I had the privilege of serving as a Core Guide for the 2019 Leadership Safari Conference. As a core guide I worked on developing, advising, selecting and training the Fall Leadership Safari Staff. Core Team members perform a variety of logistical, organizational, outreach and marketing tasks. At the end of this summer, all of the [...]
During the previous 2018-2019 academic year I served on the Academic Senate Library Committee. There were a few other LAS students that also served on the committee. At the meetings we would listen to the committee discuss updates on the library, and survey results from the previous year. Serving on this committee encouraged me to [...]
The alternative breaks program is one of my absolute favorites on CMU's campus. The summer before my junior year at school I traveled to Singer Island, FL with twelve passionate women to volunteer on behalf of animal endangerment. At this time in my life, I was in desperate need of some positivity in my life. [...]
In high school, I was very active in an organization called, "Northern Michigan DecoTec". Deco-Tec is an ecumenical renewal movement created by the DeColores community. It is a weekend that supports and thrives on peer ministry, and works with teens transitioning into adulthood. TEC in DecoTec stands for "Teens Encountering Christ". The weekend team members consist of adults [...]
Spark Leadership is a one day conference about discovering your leadership style, and tapping into pinpointing your leadership identity. At the beginning of Spark, I was split up into a small group along with everyone else. We started off with a few icebreaker activities toget warmed up to the other members of our groups. The [...]
Living in northern Michigan, I have been blind to a lot of the issues Detroit has gone through. I've always known that it took a turn for the worst, but I didn't know when and I didn't know why. Detroit isn't something connected to me personally, so I never went out of my way to learn the history [...]
Makenna Hogerheide 