School: Hofstra University
University year: Sophomore
Who Inspires Me: My Parents
Julia organized a holiday toy drive for the NewYork-Presbyterian Children’s Hospitals for all of the HLF Young Ambassadors to participate in. After receiving a wish list of toys from the hospital, Julia contacted all of the ambassadors wanting to take part and divided the list of toys amongst the group. Each ambassador ran their own fundraiser or drive in their community to collect the toys for their part of the drive. On December 8th, Julia and the other ambassadors delivered the toys to NYP. They met with Dr. Steven Stylianos who is the head of Pediatric Surgery, Missy Hall who is the hospital music therapist and Henrik Lundqvist Foundation art therapist, Susanne Bifano, and HLF’s point of contact, Adam Scally, and his team. Over dinner, they were able to do some of the arts and crafts and musical therapies the children receive and hear heartwarming stories from Dr. Stylianos. Together, Julia and the Young Ambassadors were able to collect hundreds of toys for the children to receive on Christmas morning by Henrik and Therese Lundqvist. Julia said it is a great feeling to know that all of her, and the other ambassadors, hard work put a big smile on many children’s faces on Christmas Morning.
Julia also represented the HLFYA program together with co-founder Henrik Lundqvist at Wealth & Value Initiative Sports dinner in NYC on November 29th 2017 where ca 70 guests were in attendance. View photos here.
