Leadership & Service
Leadership & Service
Building trust, one commitment at a time.
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Service Leadership
Youth Counselor
Boston Teen Enrichment Camp
For two summers — and now returning for a third — Alan has served as a youth counselor at Boston Teen Enrichment Camp, working directly with younger students in a structured after-school and summer enrichment program.
What makes this role meaningful is not the title. It is the trust it requires and the trust it builds. Working with young people demands patience, attentiveness, and the ability to hold a group together without imposing yourself on it. Alan does this naturally.
In both summers he has participated, he has been voted best counselor by his peers — a recognition that is earned, not appointed. It speaks to the kind of presence he brings: reliable, genuinely caring, and steady under the noise that comes with working with young kids.
Returning for a third summer is itself a statement. This is not a one-time item for an application. It is a commitment he keeps renewing because the work matters to him.
Emerging Leadership
Other Contexts
BLS Crew
Being part of a crew demands synchronized effort — every oar in time, every person trusting the others. Alan is newer to this context, but it is teaching him a different kind of leadership: the discipline of being fully present and fully dependable within a collective rhythm.
Model UN
Leadership in Model UN takes the form of advocating coherently for a position, building consensus across a committee, and staying composed when challenged. Alan excels here because he prepares thoroughly and speaks with intention — the kind of credibility that moves a room without dominating it.
Civic Leadership
Mock Trial
Alan is currently participating in Mock Trial at BLS — a natural step for someone whose leadership expresses itself through argument, preparation, and advocacy. Teams prepare and argue simulated court cases before real judges, taking on the roles of attorneys and witnesses. It is leadership in the intellectual register he finds most natural: building a case, anticipating opposition, and delivering under pressure.
“Leadership, for Alan, is less about title and more about consistency — being the person others can count on.”