Hey Everyone!

Name: Jazmine Piña

Major: Sociology and Public Policy

Hometown: Mount Vernon, New York

Service:Alpha Phi Omega, Tribe Ambassadors, Project Mexico, WMIDMUN and WMHSMUN and at home I'm an honorary member of the East Yonkers Kiwanis club (so I do the service and just don't pay dues, it's pretty sweet.), work with the Key Club in my high school and volunteer at the children's hospital where my twin sister and I went after we were born.

Favorite book: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

About Service: I went to a private, catholic, all-girls school from 6th grade until I graduated from high school and to most people that didn't experience it firsthand, it was an environment that was often was stereotyped as petty girls who lived off of their parent's money and didn't care about anything outside of the walls of our school. Our school motto was "Serviam" which meant "I will serve" in Latin and anyone that spent time at Ursuline, whether for seven years or just for a school-wide liturgy, saw that was an environment where service and helping others was weaved into almost every facet of our education, with sixth graders through seniors actually volunteering (not forcibly volunteering, but signing up week after week to serve) in groups at nursing homes and soup kitchens around Westchester on a regular basis. From just learning about service and experiencing it as a part of my education, it grew into something that I wanted to do and became an even bigger part of my life. I joined Key Club in high school and worked in my school and on the district board for New York and those experiences gave me the chance to do service and to give others a gateway to do service, and those experiences are still a huge part of what drives me to do service today.