2018 Student Engagement (Service) Award
Olivia C. Roy (ENG 2017, CMU 2018) earned a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and will graduate with a master’s in Integrated Innovation for Products and Services.
As a resident assistant in Etower, she coordinated the TowerTalks experience, offered her residents a safe space to be themselves and share their stories in an open and engaged atmosphere. In 2016, she created and managed two campus-wide storytelling events, “Here is My CMU,” for students, faculty and alumni to share their personal narratives. The program evolved into the First Lecture during Undergraduate Orientation by inviting CMU alumni to share their stories of CMU with the incoming class. This year, she has worked to expand it further into a storytelling podcast called “Pass the Mic.” Together with a group of interested students, she created a plan for the program and produced a preview that was shared at the 50th Anniversary Student Exhibition.
As a junior, Roy was selected to travel to CMU’s campus in Qatar with IMPAQT, a relationship-building program with students on CMU’s Qatar campus, and served as an ambassador between the two campuses, including leading a group of graduate students to CMU-Q to mentor students in a start-up competition.