Olivia Raymond
Olivia will be an incoming freshman at Brown University this fall, studying public health and public policy. She has served as the Vice President of the Black Student Union, the Student Council's Director of Community Outreach, and Yearbook Editor-In-Chief. For the past two years, she has also volunteered in West Orange High School’s student peer-to-peer mentoring program called Mountaineer Mentors.
Olivia is a founding member/student ambassador of the public health initiative campaign; Green Ribbon Week. Green Ribbon Week aims to promote positive mental health awareness and practices among youth. These initiatives are supported by the GrassRoots Community Foundation in which she has been an active member since 2016.
Additionally, she is working with the New Jersey Justice Collaborative for Girls as a Youth Participatory Action Researcher. Her research project, Education For Us, By Us, explores the legacy of segregation and the policies that affect students' experiences in New Jersey Schools. She has also been working as an intern and youth advisory board member for Yale University's Substance Abuse and Sexual Health Research lab.
Claes Nobel Future Female Leader Scholarship encourages and empowers young women to assume future leadership roles in their colleges and universities, their careers, and communities and to become mentors for the young women following in their footsteps.