TaborTalk Blog

We are about half way done with senior projects already, but it feels like I have been working on mine for an eternity. For my senior project I am working on my public speaking skills while traveling to different schools and talking to students about the importance of self-love. I have always weirdly enjoyed public speaking and have aspired to give a TED Talk in my lifetime. After meeting Alexis Jones last fall, and later Emily Greener in the spring, I was inspired to actively pursue this dream. Therefore, I took the opportunity to do so through a senior project, turning lessons I have learned over the years into the subject of my talks. I have narrowed my topic specifically to the importance of self-love, because I have found that it is the core lesson I have needed to learn so far in my lifetime.

When dreaming my sophomore year of the female empowerment work I wanted to do here on campus, I never imagined what that journey would entail. Almost a year later, it is still hard to believe that it happened to me. Meeting Alexis Jones last fall on campus, one of my top role models, was a dream come true enough, and when she asked me to maintain an I AM THAT GIRL Foundation presence here on campus, I was honored. I thought that was not quite the end of the road for this adventure, but I did not see what could top meeting Alexis and launching our chapter. I was soon proven wrong.