GoFundMe

Find Fallon Schneider’s GoFundMe link at www.gofundme.com/32yfvapt

Sequim Gazette staff

As a member of the Irrigation Festival royalty, Fallon Schneider toured the state for various events and since graduating in 2011, she’s been halfway across the world.

Now, she’s hoping the community that boosted her during her late high school days can help with the next step of her education.

Schneider is looking to earn her master’s degree via the Social and Sustainable Management graduate program at Seattle Pacific University. While she has a funding plan, the cost of the second part of the program that takes her and fellow students to India and China is quite costly.

“For this reason, after my number-crunching and budget-writing, I am hoping to earn $5,000 through GoFundMe by August, in order to aid me in my trip to Asia during fall quarter,” Schneider writes on her GoFundMe page (www.gofundme.com/32yfvapt).

Since graduating, Schneider earned a bachelor’s degree in 2015 from the University of Washington during which she studied abroad twice: once to Ecuador and once to Spain while pursuing her Spanish language minor. She majored in Society, Ethics and Human Behavior, and also earned a certificate of Social Enterprise, inspiring a passion for nonprofit work. She has worked at a low-income, inner-city preschool teaching literacy curriculum through AmeriCorps and is now working at an elementary school as the family advocate and as site coordinator for an after-school program.

“As a first-generation college student, none of this would have been made possible without the community support that I received from the town that I call home,” she writes. “The scholarships that I received from community groups such as Rotary Club of Sequim and Kiwanis of Sequim as a high school senior in 2011 helped me to open doors and take advantage of opportunities that I never even knew existed.”