About Quinlan

Reviewed on 5/26/2015

I am so pleased to write a recommendation for Quinlan. I have known her for more than 7 years, since I met her as a 7th grade student in the middle school where I taught Science. Even at that young age, she was hard working and forward thinking. She joined our Environmental Club and instantly took on a leadership role. Despite the many challenges she faced with growing a new program, she never wavered, eventually helping our Club win national environmental awards and helping to save schools in drought-ravaged areas of the world. Perhaps most impressive of all was Quinlan s fearless pioneering of our groundbreaking Music Project. Quin was one of 9 students that helped develop the program, raised more than $50,000, and then traveled to East Africa to work side by side with top scientists and African students and educators. Besides all of her environmental work in Africa, she also composed and recorded an original CD of music that combined western and traditional Maasai music. This is the first time this has ever been done, and Quin lead the project. If I were to list all of the impressive things I've seen from Quinlan in the course of the last 7 years, this letter would fill many pages. Instead, let me say that I could not possibly recommend her more highly than I do. She is courageous, facing every challenge that comes her way. Her responsibility and dependability allow me to assign her difficult tasks with full confidence that she will get the job done. She is talented, yet shows modesty even in the light of her successes.