Education & Skills

A Bit More About Me

I believe that my core values of simplicity, non-judgement, honesty, integrity, compassion, love, courage, service, leadership, adventure, joy, and a living hope, guide my decisions through every path my life will take me on. Living a life rooted in these values allows me to face any challenge and maintain a right standing. There are many ways of life that bring us into ruin, but I believe that following after righteousness leads to an abundant and wholesome life.

I find social justice issues and issues that involve the life of the church most important. Social justice issues are broad, and they encompass anything that harms someone societally. There are issues among women, children, race, wage, housing, and basically anything that causes injustice in our society. The life of the church is important to me because it is where people find resilience, love, compassion, justice, and mercy. These two components merge with our humanity and are where hope is found.

Education Experience

August 2024 - December 2025

January 2024 - May 2024

January 2014 - May 2017

University of Central Florida, Bachelor's of Science Degree. Interdisciplinary Studies Major, with a concentration in Computational Science and Public Affairs. Minor in Writing and Rhetoric.

Palm Beach State College. Associates of Arts Degree.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Engineering Technology Major, did not graduate.

Interdisciplinary Studies, Computational Science

I studied computational science because I like how mathematics can help interpret and understand real world problems. The topics covered in this area of study that I enjoyed the most are statistics, programming, and geometry because it helps me to understand how to solve problems using a mathematical mindset.

Skills and Knowledge Development:
In this field of study, I learned how to solve complex equations, use statistics and probability models, and to critically think about geometry.

Synthesis and Application:
Taken together, I was able to develop a high aptitude for interpreting data and validating proper mathematical modeling. I can utilize these skills and knowledge to understand mathematical relationships for big and small issues that could possibly help understand how to serve marginalized populations better.

Interdisciplinary Studies,
Public Affairs

I studied public affairs because it deals with the nonprofit sector. The topics covered in this area of study that I enjoyed the most are volunteering and nonprofits, because they are tied to social justice advocacy groups and leading them.

Skills and Knowledge Development:
In this field of study, I learned how to manage volunteers, how nonprofits operate, and organizational theories.

Synthesis and Application:
Taken together, I was able to develop a more comprehensive understanding for how the nonprofit sector works. I can utilize these skills and knowledge to promote and advocate for social justice, manage the life of the church, and to properly organize and manage nonprofit sector organizations.

Minor,
Writing and Rhetoric

I studied writing and rhetoric because I wanted to learn to become a strong communicator. The topics covered in this area of study that I enjoyed the most are the art of rhetoric and using multimodality as a composition because together, they are powerful tools and have the capacity to create waves of change.

Skills and Knowledge Development:
In this field of study, I learned how to create multimodal content, how to persuade, and how to edit for different audiences.

Synthesis and Application:
Taken together, I was able to develop immersive writing skills that can communicate to different audiences spanning generational boundaries. I can utilize these skills and knowledge to bring people the peace, hope, and love of Jesus Christ through preachings and teachings.

Interdisciplinary Skills

Empathy

I am curious and have a love for learning from other perspectives. I had to think abstractly about different concepts and communicate them well. I self-reflected often to gain more insight. I also had to be persistent and not give up through the challenges. I had to be brave with intellectual courage, but also use empathy and humility to understand other viewpoints.

Critical Thinking

A success with regard to critical thinking was when I had to create a volunteering handbook for my volunteering management class. I decided to use my church as the organization, and I had to think critically about the current organization through gathering information. Then I had to compare different viewpoints and apply them to the theoretical framework to communicate how to create a functional volunteering system. I also had to use a lot of abstract thinking and self-reflection throughout the process in order to challenge existing concepts that can be toxic to the organization’s vitality.

Love of Learning

I successfully integrated a Ukraine church mission and my friend’s construction business, to a grant writing project. I had to find a real US grant to write for, and I wanted to make the project as close to reality as possible. I was able to use the missions’ regions of Ukraine as my focus area, and my friend’s construction business as the support team to write the grant against. I had to be persistent, gather a lot of information, and have an entrepreneurial mindset. I felt very accomplished when I finished because it felt real, almost like it would have worked if I continued to persist with it.

Humility

Many of the students throughout the program were majoring in public affairs, and I would see them on and off in different classes. I had to put aside my attitude and learn to listen, ask questions, and discover what made the other students tick. I used it as an opportunity to gain perspective on the discipline by understanding the perspectives of those who were fully dedicated to it.

Skills That Transfer

Throughout my life, I have acquired many valuable skills that transfer anywhere I go. I have learned to apply these skills to whatever I put my mind to. I learned this throughout my Interdisciplinary education; I learned to synthesize disciplines and to creatively think of solutions for complex problem solving.

My greatest skills are found in leadership. It requires emotional intelligence, communication, problem solving, conflict resolution, and project management skills. It's about creating teams through focusing on relationships, which transfers across any discipline. I've humbly learned that on our own, we can accomplish nothing. We only adapt and overcome problems together and are able to become greater assets for success by learning from one another.

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