Lindsay Hearn
Age 22, senior at Northwestern University
Intern at Young Audiences
Award winner Lindsay Hearn, a senior at Northwestern University and intern for SAY, says, “Many of the children I met throughout the summer, do not have access to the arts or to some of the opportunities that other students might have over the summer, but the programs I worked with provide a fun and educational outlet for them during the summer months. They will go back to school more prepared and ready to engage in learning because they were continuing to grow over the summer.”
Lydia Campbell-Maher, SAY Director, says that Hearn played a pivotal role in the success of the program, “She took on the responsibility of training and supervising our teen youth leaders and often acted as a positive role model for everyone she worked with.
“She demonstrated intrinsic motivation to take on the many challenges of her position,” Campbell-Maher stated. In one instance, a Spanish-speaking child was at camp without her cousin, who typically translated for her. Hearn noticed that she looked lonely and lost. Speaking in Spanish, Hearn made a joke about how terrible her own Spanish was.
Even though rudimentary, Hearn’s efforts to communicate in Spanish paid off. “The second I said something she could understand, her face lit up,” Hearn recounted. “I could tell by the end of the day that even though speaking in Spanish was a small gesture, the results were important to her success that day…and to me.”
Young Audiences of Indiana makes the arts a part of every child’s education by partnering with teachers and other educators to develop and deliver arts programming directly to schools with professional teaching artists, including performances and workshops, to more than a quarter-million Indiana students annually.
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