Gerri Jergensen
Commitment
Throughout my years of climbing the corporate ladder, being a wife and mother, I remained active within the community. Working within my children's school I ran many fundraisers, clothing drives, while also organizing blood drives, food drives, and shelters for abused women and children.
While in college I have actively worked with a group to supply reusable famine products to girls in Africa that barely had running water. Also I have worked with YWLP (Young Women Leaders Program) through UCF in an effort to show young girls they have options in their lives and many positive choices they can be inspired to choose. This organization give teenage girls a safe and unique opportunity to make the right choices and give them a safe place to share their inner most thoughts and feelings that they normally can’t share with people without being judged.
Every day, in so many ways, the beauty industry (and the media in general) tell women and girls that being admired, envied and desired based on their looks is a primary function of true womanhood. The beauty template women are expected to follow is extremely narrow, unrealistic and frequently hazardous to their health. The Love Your Body campaign challenges the message that a woman's value is best measured through her willingness and ability to embody current beauty standards. Through this program we where able to show these young women, that they have a voice that should be heard and how their choices will effect their future lives.
Attached you will find artifacts that show my commitment to being involved with my community including the link below.
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