Abigail Munzig

• 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.

• 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)

• (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

• (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)

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 (stabilizing to prevent ripping an artery)
• Identifying and treating heat stroke
• Identifying and treating hypothermia
• Identifying the type of bleeding (capillary, venous, arterial) 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 (heart rate, respiratory rate, level of consciousness/alertness, reacting/dilating pupils, skin signs, temperature)
• Identifying and treating strains, sprains and fractures (open and closed)
• Building and applying an effective makeshift splint
• Checking circulation, sensation and motor function
• Gathering patient information (chief complaint, allergies, medications, previous pertinent medical history, last input/output, events leading up to crisis)
• Identifying stages of shock (compensated, decompensated, irreversible)
• Identifying and treating types of shock (cardiogenic, hypovolemic, neurogenic)
• Making a makeshift c-collar for patients with suspected spinal cord injury
• Test on patient to clear the c-spine
• Identifying and treating 1st degree, 2nd degree and 3rd degree frostbite
• Identifying and treating 1st degree, 2nd degree and 3rd degree burns
• Removing ticks and treating tick bites
• Removing stingers and treating stings/insect bites
• Identifying and treating infections
• Treating snake bites / protocol
• 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, lightning protocol

• 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

• 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

• 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')

• Packaging and delivering dinners to the local homeless shelter and serving plates to people at the shelter

• 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

• 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

• Starting midfielder
• The only freshman on varsity my freshman year
• arrive to boarding school 1 week early from spring break for pre-season each year (clinics, drills, team meetings, games before actual season starts)
• attending all away games and home games during the season
• Announcing upcoming games to school

• 4 hour rehearsals every Sunday plus 1 or 2 hour rehearsals multiple nights a week
• Memorizing songs
• Taking accent/dialect coaching to prepare for my role
• Dress rehearsals and tech week soon to come before opening night in February

• Memorizing songs and lines
• Rehearsals
• Dress rehearsals and tech week before opening night