Why would you be a good candidate for this position?

I believe that I have many qualities that would make me a good candidate for school president. Primarily, I am passionate and dedicated to anything I set my mind to. I am always striving making the Hackley community the best it can be in any way that I can. I am very positive, approachable, and work well with others in groups. In addition, I encourage suggestions from others, and always appreciate the thought of an idea and consider whatever is brought to my attention. I am prepared to work my hardest as president to get what is asked of me completed and to go over and beyond the expectations of others.

Secondly, I have experience in leadership roles at Hackley in my positions of Junior President and co-leader of the PS81 service group. In these roles, I have picked up organizational and communicative skills as well as learned the ropes of council and how to execute large school-wide events. I know what will be expected of me as the president from attending council meetings as well as the events held by council, and I am more than willing to step into that role and am prepared to do so with my background and skillset as a leader. Every Tuesday Community Council meeting is something that I look forward to and I really value the time I’ve had as president this year. I would love to be given the opportunity to rejoin council and lead the school to another great school year in 2016-2017.

What have you done for the Hackley Community?

As a leader of the PS81 service group, I have helped plan and lead numerous events in the Hackley community. I helped organize monthly trips to PS81 to interact with the students there and foster their love of school as well as organize and execute our extremely successful Dodgeball Tournament, which ultimately raised over $3,000 for the students at PS81. In addition, I helped lead the student specific holiday toy drive for two years, which was a great success and meant a great deal to the students at PS81 who could not afford gifts for the holidays.

As Junior President, I have also contributed greatly to each of the events we’ve held on community council. On the decorating committee for Snowball this year, I helped plan out what we could do for decorations within our budget and went out to Party City to get the supplies we needed. I always offer to send out emails whenever we need to, and help set up the events we hold as well as “man” the table for council at tailgates. I try to bring spirit to athletic events and attend as many as possible, as well as attend the productions at Hackley, from Acting 2 lunch performances to the plays. (The Katrina Project was fantastic!) I have been leading the planning for the Color Run and am working to get it together by the end of May – I researched what types of paint we could use, figured out the logistics of location and timing, and even made a PowerPoint and presented to the rest of Council as to why I think this could be a successful event. Furthermore, I am helping to organize our Spring Carnival/Woodstock event which will be happening at the end of May as well.

What are your goals if elected?

If elected, I plan to increase the spirit in our community, starting with not only athletic and theatrical events, but especially for the Council-run events. I am currently helping to plan the spring carnival, color run, and Field Day/Olympics, and I know that these events would all be 10 times as fun if we had more excitement and for them and more spirit during these events. I would accomplish this goal by using more video promotions, posters, and more announcements in Chapels, Lindsay Rooms, and homerooms. I also want to encourage more feedback and input on events from the entire student body, which I could accomplish through more online polling and discussion with the student body about the things being planned in Council.