Ariel Usher

Background

About Ariel Usher

LEADERSHIP • Led a two-week missions trip to the Philippines • Stage managed over 50 cast and crew members in a Christmas production • Guided elementary school students through a self-designed picture book workshop FUNDRAISING • Created an on-going Sponsor-Child Program for Street Kids Philippine Missions • Organized drives to collect several thousand dollars and many boxes of relief donations for Street Kids Philippines Missions and Typhoon Haiyan refugees • Sold Christmas Cards benefitting a Filipino orphanage, raising over • Initiated and led a three-day campus fundraiser to collect change for AIDS orphans INTERVIEWING and WRITING • Published Slice of Life articles in The Frederick News Post, 2011 • Developed, wrote for, and edited a campus departmental newsletter • Interviewed Suketu Mehta, author of the book that inspired the movie Slumdog Millionaire • Wrote article as a volunteer for Good Samaritan Advocates, a legal aid organization • Edited press releases, articles, and book chapters for the International Christian Concern, an influential nonprofit organization • Blogged about conditions at an orphanage and church in Cebu City, Philippines • Updated orphanage donors through email and social media PUBLIC SPEAKING • Recounted experiences living at an orphanage in the Philippines with a congregation of over three hundred people • Spoke to one hundred middle school students about orphans in the Philippines • Presented educational information to classes throughout college