people. I hope to be one of those people in the future.