Anabel, spent the 2024-2025 academic year volunteering at the ReUse Center in Downtown Ithaca where she processes large volumes of second-hand items to be sold at an extreme discount. The ReUse center’s two-pronged mission is to provide resources for waste-reduction, by promoting underconsumption through the refurbishment and re-sale of gently used items, as well as to provide employment opportunities to community members who have previously encountered barriers to employment. On campus, Anabel is the Treasurer of both the First-Generation Organization and I.C. Stand-Up Comedy Club. She also works as a front desk agent at the Ithaca College Office of Facilities, and as culinary assistant in our Terraces Dining Hall. While I hope to go to Law School, I am also an Officer Candidate for the Marine Corps Judge Advocate Guard (JAG). JAG is responsible for all legal representation of American Servicemembers and often in the international relations on U.S. bases overseas, which is my area of interest in my legal studies at IC.
In my mind, being a Martin Luther King scholar means you’re willing (and able) to roll up your sleeves and do the work. Dr. King did not idle or confine his dreams for this country to his preaching; he offered both body and mind to his community while inspiring masses to do the same. To be an MLK scholar is to dare to be a unifying voice, or at least, a commanding presence on social justice.