I give the DePauw community a lot of credit for building up my confidence enough to chase these dreams.
Liz Busch Student
These last few months at DePauw have served as an important time for me, as a senior, to explore the opportunities that await in post-grad life. I’ve been using this time to connect with and learn from some wonderful DePauw alumni, and these interactions led to two internships this past winter term.
I worked with Challenge Aspen (shoutout to DePauw alum Jenni Sandels Peterson ’92!), a nonprofit that provides adaptive opportunities to those with physical and/or cognitive disabilities and with ESPN at the 2021 X Games in Aspen, Colorado.
Through these opportunities, I learned that the DePauw network is very real and that alumni want to help – so long as you activate the “work” part of the word “networking!” I give the DePauw community a lot of credit for building up my confidence enough to chase these dreams.
Major: Communication
Involvement: Admissions Ambassador; athletics game day operations; Grounded Coffee & Christ; speech center consultant; Little 5; Women in Sports and Networking; Alpha Chi Omega; Denmark and Peru winter term
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