The University of Central Oklahoma Asian American Student Association welcomed Representative and UCO Alumna, Cyndi Munson, to a community seminar on March 5 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Nigh University Center, room 326, for their Oklahoma Representative Cyndi Munson Attended the AASA “Perspectives in Asian Leadership” event.
Oklahoma Representative and University of Central Oklahoma Alumna, Cyndi Munson, visited the UCO Mass Communications building before her appearance in the AASA “Perspectives in Asian Leadership” event to speak one-on-one with UCO reporters Abbi Avers and Machenzie Glass about her campaign, and what it means to represent a minority in the balot. Munson also spoke about her time at UCO.
“This campus and professors…really focus on servant leadership…and knowing how to use your voice to make a difference. I am very grateful for that experience because…I think sometimes when we are students, we don’t realize just how impactful and real these experiences are and how they can help us in our adulthood or once we become professionals. So my my goal has always been, ‘I just want to make a difference in the world’,” Said Munson.
Munson said that growing up with a single father in Lawton, and later enrolling as a first generation college student who relied on scholarships and Oklahoma’s Promise, it has shaped the way she cares for other Oklahomans…