Social Justice And Community Engagement

My unique understanding of social justice and community engagement is inextricably related to my understanding of opportunity-- specifically opportunity that is granted through education and mentorship. In my first semester at Cornell, I participated in AVID, a program that provides students at Ithaca High School (in demographic groups typically underrepresented in colleges and universities) with tutors at Cornell University. This semester, in addition to my work in AVID, I will be working in the Cornell Prison Education Program-- which helps to grant educational opportunity to Auburn Correctional Facility prisoners, through coursework provided by Cornell. As an OADI FIC Mobilizer, I hope to organize and inspire my peers at Cornell to use their