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]]>Couleecap Inc., Downtown Mainstreet Inc., La Crosse County, the La Crosse Area Development Corporation, and North La Crosse Business Association partnered to create the Launch La Crosse Small Business Recovery Fund to assist small businesses in central commercial districts.
The grant fund was launched with about $100,000 in private donations, fueled by contributions from Wells Fargo, Dave and Barb Skogen, The Weber Group, Gail, Kristine and Sandra Cleary, State Bank Financial, Three Sixty Real Estate Solutions, Kwik Trip and Associated Bank.
The fund was started to help address the significant and immediate financial need facing area small business owners amid the growing public health concern, including business closings and changing market conditions.
“Many small business owners operate on extremely thin margins under normal conditions, so we knew there would be an immense need for financial support,” said Aaron Reimler, a business and income developer for Couleecap. “We’re extremely grateful for the donors who stepped up to help, allowing us get this program off the ground and start getting funds to small business owners as quickly as possible.”
In order to continue to support the program and work toward expanding eligibility, partner organizations are seeking private donations and funders to assist in continuing to support this fund.
These funds are being mobilized locally to help respond to financial gaps and provide relief with a quick turnaround time.
“Due to the unprecedented and quickly evolving nature of the circumstances surrounding this pandemic, we’re going a little beyond our usual methods to help our community try and weather this storm,” Reimler said. “We recognize that the financial need for our small business community will continue to remain significant and that these local resources can provide a lifeline, which is why we are asking for the community’s help”, said Robin Mosses, executive director of Downtown Mainstreet. “As a community we can make a difference in the future survival of our businesses.”
Contributions can be made at Couleecap.org/business-recovery or by sending a check to Couleecap Inc. at 201 Melby St., Westby, WI 54667 with “Launch La Crosse” written in the memo line.
“Many small business owners operate on extremely thin margins under normal conditions, so we knew there would be an immense need for financial support.” Aaron Reimler, a business and income developer for Couleecap.
Grant recipients
Here is a list of businesses that have received grants through June 30:
- Amanda’s Academy of Dance
- Audiolust Records
- Cannabiz Depot
- David Reay’s
- Diggers
- Dublin Square
- Fat Porcupine
- Full Circle Supply
- Games People Play
- Generous Earth Pottery
- Handmade Natural Beauty
- La Crosse Escape Room
- Lovechild
- Lush Salon
- Marge’s On Rose
- Mind Altering Tattoo
- Monet Floral
- Mueller Photography
- Pickermans
- Pla Mor Lanes
- Twisted Skull
- UnWine’d
- Weber Center for the Performing Arts
- Willow Boutique
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]]>The fund is intended to help businesses that are struggling with closures or reduced operational capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Couleecap, Inc., Downtown Mainstreet Inc., La Crosse County, La Crosse Area Development Corp. and North La Crosse Business Association announced the Launch La Crosse Small Business Recovery Fund, which will provide grants up to $5,000 to small, locally owned retail, restaurant or personal businesses with between one and 20 employees.
In addition to grants, businesses applying to the fund will be connected to resources to aid in planning for sustainability and adjusting to new economic conditions. Resources will offer help for web-based marketing, setting up online stores and planning recovery goals.
Couleecap, DMI and partners will offer resources that range from one-time webinars to multi-week educational programs that are delivered virtually by trained facilitators.
“We understand that there are many people at various levels of this growing relief infrastructure that are working to deliver financial resources to struggling small businesses,” said Aaron Reimler, Couleecap business and income developer. “We also understand there is a significant need and financial gaps that will continue to remain, and that we need to be able to react quickly to those gaps as they emerge.”
Applications for the fund will be reviewed weekly by a grant committee. Awards will be made each week as long as funds remain available.
According to program organizers, federal COVID-19 stimulus packages provide resources to support businesses, but these resources have had limited eligibility and high nationwide demand, preventing many smaller businesses from participating.
Sole proprietors, micro-enterprises, and other small businesses may not be eligible for government assistance due to their limited size and the complex nature of the application process.
The program is being initiated with grants from Wells Fargo, Associated Bank and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., along with contributions from Three Sixty Real Estate Solutions LLC, The Weber Group, Dave and Barb Skogen and Kwik Trip.
To maintain the program, organizers are seeking additional donations to help build and sustain this fund. Privately raised funds will go directly to assisting small businesses in La Crosse County.
For application information or to donate, visit www.couleecap.org/business-recovery. For more information, contact Reimler at 608-797-5746 or [email protected], or Robin Moses, at 608-784-0440 or [email protected].
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Character Lives, a program of Coulee Region Whole Child, is sponsoring the training to promote social-emotional skills and servant leadership in area high schools.
The curriculum can be integrated into existing classes or offered as a separate class.
John Norlin, a Seattle educator and co-creator of Character Strong, the curriculum on which Character Lives is based, will lead the training.
The training will introduce a model to become the bedrock for educators in western Wisconsin, along with techniques to improve student attitudes and school climates.
Advocates of a character-building curriculum for Coulee Region high schools made superintendents an offer they couldn’t refuse — so they didn’…
Coulee Region Whole Child founders include Festival Foods board chairman Dave Skogen and his wife, Barb; Misty Lown, owner of Misty’s Dance Unlimited in Onalaska; Marvin Wanders, CEO of Three Sixty Real Estate Solutions; and Patrick Clements, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel.
Studies have demonstrated that programs such as Character Lives boost academic performance; lower stress and help prevent mental illness; prevent negative behaviors such as drug use, violence and bullying; and equip students with soft skills, including communication needed for workplace success and self-management.
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]]>That’s the introduction Festival Foods board chairman Dave Skogen gave to more than 50 business and community leaders and educators during a presentation Wednesday about a leadership curriculum for area high schools. It also was the wind-up for a pitch for pledges totaling $600,000 spread over three years to pay for the program.
Skogen and his wife, Barb, had considered the idea of a leadership training academy, along with Misty Lown, owner of Misty’s Dance Unlimited in Onalaska, and Marvin Wanders, CEO of Three Sixty Real Estate Solutions, Skogen said.
They suggested to superintendents that the former Festival support center in Onalaska, which has been vacant since moving to its new building in Onalaska, could serve as a potential site for the academy, Skogen explained.
“They said, ‘We’re not interested in busing students to your building,’” Skogen said, eliciting chuckles. “But we like the idea of a leadership academy.’”
One of the driving forces behind the effort to develop a servant leader-minded workforce was a 2013 survey in which more than 700 employers said they had trouble finding recent grads to hire because, although technically competent, the applicants lacked communication, adaptability, decision-making and problems-solving skills they would need for the jobs.
Thus was born the Character Lives curriculum, a leadership training initiative that was launched this semester in 21 area high schools, along with training for 60 teachers and administrators. The group brought in John Norlin, co-creator of the CharacterStrong curriculum on which Character Lives is based, to introduce students to the concept and train teachers.
Part of the $600,000 fundraising proceeds will be used to pay Norlin, a teacher, motivational speaker and leadership consultant from Sumner, Wash. Norlin has come to the region regularly, and the Character Lives team has a goal to train another 120 teachers and administrators by May.
Attesting to the training’s value was Annie Skogen, a senior at Onalaska High School and second cousin to Dave Skogen, who said students are learning the need to develop relationships, the potential of positive use of influence and the necessity to build a sense of community.
Pinpointing a person who had influenced her, Annie said, “I realized my first-grade teacher still influences me — 12 years later.”
Also a member of the Character Lives team is Patrick Clements, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel who is part of the Coulee Region Whole Child Initiative with Skogen and others.
The initiative strives to teach life skills and cultivate a culture of character, said Clements, who is president of Clements Management Consulting.
Norlin also addressed the lunch group, saying, “Research is not just suggesting — but it’s showing — that, if we teach students only for test scores, that is only one-third to one-half of what they need.”
Holding a cell phone aloft, Norlin said, “Students can engage in five different conversations on six different platforms” on the device, but many are lost when it comes to a face-to-face conversation.
“If you ask them to meet someone and talk, it’s like a death sentence,” he said.
“We are built to be relational, but we are more isolated than ever before,” in part because of the tech disconnect, Norlin said.
Character Lives, which hews to the servant leadership model imbued in the Coulee Region, espouses the mantra, “To Lead is To Serve.” It teaches students to relate to each other and develop character, the foundation for improving the community and the world, he said.
Schools that don’t know how to achieve that simply assign the task to community service hours that don’t necessarily convey the reasons, Norlin said.
“We want to create citizens who want to give back because they know the why,” he said.
While happiness often is cited as the goal for life, “we need to stop living for happiness and live with a clear sense of purpose,” he said.
Norlin scoffed at the slogan that leaders are born, not made, saying that applies to only a precious few, “and it lets everybody else off the hook. We all have influence — we all have skin in this.”
As society has moved away from a culture of character to one of personality, it has lost the sense of caring for each other, he said.
“Personality is a gift,” he said. “Character is a habit.”
Saluting the Character Lives team, Norlin also said, “This community is behind this work” of building character and leaders unlike any other he has encountered.
The next step is to provide the financial base for the training, Wanders said, encouraging attendees to fill out pledge cards with amounts ranging from $300 over three year, dubbed the “Support a Teacher Level,” to the $60,000 platinum benchmark for corporate sponsorship.
More information on Character Lives is available at its web site. Contributions may be sent to Character Lives at P.O. Box 609, La Crosse, WI 56402.
“We want to create citizens who want to give back because they know the why.” John Norlin, co-creator of the CharacterStrong curriculum on which Character Lives is based
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]]>“Everyone kind of had their own journey and came to where they are in a different way,” said Reinart, development director for the YWCA La Crosse. “But all of them have made an impact and touched many lives.”
On Thursday, each will share a few words about their inspirations and aspirations at the 34th annual Tribute to Outstanding Women on Thursday at the La Crosse Center.
About 30 adults and students were nominated for the honor by friends, family, teachers and colleagues, with a committee of community members making the final decision.
“We really focus on how these individuals live the mission of YWCA La Crosse — eliminating racism, empowering women, mentoring and advocating, with well-rounded, balanced lives,” Reinart said. “We look at this event as an evening to celebrate theses women who are doing amazing work. It’s unique to have an entire event centered around honoring women — as women we don’t celebrate ourselves, we’re not taught to do that.”
Young participants in YWCA’s programs will be guests at the program, a valuable opportunity to gain exposure to strong female role models, encourage them to focus on the future and inspire them to become outstanding women themselves.
“This (honor) is a big deal,” Reinart said. “The response is this means a lot to the honorees, and is something that will remain kind of a highlight in their lifetime.”
Susan Hessel: Trailblazer
Historian, award-winning writer and former reporter Sue Hessel has nominated others as Outstanding Women, never expecting a nomination herself. But her own ambition, perseverance and unfailing positivity haven’t gone unnoticed, leading Sheila Garrity and Maureen Freedland, among others, to submit her name for the 2017 Trailblazer award.
“A trailblazer does what she can, where she is, with what she has. That’s Sue Hessel,” Garrity said. “This community is fortunate to have her among us.”
Hessel, 65, spent decades making a name for herself in the La Crosse community, through both her powerful prose and strength in the light of trials and tragedy, including the loss of her eldest child to leukemia and the return of her own cancer.
“I always say the cancer is too serious not to laugh,” said Hessel, who has stage four breast cancer. “For me, finding humor in everything has been critical throughout my life. … I always say in an unlucky category of life, I’m really lucky.”
Writing was an early passion for Hessel, who started her writing career at the La Crosse Tribune in 1974, inspired by a quest for truth in the wake of Watergate. During her decade at the paper, she covered government and human interest stories, including many articles about local children battling life-threatening diseases. Years later, she recounted her many interviews in “Bald is Beautiful: Living With Childhood Cancer,” on behalf of the Shining Stars Foundation.
Hessel left the Tribune to focus on freelance writing when her son Matt was diagnosed with leukemia. He died at age 9. Hessel and her husband have ensured his legacy lives on through the Matt Hessel-Mial Creative Writing Contest through the school district of La Crosse and the publication of his short stories, the proceeds from which are donated to the La Crosse Public Education Foundation.
“You have to find a way to do something positive with your energy,” said Hessel, who has also found solace in volunteering with organizations including the St. Clare Health Mission, U.S. Holocaust Museum, La Crosse Storytelling Festival. She offers support to other women with cancer through her writing, encouraging them to do the same.
“She inspires her many readers almost daily with her essays on Facebook about gratitude, family, humorous observations about life and serious political issues,” Freedland said. “Hundreds of people follow her because she brings clarity to issues that seem so incomprehensible.”
Hessel, who has published several books and countless articles, remains a sought after freelance writer due to her empathy, meticulous research and genuine interest in the stories of others. As La Crosse’s first professional personal historian, she has captured the histories of Gundersen Clinic, the Dahl Family, Courtesy Corp. and the city of La Crosse. She has recorded the stories of a concentration camp survivor, member of the resistance in World War II and local activist, June Kjome, 96, whom Hessels calls a personal inspiration.
“(Kjome said) ‘silence is the same as assent.’ That really rattled around in me,” Hessel said.
Hessel has never shied from sharing her voice, particularly in regard to immigration, universal health care and issues of “human decency,” particularly in the current divisive political climate.
“I’m a Jewish woman, and I stand with Muslim women,” Hessel said. “I just speak up and try to have conversations with people who aren’t just like me. I’m a smart alec, I try to be funny, but I’m just trying to make the world better. And man, that’s a challenge these days, but we have to do that. … We need to support each other, stand together, write letters, make phone calls and try to tell your story.”
Hessel says she has found fulfillment in writing, but her greatest joy is her family.
“The best item on my life’s resume are my kids,” Hessel said. “They’ve shown themselves to be really good human beings.”
Marlis O’Brien: Health
Marlis O’Brien was 20 when she took a job as a respiratory therapist at Mayo Clinic Health System, and for the past 28 years she has continued to be an advocate for patients suffering from asthma while facilitating life saving CPR and advanced life support training courses as Training Center Coordinator.
“Asthma that is out of control has a profound impact on the quality of people’s lives, and it is a disease that in many cases is very treatable and controllable,” said O’Brien, a member of the La Crosse Asthma Coalition. “I realized that a little bit of education in the right environment could have a tremendous impact on people.”
O’Brien has helped supply schools in 12 area districts, churches and squad cars with chamber spacers used to deliver asthma treatments and defibrillators. She volunteers at St. Clare Health Mission, providing free respiratory services, serves with the American Lung Association, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, Wisconsin Asthma Coalition and is on the board of Horse Sense for Special Riders. O’Brien advocates for her son, Erik, who has a neurotransmitter deficiency and aspires to make the community more inclusive to everyone.
“I would love to see a facility that can meet the needs of those who are different and offers the same options of higher education, recreational, physical, and spiritual support that normal developing people have access to,” O’Brien said.
She dedicates her honor to God, her son, her employer and co-workers and the many people who have helped with Erik’s care.
Elizabeth Kruck: Activist
Elizabeth Kruck knows change takes work, and she’s not afraid to get her hands dirty. After three decades as an educator in Racine, working with students with learning disabilities, Kruch is spending her retirement inspiring and enacting progress in the fields of immigration, conservation, health care reform, social justice, equal pay and voters rights.
“It’s important for women to take an active role in voting and policies because policy decisions affect their lives now and in the future,” Kruck said. “Women who don’t get locked into ideological bubbles and corners can listen and communicate with understanding of different abilities, experiences, thinking styles and information levels and sources of information (which) can help bridge political divides.”
Kruck is a member of La Crosse chapter of the American Association of University Women and League of Women Voters, and mentors through the UW-L Self Sufficiency Program. She uses every project and experience as a chance to learn from others and challenge herself.
“I’m inspired by the many people who work tirelessly for fair and equitable policies that help everybody succeed,” Kruck said. “I’m prompted to speak out with the realization that the things I care about … don’t just happen. Gains that have been made in the past came about with the hard work and courageous efforts of women and men who came before me. With complacency, these gains are lost and we go backward.”
Sarah Coleman: Social Justice
During her 23 years at Central High School, Sarah Coleman had an impact not just on her special education students but on the entire school. An advocate for diversity education and students of all abilities, Coleman made strides to promote understanding and acceptance across the student body and faculty, organizing events and programs including for Humanity Awareness Week, Diversity Day, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolence Project and Unlearning Racism groups.
“Sarah has been one of La Crosse’s unsung change makers, working with and through our youth and educators to help prepare them to interact, live and strive in an ever changing multicultural society,” said Thomas Harris, interim director of the UW-L Office of Multicultural Student Services.
“It’s important to learn history — all the history,” Coleman said. “I think (diversity education) makes the students better people when they have knowledge of their own culture and the culture of others. They become aware that they are a part of a much larger world than just La Crosse.”
Coleman also volunteers at St. Clare Health Mission and organizes African Drum Circles at area middle schools. She names her students, daughter, Kalista, and her grandmother-in-law as her inspirations, and she says she is “extremely humbled” to be an Outstanding Woman.
Robyn Tanke: Nonprofit
For 25 years Robyn R. Tanke has proven a dedicated, passionate and influential employee of the Gundersen Medical Foundation, where she serves as chief development officer, helping raise millions for health care research.
In her late teens, Tanke was a wife and mother, juggling a full-time job, college and trying to break into a then predominantly male field of work. She studied hard, joined the Association of Fundraising Professionals and sought out both male and female mentors to help her succeed. Among her greatest accomplishments is collaborating to raise $3.5 million through Gundersen’s Steppin’ Out in Pink program.
“We believe strongly that we will only find cures for diseases like breast cancer through research and advocacy,” Tanke said. “Steppin’ Out in Pink brought passionate advocates together to champion for a great cause.”
Championing causes is more than a career for Tanke, who devotes much of her free time to volunteering with the La Crosse Community Theatre and United Fund for the Arts and Humanities along with mentoring students at Hamilton Elementary School. She plans to retire in late 2018 and says being recognized for her commitment and success is “exceptionally meaningful to me.”
“I gave this career everything I had and was happy to do so. I have become a better person having served in this role. … I hope every young woman, starting out against the odds, finds happiness and success as I have.”
Michelle Wanders: Business
Three Sixty Real Estate Solutions is more than a business for Michelle Wanders — it’s a portal to community revitalization. As co-owner of Three Sixty, Wanders spearheads housing and commercial projects, including the restoration and re purposing of historic downtown buildings and the construction of attractive student housing, while helping secure safe and affordable housing for low-income individuals through her work with the Collaborative to End Homelessness. On behalf of Three Sixty, Wanders sponsors and makes donations to organizations including the Family and Children’s Center, CouleeCap, Boys and Girls Club, and the Salvation Army, where she serves on the advisory board.
“We are truly a community of givers, be it of our time in volunteering or our treasurers in giving,” Wanders said. “I am so proud to be part of this community that has inspired me to look to ways I can contribute more.”
Wanders makes sure to find balance in her busy life by establishing personal priorities, starting with the things that have the greatest impact and letting the little things wait. She hopes to instill perseverance, servitude, and a strong sense of self in her daughters, and stresses that in a world of instant gratification, patience pays off and hard work is the best reward, though being named an Outstanding Woman is a nice bonus.
“You could have tipped me over with a feather,” Wanders says of the honor. “I have been completely humbled by the nomination … to be in the company of such a great group of women is such an honor.”
Colleen Dixon: Volunteer
When Colleen Dixon’s daughters joined 4-H, Girl Scouts, and softball, she signed on, too, as leader and coach. When their school needed a yearbook editor and a Band Booster president, she raised her hand.
“I felt that I would have a better connection with each of them by being involved in their school and community lives,” Dixon said. “I wanted to be the type of parent that said ‘yes.’”
Dixon rarely turns down an opportunity to serve, lending her time to school functions and fundraisers, co-chairing the Minds in Motion Bike Tour and working with hearing impaired students. She currently works at the UW-L ACCESS Center, helping people with Down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy and vision impairment.
“I have learned … about the invisible disabilities that often go unnoticed but yet have such a devastating effect on students,” Dixon said. “I’ve learned how important it is to treat each person respectfully as an individual as you never know what kinds of issues they may be dealing with.”
Dixon encourages other women to dive in when they find a cause they are excited about.
“No organization turns away a willing and eager volunteer. Figure out what tools you can bring … or just bring your enthusiasm.”
Marcie Wycoff-Horn: Education
Of choosing a career in education, Marcie Wycoff-Horn says, “Who wouldn’t want to have the opportunity to empower people, inspire ideas and create change?”
Wycoff-Horn does all three on a daily basis as UW-L’s dean of the School of Education, a position she has held since 2015 after previous positions as professor and director of the School of Education. Wycoff-Horn has taken strides to implement diversity education and global learning through international partnerships, including with sister city Luoyang, China, and assisted with the Grow Our Own Teacher Diversity Program.
“The goal of a better society and world is to embrace the complexities and opportunities that diversity offers. A more equitable society begins with every parent speaking empowering words to their child. It continues with teachers, role models, neighbors, mentors, etc,” said Wycoff-Horn, who herself mentors female students and faculty members and aspiring teachers.
“(As) a mentor I am a leader and a role model who is encouraging others to be confident, aim high, and reach for the stars until their goals are met or surpassed,” Wycoff-Horn said. “In turn, as a mentor I strive for more, and it has pushed me to be an even greater advocate and champion for women of all backgrounds.”
Wycoff-Horn calls her Outstanding Woman honor a validation of the combined efforts of herself, the university and the community.
Jerilyn Dinsmoor: Posthumous
When Jerilyn Dinsmoor took a job, she didn’t care about the paycheck — she cared about the impact.
“The vast majority of her career was spent working in the non profit community. … It became a mission for her and that came from the heart,” said her husband, Brad Dinsmoor. “She measured her success based on the outcome of her work.”
Before her death last year, Dinsmoor served in many realms of the arts and faith communities, first as executive director of the Pump House and later for the Western Wisconsin Education Conference, along with selling her art at fairs. She later taught at First Presbyterian and First Congregational United Church of Christ, where she led service trips, and Viterbo University. Her goal was always to “open up students’ eyes to diversity issues and use the lessons to make a positive difference in the world.
“She wanted them to do something about it and not just sit on the sidelines,” Brad said.
For the last three years of her life, Dinsmoor served as executive director for La Crosse Promise, striving to reduce poverty and encourage higher education through housing grants and college scholarships.
“Through her work, passion, and creativity a visual change is occurring in a neighborhood that is proud of its diversity, civic mindedness and proximity to work and play” said Denise Vujnovich, vice president of the La Crosse Promise board. “I see Jerilyn’s smiling face in the window of every La Crosse Promise home.”
Jamie Capatillo Young Women of Tomorrow
Jamie Capatillo made the most of her undergraduate years at UW-L, where she excelled both academically and in her many social justice and cultural awareness pursuits. Capatillo, who served as co-chair of ALANA (Asian, Latina, African, Native American Women), recognized many of her Latina classmates missed communicating in Spanish, enjoying traditional foods and spending time with family, and co-created Mujeres Orgullosas, a social support group for UW-L students, later expanding it into the Latina Outreach Mentoring Program for high school students in Arcadia.
During her work in the Campus Climate office, Capatillo organized social justice workshops and tutored. She helped produce the student documentary “Inclusive Negligence: Helping Educators Address Racial Inequality at UW-L,” and participated in “Awareness Through Performance,” taking to the stage to foster recognition and spark conversation regarding diversity and justice issues affecting colleges nation wide. In 2016, she received the UW-L College of Liberal Studies Recognition of Excellence Award in the undergraduate Ethnic and Racial studies category.
Capatillo currently works as a graduate assistant in the Higher Education and Student Affairs Masters Program at the University of San Francisco, overseeing a literacy skills tutoring program for K-3 students.
Emma Harlan: Young Women of Tomorrow
Emma Harlan doesn’t wait for opportunities — she finds them. The ambitious Onalaska High School senior reached out the Lugar de Reunion Hispanic community resource center last year, offering to tutor ESL students, and has recruited fellow classmates to do the same.
“I would have never started teaching ESL if I hadn’t searched beyond the bounds of my community for a pocket of need that I felt passionate about,” Harlan said. “… My advice for teens looking to become more involved in their community is to think of a topic you are passionate about, and don’t stop searching for an opportunity to get involved in that area until you find something.”
Harlans ambition and vigor are evident in many aspects of her life. A talented vocalist, harpist and bass player, she volunteers at Life in Harmony, a music program for children with special needs. She tutors in math at her own school, and is a member of Rotary Interact, leading donation drives. Last summer, she traveled to Hungary to work with teens in refugee camps.
“I can’t put into words the impact that volunteering with refugees and immigrants has had on me,” Harlan said. “It has allowed me to see just how connected our world is, and has moved my heart in ways that I can’t explain.”
Harlan, who names her mom as her inspiration, calls receiving the Young Woman of tomorrow award empowering, and knowing she is making a difference makes her want to do “more and more and more.”
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