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Joel Ben Thomas
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Education
- Majors in Political Science and Anthropology
- Minor in Economics
Honors Programs
- University's Honors Scholars Program
Campus Involvement
- Harlan Scholars Program
- Freshmen LEAD Program
- University Shadow Host volunteer
- Sigma Chi Fraternity (Risk Management Chair and Scholarship Chair)
Awards
- University of Louisville Greek Life Awards: "Up & Coming Leader Award"
Community Service
- Americana Center
- Kentucky Refugee Ministries
- Big Brothers/ Big Sisters
Foreign Travel
- Europe
- - Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
- Middle East
- - United Arab Emirates and Qatar
- South East Asia
- - Bangladesh
High School
- Joel was a 2011 graduate of Trigg County High School where he served as an active member on the 2010-2011 Kentucky YMCA Childhood Obesity Youth Advisory Board (COYAB), represented COYAB at Kentucky's Children Advocacy Day in Frankfort, and worked on Thanksgiving can-drives.
Favorite Books and Quotations
- The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, Profiles in Courage
- “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." -John F. Kennedy
- "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." -William Faulkner
- "Be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mohandas Gandhi
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Allen earns summer internship to the Library of Congress
Liberty and the Western Tradition
