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Miami Palmetto High School senior Shira Rosenberg is a member of the Temple Beth Am Social Justice Teen Fellowship. The program educates teens on social issues both locally and internationally.
“Last January I went to Guatemala,” she says. “We did a four-day social action to help build a green school out of recycled materials. We were building this new part that they were going to use as an art school. It’s going to be where they paint and draw.”
The teen fellowship team also participated in a beach clean-up on Key Biscayne. They picked up trash and learned how to preserve aquatic life.
Another social action was going to Washington DC to talk to representatives about social justice issues.
“We talked about abortion and gun violence in school,” she says. “The Florida representatives agreed with some of the things we said and not some of the things.”
This school year the senior group may go to Costa Rica to build another school or the Florida Keys to help with a beach clean-up there.
The program seems tailormade for Rosenberg who says she loves politics.
Rosenberg’s community service includes making boxes of goods for foster children.
She also worked at the Achieve Miami summer camp for two weeks, working with four- and five-year-olds.
“We go to an inner-city school and we’re basically counselors,” she says. “We are helping them read and do some math and are also with them when they are outside. I was teaching the kids to read, but I was also reading to them.”
Her school extra curriculars include being event coordinator of Panther Buddies. She plans weekly and monthly events,
“We help people who are disabled,” she says. “We do activities outside and we do activities during lunch.”
They also sit with the disabled kids during lunch.
She hopes to put together a field day for the buddies and finding volunteers to make the event a success.
Rosenberg is captain of the girls’ soccer team. She’s been on varsity all four years. The team has done well, winning the district championship every year she’s been on the team.
“I’m trying to get us to regional finals,” she says. “We haven’t gone in three years so hopefully we’ll get there.”
She says they have planned things for the pre-season that should help the team continue their winning ways.
Last year she was second in Miami-Dade County for assisted goals in the soccer season.
She also made the Miami Herald’s All Miami-Dade Soccer Second Team.
She has had offers to play soccer in college from some Division III teams. She plans to visit them in October.
Rosenberg is also on the varsity bowling team. Last year the team got to the districts final but lost. She hopes to go further this season.
Eight times this school year she’ll talk to the underclassmen about important topics like drinking while driving, smoking, about not getting enough sleep, and mental health for the Health Information Project, HIP.
For the past two years she’s worked at the law firm Kelley Kronenberg, P.A.
Shira is a semi-finalist for the prestigious POSSE Scholarship. The Posse Foundation website says, “the foundation identifies, recruits and trains individuals with extraordinary leadership potential.”
For college, some of the colleges she is applying to include Syracuse (Posse Partner), Tulane (Posse Partner), University of Maryland at College Park, and Davidson College in North Carolina (Posse Partner).
She wants to major in either political science or sports broadcasting.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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