Coral Gables High senior Olivia Field created a community service project called Book Nook.
She collected more than a thousand books that she plans to distribute to churches and the Boys and Girls Club. She and her friends in the English Honor Society not only collected the books but built book shelves for the organizations that receive the books.
“The whole reason I wanted to do it is to spread the love for literature,” she said.
She sought out a wide variety of books so she can get books out there and encourage people to read.
“I have everything from picture books to young chapter books,” she said.
Field hopes to do one more drive at the end of her senior year.
At school, she is president of the English Honor Society, captain of the badminton team, vice president of the National Honor Society, a member of the International Baccalaureate Honor Society and a member of Gables Earth.
And she participates in Model United Nations competitions. She first started in middle school and joined when it was finally offered in high school.
“I do Model Congress at Harvard in Boston every year,” she said. “I do Mock Supreme Court there.”
She is editor-in-chief for the school’s newsmagazine, which used to be the school paper.
“I started off my freshman year as a staff writer, when I immediately fell in love with this style of journalism,” she said. “I run the class completely, doing everything from editing to grading. We produce six 32-page issues a year.”
Outside of school, Field volunteered for the Hillary Clinton campaign, although she was still too young to vote in this election.
Political science is one of the college majors she is considering.
So far, she has been accepted to FIU, Boston College, Northeastern, University of Vermont, and Eckerd. She’s waiting to hear from Brown, Princeton, Tufts, and Swarthmore and more.
— Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
