North Chicago Students attend 2023 Student Leadership Day at the Illinois Holocaust Museum
North Chicago High School students attended the Illinois Holocaust Museum's Student Leadership Day on Wednesday, December 6th, 2023, with Dr. Brothman and Ms. Fritz. The goal of Student Leadership Day is to increase awareness about the Holocaust, genocide, and human rights and to help participants think about lessons we can learn from the past. This year’s program highlighted the Museum’s special exhibition, “I’ll Have What She’s Having”: The Jewish Deli.
We joined 230 students and 22 high schools from across Illinois. Each of our students was assigned a table with students from other schools. They learned to work together to develop a social media campaign highlighting one of the 30 human rights outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After each of the 22 tables was presented, students joined their schools to visit the Holocaust Exhibit, where they were asked to find examples of leadership, both good and bad. After lunch, we heard from our keynote speaker, Dion Dawson, who talked to us about food insecurity. We then discussed as a school what issue we wanted to focus on this year.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dion Dawson, CEO and Chief Dreamer, Dion’s Chicago Dream
Dion Dawson is a food-based social entrepreneur, philanthropic leader, and founder focused on health equity through an innovative and logistical lens. Dion founded Dion’s Chicago Dream, a nonprofit organization that combats food insecurity through logistics & last-mile delivery. His system provides a week’s worth of fresh produce to the doorsteps of food-insecure recipients. It has surpassed more than 600,000 lbs of fresh produce provided annually, numerous community jobs created, and one powerful movement.
Our 2023-24 Warhawk Student Leaders are:
9th
Kelly Garcia
Quetzaly Astudillo
10th
Tawasol Adam
11th
Ashley Lopez
Jose Vences
Byron Craig
Norman Sorto
