I graduated from UNH with degrees in Journalism and International Affairs and loads of student debt. My family's bank account is often in the negative and they cannot help me pay off my debt or pay for graduate school. Despite our financial instability, education has always been central to my family values, so when I'm not studying, I work year-round and have never wasted a single opportunity. I actively chase things that will push me out of my comfort zone. I've worked previously as a journalist and reporter, and have had two of my articles picked up by the Associated Press.I often challenged my colleagues to include more diverse voices in the news. I have enormous dreams and I know I can achieve them if only given the opportunity. Any and all scholarships will help bring those opportunities closer to where I can reach. In the last two years, I have also healed from a PTSD diagnosis, the achievement I'm most proud of to date. I am in a master's degree program for Children's Literature, Media, and Cultural Entrepreneurship at the University of Glasgow (the form below will not let me type in an international school name, so my undergrad university is a placeholder). While studying, I am writing a novel and in the process of self-publishing an ADHD cookbook for adults just trying to feed themselves (I also have ADHD). I have roughly $90k of student debt and am worried I won't be able to afford my monthly repayments after graduation.

• Hostess and Busser

  Food & Beverages · Cole Farms

  Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

• Cashier

  Food & Beverages · Cumberland House of Pizza

  Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

• Tent Counselor and Hiking Trip Leader

  Summer Camp · Aloha Camp

  Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

• Resident Assistant

  Higher Education · University of New Hampshire

  Jan 2020 – Present

• Sales Associate

  Retail · L.L. Bean

  Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

• Videographer

  Videography · University of New Hampshire

  Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

• Reporter

  Journalism · The Valley News

  Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

• Advocacy
• Politics
• Volunteering
• Entrepreneurship

• Singer

  Music

  2005 – Present

  Productions:

  District Two (8 years), All-State (3 years), All-Nationals (1 year), school choirs (every school year)

• Performer

  Theatre

  2007 – Present

  Productions:

  A musical, play and one act every year of high school, at least 1 musical a year prior, 4 plays in college

• Grassroots clipboarding and tabling

  Volunteering · Fight4HER

  2018 – 2019

  Mission:

  To pass the HER act and end the Mexico City Policy

• Junior facilitator and Emcee in different years

  Volunteering · Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership

  2016 – 2019