Middle School Leadership Report

During middle school, being a leader meant someone who took charge of people. Someone who was in complete control and always had the answers. Someone whose voice commanded the entire room. Someone who was confident in every move they made. At that point in my life I didn’t consider myself a leader at all. I was timid and shy. I was afraid to even raise my hand in a classroom, let alone speak up when I saw a problem and had an idea of how it could change. I couldn’t even speak up for myself, let alone speak on behalf of others. As I grew older and reached high school, this idea of a leader started to change. I saw that a large part of being a leader was being a voice for others. Listening to the communities problems and using your own voice to do something about
Yes, of course. Simply by wanting to find change for myself betters my community. Taking the time out to learn about leadership and myself is an action of leadership. I can bring back what I have learned to my community and start to make change. Growing as a leader I want to learn how to galvanize change. I know that this isn’t something a leader immediately learns but, hearing stories of college students making change happen on campus really inspires me to do the same. I want to also learn about how to make coalitions on campus and how to use technology to bring change to other campuses. Boycotting and buycotting are consumer activism techniques that I would like to learn how to implement not only on an individual scale but on a global scale. This matters to me because it is a way to bring wealth back to the communities back home. Speaking of back home, I would like to learn about ways to work with others to find a solution for a problem. For example, back in the Bronx kids in my high school struggled to get high SAT scores even with the SAT prep provided in schools and AP courses. I want to find a way to change that without imposing a solution of my own upon