Meteyana Miller

UConn School of Nursing, Class of 2016

I was born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. Every summer as a teenager, I volunteered with the Ferguson Main Library. I worked with the child and teenager reading clubs that were held during the summer and fall. My responsibilities included organizing activities for the children, reading to the children, and preparing the reading logs that tracked their reading progress throughout the season. From my junior to senior year of high school, I was also a part of the local UNICEF club, which organized many soup kitchen visits and book drives. WE also coordinated with local businesses through the Tap Project to raise money for UNICEF, and organized a Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF event during Halloween. Through senior year, I was a volunteer tutor for underclassmen through my National Honors Society as well as a paid tutor for a Success Tutoring program run by my high school; I tutored math and history.

I sought involvement with UST to learn more about undeserving populations and how to help them through being peer educators, or through providing access to soup kitchens and other community health organizations. I believe the experience I will have with the UST’s events and projects will enhance my skills as a promising nurse-to-be and my capacity for empathy and caring as a human being.