from Kristin’s winning essay…
“Traveling has always been an experience that I wish I could enjoy more often. I have been on many road trips with my family in the past, but I’ve never had the opportunity to choose my destination and travel independently. While travel is obviously fun, I would like to use my previous experiences to 
evolve into a better individual…
For the past two years I have volunteered at the West Muskegon Society for the Protection and Care of Animals, which has given me well over 300 hours of volunteer services with domestic and wild animals. I know that my experiences will help me greatly when studying wild and captive cheetahs in Namibia. I hope that you consider me for this year’s Independent Travel Scholarship and that I will be lucky enough to be given this chance to change my world and the world of those around me.”
