Designing systems for stronger teams and wider access

Member, Red Key Athlete Honor Society

Selected as a member of Cornell’s Red Key Athlete Honor Society, which recognizes student-athletes for leadership, integrity, and commitment to their teams and the broader community.

• Engage in service initiatives across Cornell and the Greater Ithaca community.
• Build connections with fellow student-athlete leaders through leadership and service work.
• Represent the link between athletic excellence, integrity, and community commitment.

Black Student Empowerment Ambassador

Serve as an ambassador for Black Student Empowerment at Cornell, helping plan and promote programs that support student confidence, belonging, and professional growth. Help lead initiatives like Polished for Success, focused on personal branding, networking, and free professional headshots for students.

• Help organize professional development programming that makes branding, networking, and confidence-building feel accessible.
• Support outreach and event execution for Polished for Success and related student-facing initiatives.
• Contribute to programming that connects belonging with concrete career preparation.

Professional Development Chair, Men of Color in Athletics

Designing career programming, alumni engagement, speaker events, and opportunity systems for student-athletes of color.

• Build programming that connects student-athlete belonging with concrete career preparation.
• Coordinate alumni engagement and speaker event ideas that make opportunity easier to access.
• Strengthen the bridge between athletics, leadership, and long-term career readiness.

VP of External Affairs, SWAG & Nigerian Students Association

Building partnerships, strengthening campus connections, and expanding community-facing programming.

• Lead external outreach and partnership conversations that expand organizational visibility across campus.
• Support collaboration planning with other student groups, partners, and event stakeholders.
• Use communications and relationship-building to turn community interest into real participation.

Co-Vice President, CUTF Spiked Shoe Society

Selected to serve as Co-Vice President of the CUTF Spiked Shoe Society for the 2026–2027 school year. The role supports leadership, tradition, and service within Cornell Track & Field/Cross Country.

• Support the Co-Presidents and executive board with meeting minutes, attendance, event planning, and team communication.
• Proposed Lineage Bingo to turn a low-participation mentorship structure into shared experiences with visible follow-through.
• Helped explore informal track-center office hours where younger athletes could ask about resumes, internships, academics, and career paths.

Teaching Assistant, Sustainability in Athletics

Helped shape fall course programming, support a transition toward a two-credit format, and build a guest-speaker pipeline connecting sustainability with professional sports.

• Supported speaker outreach and scheduling, including a confirmed discussion with a Philadelphia Eagles sustainability leader.
• Helped coordinate follow-up with additional sports sustainability practitioners.
• Contributed to planning around course structure, timing, speaker preparation, and available honoraria funding.

Member, Arts & Sciences Academic Integrity Hearing Board

Serve on Cornell’s Arts & Sciences Academic Integrity Hearing Board, helping review academic integrity cases and uphold community standards within the college.

• Contribute to fair decision-making and careful policy interpretation.
• Support a thoughtful accountability process grounded in community standards.

NCAA Division I Track & Field Student-Athlete

Compete as a Division I sprinter while balancing varsity athletics with a rigorous academic schedule in Information Science and Sociology.

• Develop discipline, time management, teamwork, and leadership through high-performance training and competition.
• Helped plan a proposed Track Team Olympics for roughly 120–140 athletes across six mixed-event teams, with nine competitive and team-building events.

DC Education Research Collaborative | Advisory Committee

Bring a recent-DCPS-graduate perspective to a research-practice partnership serving DC education. Participated in advisory review of active studies on math acceleration and career and technical education outcomes, plus discussions on bylaws, governance, and the five-year research agenda.

Cyber AI Program | Client-Side Mentor

Served as the fictional client representative for high school consulting teams designing an AI-enabled sports-media solution. Asked probing questions, challenged assumptions, clarified requirements, and gave honest feedback without solving the case for students.

Youth Policy Dinner with Oye Owolewa’s Team

Co-organized a small dinner convened by Oye Owolewa’s team, with David leading the discussion. Helped bring DC young people into a practical conversation about housing, jobs, education, safety, transportation, political participation, and a proposed youth council.

Mikva Challenge DC | Student Voice Council

Represented student perspectives on issues affecting schools and communities through advocacy, dialogue, and civic engagement work. Collaborated with peers and adult leaders to elevate youth voice in conversations about public education and policy.

From Student Voice to Systems Change

Built early experience framing problems, adapting messages, and staying close to implementation through student advocacy conducted with peers and adult partners. The story does not claim sole authorship of district policy.

McKinley Tech Debate Team

Founded and led McKinley Tech's debate team, building it into a competitive and respected student organization. Recruited and mentored members, coached newer debaters, and helped lead the team to regional and national recognition.