Junior Emony Tate was elected Local School Council student representative on June 14. (She is pictured with 2015 graduate Nate Calderon).

In her three years at Steinmetz, Emony has been involved with softball, poetry, the junior committee, National Honors Society, and the Steinmetz Star. Next year she’ll become the opinion editor of the Star. Emony spent her first two years in the Middle Years Programme (MYP); she is now in One Goal. Like many students at Steinmetz, Emony works an after school job.

In addition to her extra curricular activities, school work, and job, outside of school Emony is a youth activist, working with Blocks Together and Youth Service Project.

“I direct and coordinate all youth affairs,” Emony said. “This includes summits, rallies, youth jobs and campaigns.”

For her work on the LSC, which begins at the June 18 meeting, she hopes to work with the LSC to make the school better. Some of her ideas include pushing for more restoritive justice practices, a youth-led school summit for the school community, and a surveying students and parents to help respond to their concerns. She said she’d like to help to improve the atmosphere in the school.