 Dear Student Awards and Scholarship Committee, I would like to express my gratitude for being nominated the 2021 recipient of the Special Session Scholarship. Thank you for your generous financial support toward my higher education. I'm working towards my MLIS with a concentration in academic libraries. This degree will help me to develop libraries in destitute places here in the country and also outside of the country. I was born and raised in a third-world country where I saw that the lack of resources and the lack of learning spaces crippled and shattered the dreams of many of my friends. I would like to be a part of the team and the generation that would change that narrative. I'm completing my first year here at St. Josie State University. The knowledge, connections, and confidence of the faculty and the School of Information has provided me are tremendous. I'm thankful to those who have generously sowed a seed so that it may be harvested in the next generation. I'm currently working at a small college as an academic librarian. I'm tasked to bring this library up to the standard of a higher education accreditation team. The task is also to train for my future endeavor. This scholarship allows me to benefit from the excellent education resources and connection that are offered at St. Josie State. Your financial generosity will be spent in equipping me to accomplish the task at hand. Thank you. I look forward to staying in touch so that you may see how this scholarship was significantly invested. Thank you so much.