Sydney Lowe, one of three summer interns for She's the First
I remember meeting Tammy Tibbetts almost as if it were yesterday: I was a high school senior and a newly appointed New York Women in Communications 2009 scholarship winner and Tammy was dipping her hand in everything from SeventeenPROM to DonateMyDress.org to the Liberian MacDella Cooper Foundation. This girl, I thought, is going to save the world. I wanted to be just like her.
Fast-forward a year and I’ve just finished up my freshman year at Colgate University, where I’ve been doing some saving the world myself. In high school, I spent my time volunteering at the New York Hall of Science children’s museum, as an assistant coach for my middle school swim team, and as a Phone-Bank volunteer at the Obama for America NYC Headquarters in 2008. By the time I graduated, I had dedicated nearly 300 hours to my various volunteer outlets.
In college, I continued to follow my passion for altruism and combine it with my public relations and communications skills. I am presently a Student Diversity Ambassador Volunteer at the ALANA Cultural Center at Colgate. I volunteered at the inaugural Martin Luther King Day of Service, and this spring, I assumed the role of Assistant Publicity Manager for the Colgate University Hope for Haiti Benefit concert, for which I helped to raise $9,000 to send to those in desperate need in Haiti.
Almost a year ago I was sure Tammy was going to save the world, and now, I’m excited at the prospect of saving the world with her. I am proud to be among the first-ever interns at She’s the First and look forward to an extremely rewarding summer. E-mail me anytime with your ideas at sydney@shesthefirst.org, and read my updates here on the blog every weekend this summer!
