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Testimony by Mia Lema Lindau, Student from Sadie Nash Leadership Project
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Mia Lema Lindau, a 17-year-old senior at the Heritage School, shares her transformative experience with the Sadie Nash Leadership Project. She describes how the program has empowered her, broadened her perspectives, and prepared her for real-world challenges over the past two years.
- Lindau emphasizes the importance of peer support and the sense of community fostered by Sadie Nash
- She highlights the program's role in developing her confidence, social justice awareness, and public speaking skills
- Lindau advocates for increased funding to expand the program's reach and to facilitate more in-person activities and trips
Mia Lema Lindau
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Oh, don't worry, I'm not remembering right now.
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So my name is Mia Lema Lindau.
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I've worked well, not worked, but I've been in City Nash for two years.
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I've joined my junior year.
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I'm currently 17 years old and right now a senior at the Heritage School.
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So joining Sadie Nash my junior year, I'll be honest with you, I had no idea what I was walking into.
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For starters, I didn't I was top of my school, literally at top of my school, but yet I had no foundation, like, built enough of me.
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I had no I felt like I wasn't being understood.
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I had no support personally.
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And when I joined Sadie Nash, personally, I felt like I was being supported by not just the, like, the staff members there, but also my own peers.
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I was surrounded with few people who thought like me and that were like me.
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Maybe they weren't Hispanic or my name, but they were definitely girls out there who shared the same interests, and definitely wanted to step out the whole what's that word again?
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The the whole stereotypical minority and not stepping out.
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So definitely, City Nash has taught me to step out of my comfort zone and present myself more confidently.
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They also showed me what I should stand up for.
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I didn't know what I should stand up for, but definitely, CD Nash has taught me and showed me how communities like ours don't really get a lot of support, and because of that, they led me to believe in a good social justice.
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They led me to believe in a good equal school system, which I'm a be honest, I wasn't very informative back in junior year, but now I can say I have much more information and I have more of a passion to just stand with my foot on the ground.
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And transitioning that because I enjoyed just the junior year, was like, hey, kinda wanna do it again, which is now I'm currently in Nash U in Sadie Nash.
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And like I said, all our peers will support each other, and I feel like it's a great fundings because we went to events with StarCGI.
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We did events like the City Hall 1 where I met you, and we did events like even outside of that.
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And I can say that it definitely prepared me to feel more comfortable and be confident, and not only that, they really set you up for the real world experience, which I think a lot of people should experience because I think a lot more people should join in and the funding, we need it.
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Okay?
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We need it.
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All the all the good stuff.
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Okay?
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When I tell you, all the trips that we go to, it's not just a stick of a with no foundation.
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Like, every trip has a meaning, and I feel like we should be able to join more trips.
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Not even that, for junior year, most of our courses online were most of our courses in, like, the leisure scholar was online.
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So it got to the point where even all of us were like, hey, wanna meet up in person more.
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We wanna get to know each other.
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Matter of fact, I like seeing everyone's face because that's how comfortable we are.
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So this year, now that everything is more in person, I feel like we deserve that and definitely deserve more people around because yes, it's a small group and we get to know each other, but why not make it bigger?
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Why not open everyone's eyes?
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Why limit ourselves?
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And that's all I can offer, so thank you.