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Birthday: Tues. 10, Dec. 1985
Hometown: Wantagh, NY 11793

Adam Greenberg is a 2007 graduate of the University of Miami. A Bowman Foster Ashe scholar, Adam earned a Bachelor of Science with a major in psychology and minors in biology and business administration after changing majors about six times.

He is now serving our nation as a Class XIV RED 6 Corps Member with AmeriCorps *National Civilian Community Corps (*NCCC), Western Region. Based out of Sacramento, CA, Adam is having an amazing 10 months traveling the country in a dilapitated 15-person van, partaking in various team-based community service projects. He has built homes and sheds with Habitat for Humanity in Santa Fe, NM; served as both Ms. Arguelles' and Ms. Platt's teacher's aid, tutoring 6th grade math and playing and reading with kindergartners at Jeff Davis Elementary School in Biloxi, MS; and is now again leading volunteers in the re-building of homes with Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans, LA. Throughout the year, Adam has also served as a course monitor at numerous marathon race/walks for causes, organized food banks, walked dogs at animal shelters, participated in youth carnival fun days, co-hosted a talent show for spring break volunteers, updated/maintained an elementary school website, and has fundraised over $450 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Join AmeriCorps *NCCC! (www.AmeriCorps.gov/NCCC)

Among other involvements, Adam was an upperclassman mentor in S.T.R.I.V.E. (Serving Together Reaching Integrity, Values & Engagement), the first housing community at the University of Miami that focuses on developing leadership, encouraging civic engagement, and enhancing service-learning through direct volunteer efforts. He has also worked extensively toward fostering student and faculty awareness and open dialogue on campus with 2006' successful UNICCO Worker Campaign for a Union & Living Wage. Recently, Adam was a 2007 summer intern with the Education & Leadership Development department here in the great NY office of Young People For!

What do you stand for?
I stand for open dialogue and honest communication because with all of the issues bred by the society in which we live today, discussions are where we need to begin.

Post-Summit Goal:
Adam plans to continue to work toward bringing a collaborative consciousness to the needs of the social disparity existent in our world today - so that we might all one day learn and apply the critical skills necessary to develop as agents of progressive change, both in our global community and in our own daily lives.

Just FYI:
He also loves giving blood; playing music (preferably acoustic guitar, some piano, a little less drums, and the harmonica, yes); and he enjoys listening to living people play live music too.

An advocate for the ability of every person to affect positive change, Adam is a regular lender of Kiva.org, a social change non-profit that empowers individuals with the capacity to microfinance directly to personal borrowers in the developing world through no-interest loans. (www.Kiva.org/lender/Chimp5)

Bear in Mind:
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." — Frederick Douglass, 1857.

"Discontent is the first step in the progress of an individual or a nation." — my once walleted, but now lost, yet still not forgotten, Chinese food fortune cookie fortune, 2007.