Amanda Mansfield

Hi, I’m Amanda. I am passionate about all things beauty, all things equality, environmental health, and the flawed education system. My vision statement is “Good intention isn’t held by the sun or moon”. This means that almost nothing is black and white and it’s important to explore multiple perspectives and ideas. It’s also important to look into how not everything suits everybody and the way to solve a problem is to realize there’s not one solution. My artifact is a sketch of a person being carried into an ambulance. The sketch represents what could happen to someone who is uneducated on the negative effects that drugs can cause, which connects to my passion on how the education system is flawed. Seeing the cycle that substance abuse creates breaks my heart. It’s so sad to me that when someone was raised around substance abuse they’re most likely to misuse substances as well - it’s simply the only way they’ve been taught to deal with their issues. I wish that there was a way to break this cycle because overdose seems inevitable when people are addicted. This artifact represents what breaks my heart because to me it holds representation of negative cycles. I strongly believe that your family’s past shouldn’t have to determine your future. I’m passionate about breaking those negative cycles and helping an individual prosper. Over these past 10 weeks I learned that I have the ability to become passionate about almost any problem.