Wittenberg University Student, Sarah White Attends Propel Ohio

2015 Nov 23

White was selected to attend Propel Ohio.

Propel Ohio is an opportunity to engage with college students on specific challenges that Ohio is currently facing, including food security, mental health and human trafficking. The program featured U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, guest speakers, and workshop facilitators discussing how college students can tackle these challenges in their communities.

“I know that I would not have been able to experience this conference would it not have been for the help of Wittenberg,” said White, who is majoring in biochemistry with a minor in philosophy. “This conference was something I felt prepared to talk about because Wittenberg has set me up with an education that has improved the way I think and learn on a broader scale than just what I need to know for my major. “Whenever other students from other schools talked about the problems they face at their colleges and cities they live in, Wittenberg and Springfield already had programs set up for that problem, so I was able to give them possible solutions,” she added.

In partnership with Ohio Campus Compact, the Corporation for National and Community Service, The Ohio State University, the GAR Foundation, University of Dayton, Print Syndicate, and the John Glenn Civic Leadership Council, Sen. Brown invited emerging student leaders from across Ohio to participate.

Tanisha Robinson, co-founder and CEO at Print Syndicate, delivered the keynote address. Other speakers included: Marilyn Tomasi from the Mid-Ohio Foodbank; Celia Williamson from the University of Toledo; Lee Dunham from the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Ohio; Michelle Decker from Rural Action; Jan Trent from Freedom a la Cart; and Quentin Monden from the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Ohio.