Essay – Profile a Modern Day Reformer

In a well thought out 500-word Essay - Profile a Modern Day Reformer: What about their work inspires you? Explain the challenge and/or accomplishments of this reformer and address their approach to advance change. Suggest ways that you can help support their work. Consider how your own identity (background, worldview, experiences, etc.) impacts your reaction.

As evaluators for this scholarship we are looking for essays that explore the intellectual thoughts of our students.  Your Modern Day Reformer will most likely be an outlier in civil rights, champion for free expression, women’s equality, minority rights, a change agent in sports, religious freedom, economic liberty, and/or artistic freedom and should inspire who you are in this moment and how you see yourself in the future.

ESSAY Requirements:

  • Give your essay a title
  • Type 500 words, but no more than 800 words
  • Footnotes, citations, and/or references must be provided
  • One inch margins
  • Double-spaced
  • Do not type in ALL CAPS
  • FILES:  PDF and Doc/Docx Only (No picture files – jpeg, png)
  • Spellcheck for proper grammar/syntax and punctuation  
  • NOTE:  Plagarism is an automatic disqualifier – Detection software will be used prior to reading and evaluating all submissions.