Clare Venn

I'm a first-year student at Georgia studying political science and international affairs, with a passion for leadership and community service that I've carried with me from high school. In high school, I was president of Science National Honor Society for 2 years, where I led over 100 members and we volunteered at local elementary schools, hosted science fairs for them, and did speaker panels with different scientists around Columbia. I also co-founded an organization called Philanthropase, which is a nonprofit where we made a 5K charity race. Our first race benefited the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation. I was a runner all throughout high school, and we didn't have a home course even though Columbia's a very big city, so I took the initiative to find a park and map out a route, then opened it up to the whole community to run the 5K with me and raise money for charity at the same time. Now in my sorority, I'm the Director of Community Engagement, leading over 350 members in multiple service initiatives each month. Our big thing is going out to a local nursing home and doing different events with them - we had a Valentine's Day dance where our members came and hung out with the older residents and got them up and dancing, and the previous month we did a game night with them and played lots of fun card games. It was really great to include them in our community engagement.