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Palmetto High School rising senior Jordyn Lazar was a Student Captain for the Dunks for Diabetes, a three-on-three basketball fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association.
“My role was to run the Instagram and Facebook accounts on the day of the event and leading up to it,” she says.
She worked on the program in ninth and tenth grades. It was cancelled due to COVID in 2020.
In January, Lazar participated in the Greater Miami Jewish Federation program called J-Serve on Martin Luther King Day.
“We participate in a service project for half of it, and on the other half we have conversations on racism, segregation, and equality,” she says. “Throughout the years they’ve had speakers come from different perspectives and different communities to discuss racial justice.”
Because of COVID-19, this year’s program was conducted virtually.
“We did the projects at our house and dropped it off at a local drop-off location to then be taken to the Miami Rescue Mission,” she says. “This year my project was to make hygiene packages for females.”
She’s also participated in Mitzvah Days with Temple Judea. For two years, she and others have packaged meals for Passover and given them out to Jewish residents in Miami Beach.
Lazar also volunteers for the Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options (JAFCO).
At Palmetto, Lazar is the treasurer for the Class of ’22. She’s been the treasurer since tenth grade.
“My job is to come up with fundraising ideas, and contact the companies,” she says. “I then facilitate the fundraising events and keep a record of our profits.”
She’s in the television production program. For the past two years, she’s been the social media coordinator and an anchor but will be president next year.
She’s a member of Mu Alpha Theta, the National Honor Society, the Jewish Student Union, and secretary of the Finance Club.
Outside of school she’s the vice-president and co-founder of $tock Gal$ Miami.
“We compete in stock competitions as well as make our own real purchases,” she says. “At the end of the senior year, we’ll be selling all our stocks and hopefully we will be realizing a large gain.”
She and her friend who she started the finance club also started a female entrepreneur speaker series.
“We chose female CEOs who are young and have interesting stories that can help us become leaders someday,” she says.
Through her temple, Lazar participates in a program called Better Together. Once a month the teens are paired up with a senior citizen and they engage in discussions.
“It’s interesting to see their point of view of various issues in our world,” she says.
For college, she’s considering combining her two major interests of business and television into a major like entertainment management. In 2019, she took a summer course on entertainment management at UCLA through the National Student Leadership Conference.
“Last year online, I did a program through Syracuse called the Golden Age of Television,” she says.
She also took The Business of Entertainment, Media and Sports Academy through Summer Discovery out of the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
And she took an online screenwriting class.
This summer she’s taking three courses. She’ll go to New York for the Wall Street Stock Market and Investment Experience, then to Washington, D.C. for a National Student Leadership Conference on Sports Management. She’ll finish with an online course at the University of Pennsylvania called The Future of the Business World.
Currently, she plans to apply to the University of Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis, U Penn, and Syracuse University.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
