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AUGUSTA — Jennesa Fabbri, a veteran and a student at the University of Maine at Augusta is one of 100 attendees selected for the 2018 Student Veterans of America Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C.
The national organization supports student veterans associations at colleges and universities throughout the country.
Fabbri, from Bowdoin, was chosen to participate from among hundreds of highly competitive, talented and qualified applicants from across the United States, UMA said in a news release. Those invited by the selection committee represent the nation’s student veterans with the most extraordinary academic, extracurricular and personal strengths the release said, and Fabbri is a UMA student who exemplifies these characteristics
“This whole process has been a group effort,” said Fabbri. “Without the help of Amy Line, director of military and veterans services, and the veteran academic center on campus, I would have never thought to start a Student Veterans Association at UMA.”
Enrolled in the Veterinary Technology program on the UMA Bangor campus, Fabbri is the president of the newly formed UMA Student Veterans Association, a multi-campus student group inclusive of veterans at all UMA locations. She volunteers in the Katz Library on the Augusta campus and is always willing to lend a hand to her fellow classmates. She is also an employee of MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta.
The program took place Sept. 20 through 23 in Washington, D.C., at the United States Chamber of Commerce, and brought veterans who are students together for intensive leadership training.
“My leadership style is a bit unorthodox,” said Fabbri. “I like to lead from the middle. That way I can have a full 360-view on how everyone is doing. It is important to me that no one slides through the cracks.”
In addition to Fabbri, two University of Southern Maine students were chosen for the institute, senior Kelsey Earley, of Saco, and sophomore Mary Swanson, of Waterboro.
