April 19, 2018
What are you currently doing, professionally and/or personally?
I am currently a freshman at the University of Minnesota. In addition to this, I am a 4/C Marine Corps option Midshipmen at the NROTC unit here with a commissioning date of May 2021. After commissioning I will serve as a 2nd LT in the United States Marine Corps
How did you get there? Are there some career moves or other key experiences or relationships that have inspired you?
MPA inspired me to think about the bigger picture and this was the driving force that inspired me to enter military service. Through MPA I learned to love education which is why I decided to go down the officer route.
How did your MPA experience prepare you for your life today? How did MPA help you dream big and do right?
MPA really taught me to think about the bigger picture. Dreaming big and doing right is the core of everything I am doing as a Midshipmen. We are taught to think about others before ourselves this is something that I first learned at MPA, so it was easy to carry over.
What’s next? Any aspirations-personal or professional-that you’d like to share?
My goal right now is to learn as much as I can about being a leader so in three years I can be an effective officer that puts the enlisted men and women first and develop them to be caring world citizens.
This story is part of a new series called The Year of 100 Stories, launched by the Mounds Park Academy Alumni Association in January 2018. All alumni are warmly invited to tell their story! Email alumni@moundsparkacademy.org for more information.
