So a Little About Steph...

The founding members of One Beat are: Steph (me!), Wesley, Kay, and Amy. A little about myself...

I live in Boston now, and went to high school outside of Philadelphia in a cute little town, Doylestown. It was in high school that I became involved with social activist work, and the crisis in Uganda, which is where One Beat is focusing our early efforts.

My senior year AP English teacher, Mr. Robert Trachtenburg, presented myself and the other 8 members of our class the opportunity to replace a paper with a project focused on activism, since it was a pretty consistent theme throughout the class. Our classmates established the Youth Activist Movement and educated our school and community on what was happening in Northern Ugandan and the horrors of child soldiers, abductions, and displacement camps.

Upon my arrival in Boston, I sought out ways to continue working for this cause. It wasn't until this February, when attending Lobby Days in D.C. where I met Wesley and Kay that things for One Beat begun to brew.

Since than we have been planning, discussing, what we want to accomplish and how we are going to do it. Although we are still planning for the fall, we are ready to make a difference here in our Boston community.

Although what I already told you is the sequence of events that brought us to today, there is something more involved, a sense of duty, of pride, and of making the world better for the people we share it with. There is a lot in this world that can be improved and that needs to be changed. Often it is thought there is more to be fixed than one individual can accomplish. But one individual's actions will inspire others. We can only do as much as we set our minds out to accomplish.



Peace.

-Steph