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Okay, so, I've taken a couple different leadership roles at Berkeley. One in my group, The Suitcase
Clinic, I am an officer in that club, and basically what I do is help homeless and low income clients from
like the Berkeley area find resources to meet their social and health care needs. Additionally,
I have worked as a health worker with the health worker program in Unit 1. It's basically
a program, run from the health center on campus, the Tang Center, and we work with students
to help them take responsibility for their own health, and provide them with resources.
So, I really think that it's kinda clear that freshmen can't really get leadership roles.
You have to start in an organization and move your way up. So, right now I'm in Cal Band
and the ASUC Student Advocate's Office, and right now I'm just kind of a member of each
of those organizations, but I'm really working hard and learning the ways and how to move
up, and eventually I'll get there hopefully.
You end up taking on leadership roles anyway
in some capacity, so whether it's a group, whether it's in lab, whether it's mentoring,
which ends up happening a lot as a senior. I guess my favorite leadership role has probably
been my contribution to a small Salvadorian student group on campus. So, it's a group
on campus, which is just a small gathering place for descendants of Salvadorian immigrants,
or individuals of Salvadorian descent. And I help organize events and things like that
and just keep the community together, and it's probably one of the best experiences
of my time here at Cal. Something so small can be so beautiful.
I'm actually the president of the Hispanic Engineers and Sciences here at Berkeley.
Currently I am the REACH shadow
co-coordinator, which is the Asian, Pacific Islander, Recruitment and Retention Center
here on campus. Basically, my role is to bring high school students from all over the Bay
Area and Central Cal in order for them to get a feel of what college is like and hopefully
encourage them to pursue higher education.
Biggest leadership role I've done so far is
definitely being a CalSO counselor. Being able to meet new people and help orient them
coming to Berkeley, it's a fun leadership position.
I've taken a few leadership roles
at Berkeley, I've been co-chair for Advising Immigrant Scholarship Through Education here
at Cal and I've also had some leadership positions in the Chicano/Latino student development office.
There are a lot of student groups in CED, the College of Environmental Design,
and I've taken part in this ambassador program where you reach out to community colleges
or high schools and basically promote the college to them and try to extend the opportunity
to as many kids as we can.
I'm vice president of service for my fraternity, Lamda Phi Epsilon,
I also started a magic club because I'm very passionate about performing magic and we do
things with cards, coins and stage and it's just a very interesting experience. Right
now I'm also running for ASUC senate, and through all of these experiences, I've learned that
leadership is primarily based in service.
I actually joined several clubs on campus
and one of them is the Disabled Students Union so I'm the Vice President of Internal Affairs,
and by that I actually organize activities, book rooms, and plan disability awareness
week which is one of our biggest events on campus.
This semester I'm a new peer adviser
for the College of Chemistry, which means that I hold office hours where people can
come in and talk about anything they're worried about with regards to their general plan or
their classes and so forth. We also have a blog that we're trying to get up and running.
I'm part of the Tae Kwon Do team at Cal and so, as part of that, we kind of help to teach
the incoming classes, I don't know if you guys have heard of DeCals, Tae Kwon Do DeCals, we teach those,
and so that's one leadership role that I've taken at Cal.