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Palmer Trinity School senior Alfredo Wolfe has already committed to the University of Chicago for college. He is considering majoring in Public Policy.
This past summer he attended The Neubauer Adelante Summer Scholars program for Hispanic students, at the University of Chicago.
“I met a lot of people from all over the country that were also Hispanic,” he says. “It was cool to be with people that I have something in common with already.”
He took classes on social democracy and authoritarianism as well as lectures on other important topics.
The students also learned about the college admissions process and took pre-college enrichment classes.
The previous summer, he participated in the Yale Young Global Scholars Program at Yale.
Wolfe took an academic track on Solving Global Challenges.
He attended a lecture with an international lawyer about espionage and a seminar about humanitarianism and the work of Doctors Without Borders.
His interest in helping others led him to be one of the founding volunteers for the GI 305 project.
“It provides income checks to underprivileged residents in Overtown and Little Haiti,” he says.
It’s a startup and he worked on marketing.
“All of the piloting work is over,” he says. “The program is working now. They have distributed the cash.”
The program was started by recent University of Chicago alumni who came to Miami specifically to start the program.
“I found the project interesting,” he says. “I cold emailed her and offered to help out in any way they needed help.”
He plans to major in public policy in college in hopes of serving the community in the future and this project allowed him to help people now.
“Miami has completely changed since the pandemic,” he says. “There is so much development and growth and it comes at a cost because people can’t sustain themselves when things that were affordable are now completely out of reach. Miami’s always been a deeply unequal city. It feels like it’s getting worse.”
At school, Wolfe is a member of Model United Nations. He not only attends conferences, he helps organize the conferences held at Palmer Trinity.
“I got to be a chair of the Human Rights Committee,” he says.
The Human Rights committee focused on the plight of migrant workers in Dubai and Qatar and the issue of refugees in the Mediterranean.
“And how migrants are mistreated,” he says. “It’s an extremely dangerous migration route.
What solutions we can bring to solve these issues and make the issue of migrants and migration more just.”
He also learned about the U.S. immigration issues when he completed an internship at a Miami immigration law office.
He recently returned from a Model U.N. trip to southern India, in the city of Chennai hosted by the American International School of Chennai.
“I was the chair of the Disarmament Committee,” he says. “We discussed the rising issue of AI in war and attacks on civilian infrastructure. I oversaw all of the resolutions and I approved them. Four of the six were passed, which was impressive.”
While on the trip, the students also visited the Taj Mahal and the capital, Delhi. In all, they went to four cities.
At home, he is the vice chair of the Miami-Dade Youth Commission, which is run by Miami-Dade government.
“It’s like a mock board of county commissioners,” he says. “We have more of a say. It’s students, we apply, we have committees dedicated to issues.”
At Palmer Trinity, he’s a member of the Hispanic Honor Society and the National Honor Society.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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