Servant Leadership Personal Statement

My passion for business was kindled in adversity from the age of 11 years old. While my friends enjoyed the monkey bars and playgrounds, my world was filled with printing machines.

I spent the majority of my childhood in the family's printing factory. Despite barely making ends meet ourselves, my father always cared for his employees' families by covering their healthcare and education. He taught me the purpose of business was to make a positive impact on your community, environment and to the world.

With that always in mind, I travelled over 8000 miles to California from Jakarta in search of knowledge to satiate my hunger for education. I devoted my every being into my studies; maintaining high grades in spite of working 20 hours every week to take off some financial burden off my parents’ shoulders. To this day I am still unable to fathom how I managed to pull off the required classes and credits to transfer in 3 semesters.

During high school as the Student Government President, I had a life-changing experience; something that kindled a passion for servant leadership in me. I focused on improvements to address the student population’s problems. A big issue was regarding

The firm wanted to promote corporate social responsibility, so I spearheaded the idea of purchasing school materials and a volunteering program for employees to tutor unfortunate high-school students. Within two weeks, this program reached over 1,200 students in Jakarta. If in that short time, a single business could make such an impact, imagine the great things that would happen if all Indonesian business helped out. With the scholarship I know that it will allow me to the next step in my education, to equip myself with the necessary tools to initiate a revolution for a greater cause; to make impact that truly