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Palmer Trinity School junior Samaira Krishnan has volunteered with Breakthrough Miami since freshman year. She started out volunteering on Saturdays and then escalated her commitment and is now vice president of the Breakthrough Miami Club at Palmer Trinity.
“We also have a council of representatives from all of the schools,” she says. “The Changemaker Council from all the Breakthrough sites.”
She joined that council this school year.
“For the council, that’s more the planning and events that are hosted through all of Breakthrough,” she says.
Breakthrough has three blocks on Saturdays including academics, elective and advisory.
Krishnan planned the Speech and Debate elective this year for the eighth grade.
“I’m the head volunteer for the eighth grade,” she says.
The theme for the eighth-grade program is business. Krishnan says they brought in business representatives to talk to the kids about financial planning. The students worked in groups and were tasked with coming up with a business plan for a competition with cash prizes.
Another one of Krishnan’s extracurricular activities is Model United Nations. She’s on the executive board.
“I’ve been on international trips with them to the Netherlands and India,” she says. “Public speaking is a big passion of mine.”
In addition to the international conferences, Palmer Model UN students also attend local conferences and host the Miami Model UN at the school.
“I ran one of the committees,” she says. “This year I’ll be helping organize the conference.
We invite Ransom Everglades, St. Andrews, and last year Columbus High School. I think we will be adding a school or two.”
She participates in the international conferences as a delegate. She was a lawyer in the International Court of Justice when they went to Berlin last fall.
Krishnan is a Palmer Trinity Student Ambassador.
“I give tours to prospective families,” she says. “I really love doing that.”
She started giving tours in tenth grade after applying in ninth grade.
Krishnan is also a member of Round Square at school.
“It’s an association of schools around the world,” she says. “They gather at conferences around the world. They have Postcards, which are discussion. I’ve participated in the student-led discussions.”
She enjoys talking with people who have lived different experiences. In fact, she attended school in Dubai and Thailand before going to Palmer Trinity. She is grateful for her experiences in attending schools in other parts of the world.
“It’s made me adaptable,” she says. “It’s always been presented to me as a new opportunity to learn. It’s still super international. I’m lucky to live in a place with people from all over.”
She recently participated in a different student-led discussion. The topic was climate change.
“We were talking to people of New Jersey,” she says. “They were interested in hearing what we had to say about Hurricane Melissa and about Climate Change. From my understanding it’s a series of discussions.”
The session was sponsored by the Institute for Global Learning.
“I’ve been trying to get more into the climate advocacy field,” she says. “I’m a scuba diver.
I’ve seen how the reefs are deteriorating. It is heartbreaking to see the coral bleaching.”
Her volunteer work includes going to PAWS4You adoption events on the weekends, usually about once every other month.
“I love dogs,” she says. “I love getting these dogs to their forever homes.”
At the events, she helps take care of the puppies and talks to the potential families about the dog they are interested in.
Outside of school she volunteers with the Pinecrest Youth Advisory Board to help friends who are board members.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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