Meet Student Planning Committee Director, Stacy Tolos
Stacy Tolos is a Junior at Vanderbilt University double majoring in Human and Organizational Development and Sociology. Ever since middle school she knew she wanted to change the world. As a result of her extensive community service involvement in high school, she was awarded the Ingram Scholarship, a full tuition scholarship based on academics, leadership and a lifelong commitment to serving others.
At Vanderbilt, she founded and coordinated a student organization, Synergy College Preparatory and Mentoring Program, providing underprivileged area high school students with mentors and college preparatory assistance. The program was a great success, and has been passed on to new leadership in order to foster sustainability. Stacy spent the summer after her freshman year in Kumasi, Ghana, teaching in an elementary school and founding a library at the school. The following summer, Stacy volunteered full-time at Ashoka - Innovators for the Public Headquarters in Washington, D.C. as a Marketing Associate where she coordinated the redesign and redevelopment of the international web site.
Stacy attended and conducted a workshop at the 2005 C.O.O.L. Idealist National Conference in Berkeley which strongly impacted her in many ways. She obtained her internship through a contact she met while at the conference. She found new direction for her future career at the conference. She also met other world-changers with whom she has maintained contact. She is very excited to work on the 2006 C.O.O.L. Idealist National Conference at Vanderbilt University, and seeks to make sure that it is "COOLer" than ever before.
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