Allison Gabriela Leggett, whose parents, Dr. Allison Leggett and Elmon von Leggett, Quitman, MS native, are beaming with pride.
Allison is a junior double major in Health and Human Sciences and French and honors student at Loyola Marymount University where she is on the Dean’s Honor Roll, serves as an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) technician (only 3 chosen this year), Vice President of MAPS (Minority Association of Pre-medical students), Teaching assistance for Anatomy, Research assistant in the field of alcohol effects on student athlete performance, and Financial coordinator for the Center for Service and Action. She is a member of the Tau Sigma National Honors society and the International Science Discovery and Learning Center.
Further, she is a member of Association for Black Women Physicians, Sister-to-Sister branch for Pre-med students, and has worked with Habitat for Humanity in building homes for the homeless and Underwings, a grass-roots organization serving the indigent and shelter families. She was recently honored with winning the Intramural Competition in Business Ethics and is competing Internationally in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Allison recently placed first in the Intramural Competition for Business Ethics competing internationally in Cambridge, Massachusetts April 20 – 22nd, and also recently returned from a one-week trip to Managua, Nicaragua, to shadow doctors and work with indigent patients.
She is the Financial Coordinator of Center for Service & Action, and includes trips to Chicago, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, and South Africa on her resume. She has studied abroad at Bonne, Germany as well.
Also included on her resume is
• Tutoring/mentoring students K-8
• Immersions
• Community organizing
• Peace walks
• Solidarity events
• Issues of immigration, homelessness, and gang violence.
