Honor Society® member
Alexis Martin
Intern at 2023 Bank of America Student Leader at the West Angeles Community Development Corporation
- Political Science
- Class of 2024
- Los Angeles, California
Member since February 2024
Education
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Chadwick School
2020 – 2024
Honors and awards
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Posse Finalist (National)
Chosen as one of over 1,000 people to be selected as a Posse Scholarship Finalist
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Featured in LA Times ad, Bank of America Website, & LA Parent Magazine
1 of 300 selected among 5000 applicants nationally (6% Acceptance Rate) from one of the most competitive markets (Los Angeles). Flown out for an all-expenses paid trip to Washington D.C to attend a week-long summit learning about the issues our communitie
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5K Fellowship Recipient
$5K Fellowship Winner. Piano project teaching 30 students piano and emotional wellness in low-income and underserved communities with grant from The Dragon Kim Fellowship. I taught students how to identify their emotions, express their emotions, and led t
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Certificate of Recognition @ USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Issued Jul 2022
A selective summer summer program of 26 students throughout the LA area being exposed to USC first-year classes in journalism/media (all expenses paid).
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Jack & Jill On The Hill Summit 2023 Essay Contest Winner
Wrote a passionate essay about the removal of affirmative action and its implications.
Goals and interests
- Career goal
Pre-law, Intended human rights lawyer
- Graduate school interests
Law School
- Outside the classroom
In my free time, I like to run.
Experience
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Intern
2023 Bank of America Student Leader at the West Angeles Community Development Corporation
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023
Volunteering
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Solo-lead of The Note-worthy Project
The Dragon Kim Foundation
Feb 2023 – Aug 2023
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Mentor to Ukrainian students about journalism, equipping them with the tools to write intriguing articles and share their stories through the art of journalism. I also teach them English weekly. Oftentimes, they share stories about their hometowns being bombed, air strikes, and how they want their voices heard.
The Holos Project: Published Points of View
Jan 2023 – Dec 2023
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Listener on mental health hotline. Attended a 65-hour 10-week training to email, text, and listen on a mental health hotline. I gained essential empathic skills. We often practice applying them to other situations outside of Teenline. I am extensively trained to provide support for others & skilled in crisis intervention. I’ve spent countless nights on the phone past closing hours to bring suicidal teens to safety, whether that’s been through developing a safety plan, bringing the police to their homes, bringing them to the hospital, getting them to step away from lethal means, and ultimately staying with them until they no longer feel suicidal. I give them the resources to cope when suicidal feelings may arise in the future. I’ve stayed up to call child protective services to people’s homes, directed youth to planned parenthood when seeking abortions, I’ve made sexual assault/rape files to the police, and throughout all of this, I keep the caller feeling calm and supported.
Teen Line
Jun 2022 – Jul 2024
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Ocean Neighbor, Volunteer
Aquarium of the Pacific
Mar 2022 – Sep 2022
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Mentor to young Black Girls
LA Jets (Legacy Jets)
Nov 2020 – Apr 2021
Languages
- Chinese (Simplified) Intermediate
Additional information
Organizations
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Jack and Jill of America
