About me
Introduction
Name
Bruna Laurent
School
George Mason University
Major
Government & International Politics, with a double minor in Legal Studies & Political Communication
Fun Fact
Everyone in my family has either been in the healthcare or education & public service fiield!
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How I Found the Guild
I wanted to join the Transformation Guild as soon as I saw it through my internship looking. For me, it was a great opportunity to get more hands-on research with a different nonprofit and I wanted any and all experience any non-profit would give me. There's a lot of different moving parts in how to create and continue a non-profit, so I wanted to see all the inner works.
As I go further in my college career, I've learned that I could possibly make a future career path in non-profits. Joining the Transformation Guild has helped me make that idea into a more concrete future reality.
Lessons From the Summer
Throughout this summer I've been able to develop my writing, interview, and creative skills even more.
Being a Transformation Guild intern, every single day we have to write. We write our emails, the small sections on our landing pages, the interview questions we ask, every single part of our work requires us to write. I think that everyday practice and just generally writing has helped me hone my writing skills even more.
My interview skills have been greatly developed this year, I interviewed Rick Hall's sister and his friend. Personally, I haven't really done any interviews since middle school so this was a nice refresher and space to see how will I do interviewing others. Doing those two interviews has helped with any anxiety and just overall fear I have, and now I'm confident to do more in the future.
Joining the Transformation Guild, I knew I wasn't really a creative person. I'm more analytic, more into researching and writing and breaking things down; but with the landing pages I think I was able to let go of that fear of not being creative enough. I was able to add my own small flairs into my landing pages and that has helped my confidence.
My Projects
Project Overview
G4K
The main website for G4K. Over the summer, I've been editing and developing the Hero Officials page to add more content onto this page! Specifically for this page, it's mostly just been adding more content for future Hero Officials and getting advice from my mentor on how to make the page look even better.
Rick Hall
This website is one of newest Hero Officials, Rick Hall. He was a dedicated basketball referee who spent his life making sure his passion basketball, was filled with respect and fun for everyone. He was an amazing person, dedicating his time to multiple organizations such as the National Kidney Foundation.
Over the summer, I interviewed his sister - Ms. Dianne Bottino and his friend & fellow referee Dave McAndrew. I developed this page using what I learned about Mr. Rick Hall from both of their interviews and tried to make it as good as I could.
John Simpers
This page is another Hero Official that I worked on this summer. Most of my time was spent into developing this page from previous write-ups / information that was already given by the Kutcher Foundation into a page that everyone liked.
Non-profit Leadership Panel
This was my main project for the first half of the summer. The Non-Profit Leadership panel took a lot of work, I emailed all the panelists, wrote up questions, did all the coordination and scheduling with the help of Ms. Shelly and Ms. Sue to make sure this was perfect! It took a lot of work, but this is my proudest moment of this summer.
My Role
Over the summer, I had two main projects - Gear 4 Kids and the Non-Profit Leadership Panel. Gear 4 Kids was my huge summer project; over the summer I helped redesign small pieces of the main website and helped develop two new pages - Rick Hall and John Simpers. My other project for the beginning of the summer was to help put together a non-profit panel; this project was super close to my heart because I wanted to learn everything I could about nonprofits and I was really interested in them.
The proudest moment I had over the summer was when I was listening to the panel and thinking to myself 'I did that. This was my proud work.' It was amazing to see something that I spent a lot of time working on actually working right in front of my eyes.