Sarah Davis is a junior, secondary education and English double major. She is also minoring in Spanish. She is very involved at Cabrini and has gone above and beyond by taking advantage of many of the great opportunities Cabrini has offered her.
Recently, Davis was chosen to attend a special mission trip to Swaziland over winter break.
In her ECG 200 class, Davis had gotten the chance to write to a student at the Cabrini Mission camp in Swaziland. The student, named Beauty, asked Davis to come visit the Swaziland camp but Davis automatically assumed, “There’s no way I can actually get over there.”
A year later Davis found herself sitting in Swaziland talking with that young girl about everything from life experiences to future aspirations. Their meeting face to face “was a touching moment for everyone there,” Colleen Poole, one of the staff members who attended the trip, said.
Davis and a few other students and staff from Cabrini stayed at Cabrini Ministries Swaziland for 12 days over the holiday break to educate the students at the camp.
“Sarah was a good role model for the students who were around her age,” Poole said. “She is selfless and always looks out for the needs of others. She was always checking on everyone else, even when she was not feeling 100 percent herself.”
Davis has always been one to put herself before others and has always had a passion for teaching.
This summer Davis plans to take another trip to teach. She will be spending three weeks in Argentina with her current Spanish class. The students from the class will go into schools located in Argentina to help the teachers and students there learn English as a second language.
Davis is grateful for the service-based travel abroad experiences Cabrini has made possible.
“I think there are always the opportunities at schools to study abroad but as far as short term trips to go and get hands on experience is very unique to Cabrini,” she said.
Davis is also very active on campus. She currently holds two jobs, one as a writing tutor and the other as a manager for all tutors at Cabrini. She is in the Honors program and is a member of multiple honors societies.
“Sarah is very quiet, yet very strong in her convictions,” said Poole. “She sets a high standard for herself and works hard to achieve her goals.
“Sarah is loyal, caring and witty,“ Missy Matsanka, a close friend of hers, said. “She is always inspiring others to better oneself and always knows just what to say.”
Davis’s positive characteristics allowed her to be one of the recipients of Cabrini’s Alumni Scholarship and with that she became a student representative for the Alumni Board.
“Being able to take what my peers see and take their thoughts to the Alumni Board to create a working relationship between the two is really important,” Davis said.
Davis hopes to use this role to create a better sense of community so it is not just undergrads or just Alumni making decisions for the campus.
She plans to continue to take the exceptional opportunities that Cabrini continues to offer her during her last three semesters.
“I can not imagine what life would be like if I hadn’t come to Cabrini,” Davis said. “I got involved with any opportunity that presented itself, which has given my life direction as far as a career path, interests and developing skills that I didn’t know I needed.”
