Nadia Kimbrough

• Co-President for a non-profit teaching elementary students (3rd-5th) about Academic Games for 1 week long during the summer.

• The students are taught Equations, Propaganda, and Onsets.

• We provide the students with camp T-shirts, snacks, and food.

• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.

• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.

• I hold decision based discussions according to Robert’s Rule of Order.

• Monthly college advising and business sessions that allow me to think as an entrepreneur and learn about finances.

• Internship Prep course to prepare us for the workforce and beyond college.

• I create and put out weekly worksheets for ninth graders to work on at our after school tutoring program: Focus on Freshmen (FoF).

• Initiated Lunch Time tutoring for freshmen and tutors who can’t stay after school.

• I monitor the tutors, who are NHS members weekly and the progress of the freshmen to see improvement in their classes.

• I was named a Joyce Ivy Scholar for the summer of 2025 in March. Joyce Ivy is an organization where they believe in young women from the Midwest should have the opportunity to advance their leadership development at pre-college programs.

• Published poetry book February 15, 2025. Hosted a book signing September 13, 2025.

• I took a course titled, “Public Discourse and the Dramatic.” Within this course I understood and learned about how people speak and think in places of deliberation through the lenses of political theory, religious studies, and race and gender studies.

• We focused on elements like performance, genre, emotion, conviction, and rhetoric.

• I worked on a virtual reality game that talked about the dangers of vaping, and helped to make it teen-friendly, along with other teenagers around the midwest and east coast.

• I took two classes: “Creating Poetry,” and “Writing on the Edge of Reality.”