Living with two African siblings and staying up late to study for a rigorous International Baccalaureate test may sound like they don't have anything in common, but, for me, the two scenarios are tied closely together. In 2009 my family embarked on a life-long journey of adoption; soon, a six year old boy from Ethiopia who suffers from an attachment disorder joined our picture perfect family of four blue eyed children. During the summer of 2010, we adopted a five year old...

Applied for and accepted into the Emerging Leaders program at Winthrop University.

If you’ve ever thought of yourself as a leader, you’ve probably envisioned a tall, sharply dressed version of yourself, somewhere in the near future, with an army of underlings and a voice to call all the shots. Leader personality types make the best CEOs, managers, entrepreneurs, and principals, so why wouldn’t they take every opportunity to let their views be heard above the rest? There is one very important answer to this “why not” question; because forcing...

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I would have kept an open mind all the way up to the end of the application process. About half-way through, I was convinced I was going to one school - a private, Christian college that cost way...

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