I am a senior at Paul Laurence Dunbar SHS. I plan to attend Florida Memorial University in fall of 2016. My intended major is Psychology and a minor in sociology. I am from Washington DC.I have been working at The Young Women's Project since November 2015. I love to read books and go out with friends. My favorite thing about working at the Young women’s project is being able to inform my age group on the importance safe sex. I also like to make people feel empowered, although we aren’t adults we have a lot of important decisions to make and being safe is a big one. I also enjoy being able to help teens and give advice to make sure they are being as safe and responsible as they can be. I understand that it is their choice in what they do, but they will make better decisions if they are informed. I am most proud of my first testimony on what should be fixed at my school. I was extremely nervous and I did a pretty good job. I pushed it all to the side so I can express how I felt about my school's college counselor and post-secondary plan opportunities for graduating students. After I graduate from college I hope to become a child psychologist and return to DC to help kids not become the statistic people are hoping for them to be. I want to give them the opportunities to succeed in life and have someone to look up to if they aren’t given this at home. I want to assist in fixing the problems that they may have faced growing up. I do not plan to become successful and forget about where I came from, I want to be a role model of what kids like me could be one day.