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Hobbies and interests
Community Service And Volunteering
Animals
Veterinary Medicine
Beach
Sleeping
Art
Astrology
Conservation
Concerts
Music
Environmental Science and Sustainability
Fashion
Drawing And Illustration
Ethics
Marine Biology
Track and Field
Nails
Sustainability
Tarot
Painting and Studio Art
Reading
Romance
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
I read books multiple times per week
Kayliah Limsang
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Kayliah Limsang
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My name is Kayliah Joy Limsang, emphasis on Joy! I am currently a senior in high school and am so excited to see what the future has in store. I plan on studying Marine Science with a Pre-Veterinarian Track, on the road to becoming an aquatic animal rehabilitator. As a woman of color, advocacy is extremely important to me and I hope to bring it into my profession along the line.
Education
Palmer Trinity School
High SchoolMiscellaneous
Desired degree level:
Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)
Majors of interest:
- Veterinary Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
- Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians
- Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy
- Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
- Marine Sciences
- Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies, Other
Career
Dream career field:
Veterinary
Dream career goals:
Assistant
Eureka Animal Clinic2022 – 20231 year
Sports
Track & Field
Varsity2019 – Present5 years
Awards
- 3rd Place in 100 meter hurdles at Districts freshman year
Arts
I am an art student and I have worked with Locust Projects.
Visual ArtsStronger on The Other Side2020 – Present
Public services
Advocacy
Black Student Union — Spread awareness about hardships in the community as well as shared various ways to help support. The most notable being the large number of people I was able to get to sign petitions about racial struggles like the Julius Jones case.2020 – PresentAdvocacy
Metamorphosis Women's Activism Club — Founding member and two-year Historian. I have dedicated time to making and selling jewelry, donating the proceeds to our local women's shelter, women in Guatemala and the Thistle Farms Organization who helps women of domestic abuse.2021 – PresentVolunteering
Student Ambassador — I tour incoming families around my high school campus and provide information about the school.2021 – PresentVolunteering
Eureka Animal Clinic — Voluntary Assistant2022 – 2023
Future Interests
Advocacy
Volunteering
Entrepreneurship
Eunice Richardson Scholarship for Girls
When I suggested making colorful pouches to beautify the mastectomy drainage bags for local breast cancer patients, my mother was not surprised. We had recently made mastectomy bags for my aunt during her cancer treatment. The look on her face and the change in her mood inspired me to make more. I’ve always loved helping others and this project has become one of many. After months passed and needles broke, we donated almost 100 bags, bright with expressive fabric, to the hospital in hopes of bringing joy to others.
Growing up, I imagined becoming like my grandmother, Joy, as family members shared stories about her caring nature. I’d sit in awe as they told me how she sent barrels with school supplies to underprivileged children back home in Jamaica, even as she was fighting stage four ovarian cancer. Although she passed before I was born, I see my mother continuing her legacy. While I dreaded it as a child, I remember constantly being dragged across the city to care for our elderly relatives and do charity work. From cooking curry goat and roti to cheer me up, and making my dads medicinal, Chinese fever grass soup when someone was feeling ill, seeing my mother go out of her way to help people made me want to do the same.
Now that I am older, my favorite attribute about myself is the joy I get from helping others. This is no surprise considering I inherited “Joy” as my middle name. My friends have even designated me as the “mom” in our group. I channel my mother’s boldness to care when speaking up for my shy friend to tell the waiter about her serious nut allergy. I recall my mother’s preparedness when I stocked my backpack with a variety of feminine products for whenever there was a girl in need. I remember the comfort of crying with my mother on my grandmother’s birthday, as I hugged my friend who immigrated last year from Germany as she shared the struggles of a new environment while we strategized how to find her a homecoming date. Even though my friends say it's a bit embarrassing, I make sure I compliment at least one person as we walk through the school halls, especially if I don’t know them. Whether it is a simple compliment or finding myself signing petitions for 20 minutes, I need to care for others.
As a historian of Metamorphosis, a school club to supports the growth of women, I had the opportunity to share my passion through the project of making mastectomy bags. Although I loved this special activity between myself and my mother, I want to make my impact greater by getting more people involved. I have put together a presentation for school administration and recruited club members to personalize and donate more bags to the oncology department at a nearby hospital. Not only are we doing this to help those who are fighting the deadly disease, but we are also honoring my grandmother and her passion for helping others.
Although huge gestures are important, for me the smaller things are just as impactful. People often say that the most rewarding things are money or acknowledgment, but for me, it's the smile on somebody's face. When I'm able to make even the slightest difference in someone's life I feel so accomplished. My love for aiding others in any way possible carried on the family legacy, and I hope that one day I will have a daughter to continue the cycle.