12/21/2011

PROFILE

Stacia Affelt is an articulate and vibrant student in her senior year at Holy Family High School. Affelt maintains a 4.2 GPA, has received the Academic Achievement Award in Psychology and is enrolled in Honors Spanish V. She has received Academic Excellence in Creative Writing, too. She is a member of the Spanish Club, National Honor Society, Ambassadors Club, Literary Magazine, president of the Spanish Honors Society and executive editor of the yearbook. Affelt, who is bilingual, is considering Arizona State University and the University of Missouri for next fall.

FAVORITE BOOK

Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom

FAVORITE MOVIE

Big Fish and Shes the Man

FUTURE CAREER

Magazine editor

HERO

My grandma Joyce.

WORDS TO LIVE BY

Try to find something to smile and laugh about every day.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Affelt has made it her mission to bring awareness to stopping bullying because of a personal experience. In fact, she helped to create literature to stop bullying in schools. She was also involved in the development (produced and directed) of several videos with the same message, which have been distributed to area schools and showed in conferences worldwide. (Community involvement) not only affects you and your outlook in life, it affects others in a very significant way and it always requires being a part of that.

IF I COULD IMPROVE THE WORLD . . .

I would try to send a message to teenagers that it is important to be yourself always and to really own who you are and not to try to be anybody else.