Collegiate Softball Athlete

At Albion College, Kiersten is a part of the Henry Ford Institute of public policy. She is involved in the Springfield Area Prevention Coalition. And ran the Be the Change Club along with the Peace Project 

She believes that everybody has something special about them but it takes time to find it. Through personal experiences with Anxiety, Bullying, Sports and running clubs it took her a while to find out how special she was. She ran two mental health advocacy clubs at her school and through those clubs she found her safe spot. She realized that she is not alone in her mental health struggles and that she can overcome them with helping others do the same. While it took awhile, Kiersten found that she was special and that her anxiety doesn’t define her no matter what aspect of life it had affected before.

She is a collegiate athlete: a softball player for Albion College in Michigan. She is so interested in speaking! She said:  “I could talk about my mental health (I struggle with anxiety) I can even talk about how it has affected me with sports. I could also talk about how to become a leader and what I have learned over the past years.”