How do you plan to make specific, meaningful contributions to the Wharton community?

Taking into consideration your background – personal, professional, and/or academic – how do you plan to make specific, meaningful contributions to the Wharton community (400 words)

At Wharton, one of the biggest contributions I plan to make is to the Wharton Wildmen Hockey Club. Hockey has been my passion all my life: in college I was captain of our NCAA ice hockey team, leading 30 players through workouts and captain’s practices to make sure we were prepared for games. Today, as the volunteer head coach for the NGO South LA On Ice, I help inner-city kids learn to skate, stickhandle and be a good teammate. Recent Wharton graduate Prue Leith talked to me about how central the Wharton Wildmen are to the Wharton community: of course, I hope to play on the travel team, but Prue also explained that former college players like me can contribute as goalies, coaches, and referees for the club squads. I am eager to plan drills and ensure that games run smoothly; most of all, I look forward to helping my fellow Wharton students fall in love with hockey.

I also plan to contribute to Wharton Global Impact Consultants, sharing my experience as a project lead for Net Impact: in 2021, I collaborated with the community non-profit planning organization California Urban Collective, to develop a pricing tool that calculated ticket prices for their workshops. I will harness this experience as a project leader for Wharton Global Impact Consultants¸ contributing my perspective to my teammates’ initiatives. Mary Berry (’23) told me about her first-year client, BTD, a Bosnian non-profit that solves social issues in the ethnic enclaves of Goradze, and her experience as the project lead for eSolutions Africa, for whom she and her team won grants from The Aspen Institute and the World Bank.

As a first-year, I will join the Student Admissions Program and seek the role of Admissions Fellow, helping applicants that were once in my shoes as an applicant through hosting coffee chats, touring prospective students, and – the best job of all -- telling accepted students that they have been accepted. I held a similar role at Swanky Private College, when I welcomed prospective Swanky students to campus by taking them to class, touring the athletic center, and introducing them to students with similar interests. First-year student Paul Hollywood (’24) said that the program not only provided him with perspective on his own Wharton experience, but that it was also fulfilling to help applicants that are in the same position he was, just a few years ago.