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Point Foundation helps our scholars develop the leadership skills they need to become leaders in their respective professions, communities, and society. Every year of their funding term, Point Scholars are required to initiate and complete a Community Service Project (CSP) that will positively impact the LGBTQ community. What’s up? My name is Madison Klementyn, but you can call me Maddie. I am […]
I spent a couple of hours in between classes browsing through children’s literature theory, as one does, not looking into anything too seriously. I had just been exposed to the genre of theory and was a little skeptical. What is there to say about Mother Goose and Captain Underpants? It wasn’t until I stumbled upon […]
Throughout my life, I have always tried to follow my curiosity. I was a Freshman in high school the first time I ventured into the field of scientific research. Accompanying a family friend for the day in his laboratory, I was introduced to his work studying the effects of fresh water algae blooms in Arizona. […]
Being a Point Scholar means that I have the opportunity to create a Community Service Project each year. This year, I am building off work that I did last year and creating a program that will offer free HIV tests to all students at Grinnell College. I think when we hear about people or organizations […]
Mission: Point Foundation empowers promising LGBTQ students to achieve their full academic and leadership potential – despite the obstacles often put before them – to make a significant impact on society. Point Scholars and Alumni are socially active leaders who are working every day to achieve greater levels of acceptance and respect for all members […]
Recently I began facilitating a mindful meditation practice at the Gender Identity Center (GIC) of Colorado. The practice is open to all, but it is tailored to trans and non-binary folx. As a mental skills and performance excellence consultant, I often describe the ability to attain a mindful state as the goal, and meditation as […]
In my home state of Oregon, we vote at home via mail-in ballots. But in Michigan, where I go to school, I had to amble down to the local public library to cast my vote in person for the first time. The line snaked down a spiral staircase to the poll workers, where a man […]
Thanks to the help of a few Point alums, I was published in the Advocate last September with an opinion piece that I wrote for Bisexual Awareness Week. The piece was about an issue that is rarely discussed in the LGBTQ community: sexual violence against bisexual women. Bisexual women are one of the highest risk […]
By NBCUniversal Point Scholar Julia Horwitz There are a lot of reasons I love writing, but one of the more selfish ones is that I hate loose ends. It’s hard to resist tying ends that aren’t supposed to be tied yet; it makes sense that spoken word poetry was my first love. I’ll always believe […]
My Community Service Project (CSP) for the 2013-2014 school year involved taking a group of students from North Carolina State University to San Francisco, California in order to help the homeless and work with local LGBTQ youth. The goal of the project was to engage the students so they would be inspired to continue to help […]