Learning How to 'Rep': The 2020 NSLI-Y Alumni Representative Workshop

2020 NSLI-Y Alumni Representatives

From Left: Rayyan Merchant (Florida, Southeast), Will Yee (Virtual), Elaine Zhang (Chicago, IL, Great Lakes), Phillip Ipock (San Francisco, CA, West Coast), Ashish Thakur (Virtual), Tejas Muthusamy (Richmond, VA, Southeast), Andrew Douglas (Portland, OR, West Coast), Shreya Mapadath (Dallas, TX, Southwest), Tamia Harvey-Martin (Philadelphia, PA, Mid-Atlantic), Alejandra Robles (Los Angeles, CA, West Coast), Marria Peduto (Bloomington, IN, Midwest), Halden Levin (Chapel Hill, NC, Southeast), Erin Hardy (Salt Lake City, UT, Mountain), Luke Tyson (Pittsburgh, PA, Midwest), Amy Binder (Twin Cities, MN, Great Lakes), Abigail Goodman (New York, NY, Northeast), Peyton Dashiell (Austin, TX, Southwest), Meenu Bhooshanan (Virtual)

Every year, the NSLI-Y Alumni Representative Workshop is held at American Councils’ headquarters in Washington DC. American Councils is a non-profit organization that facilitates NSLI-Y with State Department funding. At the end of my winter break, I had the opportunity to fly to Washington DC and attend this two/three day workshop with seventeen other representatives across the nation. After I returned to school, I decided to write an NSLI-Y Interactive story to recap my experiences from the workshop and share with other alumni, students, and families what it means to be an NSLI-Y Alumni Representative. I encourage you to take a look!