Abigail Munzig
Atherton,CA
Summary
Dynamic leader with proven success as Head of Youth Advisory Board at Stanford University's PLEDGE Program, where I am developing a nationwide curriculum on gun safety and hosting a podcast. Skilled in public speaking and critical thinking, I effectively engage diverse audiences and foster collaboration, driving impactful initiatives that enhance community awareness and education.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Submitted Proposal Writer for News Decoder
12.2025 - Current
- Submitted a proposal for an article on youth's perspective on America's gun violence crisis
- Conducting interviews and research to expand my article
- Working alongside my Honors US History Teacher to develop my idea
JV Soccer Captain
The Thacher School
12.2025 - Current
- Creating practice drills
- Leading team dynamic warm-ups in unison
- Organizing and leading a 'captain's practice' once a week
- Liason between team and coaches and team and referees in games
- Announcing upcoming games to school
- Greeting opposing team captains and coaches and doing the coin-toss at the start of games on behalf of the team
- Explaining the game to my teammates
- Leading cheers
- Overall encouragement of the team
Class President
09.2025 - Current
- President of my junior class (and therefore member of student council)
- Weekly student council meetings
- Make announcements at school assemblies
- Manage the financial budget for class events
- Plan, organize, and advertise class events
- Send out forms to my class regarding suggestions, mental health check-ins, etc.
- Report to the dean of students on behalf of my class
- Run our school's weekly 'Snack Bar' on Thursday nights (managing food order forms, budgeting, playing music, sending out weekly emails, handing out treats)
Writer and editor
11.2024 - Current
- Writing, editing and publishing articles for school newspaper
- Conducting research and interviews
- Editing other writer's articles before publishing
- (Wrote a long article on the legalities of the consequences for parents of a child who committed gun violence/a mass shooting)
- Running the instagram page for the school newspaper
- Conducting live interviews with athletes, band members and dancers and compiling them in videos for the afternoon program wrap-up articles and instagram page videos
Student Diversity Leadership Council
The Thacher School
09.2024 - Current
- (head of my school's Student Disability Union Affinity Group)
- Serve on the Student Diversity Leadership Council weekly among other affinity group heads.
- Began 'Dessert Discussions;' subgroups within SDU of people with a shared learning/personality/physical disability to have a space each semester to gather, address discussion questions and share dessert with one another (ex: ADHD Dessert Discussion, Bipolar Disorder Dessert Discussion, etc.)
- Researching national days/months (ADHD awareness month, national diabetes awareness day, national dyslexia week etc.) and organizing events surrounding them with the community
- Offering a confidential open space for neurodivergent students on campus to ask for advice, support, etc., (trained to do so)
- Managing the financial budget for fundraisers/events
- Planning and organizing fundraisers/events
- Leading the annual September National Suicide Prevention Month Walk in Ventura
- Reaching out to impactful neurodivergent speakers to come to campus and give a lecture to the community
Head of Youth Advisory Board and podcast host
Stanford University
06.2024 - Current
- During my summers, I work at PLEDGE in person at Stanford researching data, giving presentations and attending lectures regarding firearm violence prevention and pediatric trauma/medicine.
- Throughout the entire year, I write and edit scripts for the student-written, voiced and lead podcast I started at PLEDGE that will be released in the near future.
- I contact gun violence survivors and other speakers to host on the podcast, record episodes in the studio, and work with the other students on the Youth Advisory board.
- Additionally, I am currently working with other PLEDGE members to develop a nation-wide curriculum to roll out in public and private schools regarding gun safety and gun violence awareness - this includes a 'toolkit' for how students can begin their own PLEDGE 'chapters' at their schools, a parent toolkit, links, and general education.
Member
09.2023 - Current
- Packaging and delivering dinners to the local homeless shelter and serving plates to people at the shelter
Elected EAC Class Representative
09.2024 - 06.2025
- Began an initiative to reduce campus litter and to get more people to recycle at my school by creating basketball hoops for the recycling bins (only a week after the basketball hoops were installed on the lids of recycling bins, the data was measured and there was 2x more things recycled, and less observed litter around campus)
- Started a Local Produce Initiative for the dorm by starting a garden in the dorm with produce like carrots, mint, strawberries, and cilantro and then worked with the dining hall program to incorporate it in dishes
- Organized an-all school beach cleanup at our local beach
- Weekly meetings with Heads of EAC and other grade's representatives
- Made weekly announcements to the whole school regarding water conservation, food waste, energy conservation, deforestation, pollution, etc.
- Led the Blue Cup Challenge at my school with other EAC reps (a school-wide water conservation challenge/competition between all the dorms with activities/opportunities throughout the week to earn 'Blue Cup Challenge Points')
Elected Wellness Ambassador/Representative
09.2024 - 06.2025
- (elected wellness representative for my grade) - organizing and setting up wellness-program sponsored events
- Making announcements regarding mental health
- Offering a confidential space for members of the community to relay messages to adults or to seek advice or support (trained to do so)
Captain
09.2024 - 11.2024
- Creating practice drills
- Leading team dynamic warm-ups in unison
- Organizing and leading a 'captain's practice' once a week
- Liason between team and coaches and team and referees in games
- Announcing upcoming games to school
- Formally greeting opposing team captains and coaches at the start of games
- Explaining the game to my teammates
- Leading cheers
- Overall encouragement of the team
Lead Role
04.2024 - 06.2024
- Memorizing songs and lines
- Rehearsals
- Dress rehearsals and tech week before opening night
Skills
- Proper bedside manners
- Calling for help
- Delegating roles for first responder team
- Determining mechanism of injury/illness
- Checking for obstructed airways using head tilt chin lift and jaw thrust techniques
- Listening for breathing
- Checking circulation / finding a pulse on carotid artery
- Identifying and treating spinal cord injury
- Stabilizing a patient with a possible spinal cord injury
- Identifying and treating a broken femur
- Identifying and treating heat stroke
- Identifying and treating hypothermia
- Identifying the type of bleeding and treating accordingly
- Applying a combat application tourniquet
- Building and applying a makeshift tourniquet
- Packing an arterial bleed/wound on trunk of body
- Taking vital signs without equipment
- Identifying and treating strains, sprains and fractures
- Building and applying an effective makeshift splint
- Checking circulation, sensation and motor function
- Gathering patient information
- Identifying stages of shock
- Identifying and treating types of shock
- Making a makeshift c-collar for patients with suspected spinal cord injury
- Test on patient to clear the c-spine
- Identifying and treating frostbite
- Identifying and treating burns
- Removing ticks and treating tick bites
- Removing stingers and treating stings/insect bites
- Identifying and treating infections
- Treating snake bites
- Protocol/ treating amputated/severed limbs
- Treating puncture wounds, impaled objects, flap avulsion, contusions, abrasions
- Identifying and treating asthma
- Treating chest pain
- CPR
- Identifying and treating anaphylaxis/anaphylactic shock
- Administering epinephrine/epi-pens
- Saving an individual drowning
- Treating an unconscious, drowned patient
- Treating patient struck by lightning
- Public speaking
- Team leadership
- Critical thinking
- Strategic thinking
- Organizational skills
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Resourcefulness
- Task prioritization
- Active listening
- Attention to detail
- Effective communication
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Decision-making
- Conflict resolution
- Proposal writing
- Professionalism
Certification
Wilderness First Aid Certification 2026
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Submitted Proposal Writer for News Decoder
12.2025 - Current
JV Soccer Captain
The Thacher School
12.2025 - Current
Class President
09.2025 - Current
Writer and editor
11.2024 - Current
Student Diversity Leadership Council
The Thacher School
09.2024 - Current
Elected EAC Class Representative
09.2024 - 06.2025
Elected Wellness Ambassador/Representative
09.2024 - 06.2025
Captain
09.2024 - 11.2024
Head of Youth Advisory Board and podcast host
Stanford University
06.2024 - Current
Lead Role
04.2024 - 06.2024
Member
09.2023 - Current