Personal Narrative: Moving From A Mentor To A Program Team Member

Moving from a mentor to a program team member is a huge step because there are more expectations that I must execute. Instead of guiding my mentees, I now have to take the next step to guide the future peer mentors. Although being a program team member involves a lot of work and planning, this will help me become a stronger and more independent person which will help me succeed in my future career. It takes a better leader to go through training of how jobs must be done, and that’s why I’m here. In terms of responsibilities, I went through the phase of being a peer mentor so the tasks are kind of similar. Even though the responsibilities are slightly different from what I have usually done, I know I can adjust to it. Seeing how much work