Meet Sarah Ahmed, currently serving as Outreach Coordinator with the YWCA Social Justice Department, a service site of the Building Communities, Bettering Lives AmeriCorps program.

1. What motivated you to join AmeriCorps? I want the opportunity to serve my community and be able to provide resources that can impact people’s lives.

2. What would you like to get out of this service opportunity? I look forward to learning valuable skill sets to communicate effectively with children.

3. What will your service focus on for the 2019-20 program year? During this program year, my service will focus on social justice programming for the middle and high schools in the Birmingham area.

4. What are your plans after AmeriCorps? Post-AmeriCorps, I plan to return to graduate school and get a Clinical Psychology degree.

Thank you for your service, Sarah!