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Mini-Portfolio on Diversity & Equity AND Collaboration & Leadership

In the past two years I have a lot of leadership and collaboration experiences in the learning of IAS. Especially in some performance class and study abroad program. These experiences include my ability in leading others with one goal, subliming the conception, and help others achieve our final goal.

To better evince my ability of leadership and collaboration, I particularly choose a final performance that I have done in The Art of Performance class in spring quarter 2018. The performance entitled “Whistle” was a final show aiming to reflect what we learned during the class. The whole performance over 15 minutes and is collaboration shown in jazz, ballet and modern dance, performed by four girls from Asian. I recommended myself as the leader because I had four years of dancing experience, and as a leader I choreographed the whole 15 minutes dance movement with a perfect combination of the Water modern dance and basic ballet that we learned in class with the Korean pop jazz dance mixed together. In the selection of music, I guide team members to each bring a song that is meaningful to them and encourage them to vote for a final pick. Performance is excellent with full entry and exit in ballet technique, began by whistling to the audience with our backs, including two sexy solo dances, which had a great success and performed on behalf of UWB at the Cascadia theater. This success was largely due to my encouragement to one of the team members, who encouraged her to challenge the solo performance for three minutes and accompanied her to practice outside school for a day. This experience proves that I have a very strong appeal, accurate and effective in terms of leadership and guidance.

The second evidence experience is a study abroad program named When In Rome: Interdisciplinary Studio Art & Italian Culture 2018 in Italy this summer. The most interesting part of this program is to travel to visit the art and sculpture museum in Rome. As a teaching assistant, I played an important role among the 14 students. Managing people in unfamiliar languages and environments is not easy but fun thing to do. For example, Uber is illegal in Rome and taxis are rare, and when I learned we needed to get to the Colosseum on our own the next morning, I offered to reserve a taxi before the day in advance. Although no one agreed with me at that time, I convinced everyone with years of study abroad experience. It proves impossible to reach that destination on time if the reservation is not made in advance. This also let me had a chance to helped and managed the pre-packing artwork set up for MAXXI Museum during our studies. These special experiences have greatly enhanced and proved my leadership, persuasion and cooperation abilities because I helped others take shortcuts and enrich my life.