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significant roles, such as helping plan ICPF’s first virtual Dialogue Dinner and its first virtual Teleconference, con- tributing new ideas to ICPF programs, and connecting personally with students across the country who seek to get more involved in learning about corrugated packaging careers. It was incredible to help guide these students to
ICPF not only wanted me to consider a corrugated pack- aging career, but believed in abilities I did not even know I had. This organization, the Dialogue Dinner, Teleconfer- ence, and especially its president, contributed to a huge turning point for me personally and professionally. Person- ally, ICPF has dramatically impacted the projection of my career path by introducing me to opportunities, scholar- ships, executives, and students that have aided my under- standing of the corrugated packaging and display industry and packaging in general. I wanted to get more involved with ICPF to help further their mission to spread aware- ness, provide resources, and connect students with op- portunities “to generate a stream of increasingly qualified individuals to enter the corrugated packaging industry, now and into the future”. The following year after the Teleconference, I sought out and moved up through various leadership roles with both UF’s Packaging Club and ICPF. I was elected pres- ident of the UF Packaging Club and worked toward ex- panding our diversity and inclusivity of students from other majors and backgrounds. During this time, I also became an ICPF Student UF Campus Representative, which al- lowed me to expose students around me to ICPF events and resources. I later became an ICPF Student Advisory Board Member and ICPF’s Student Program Manager In- tern. These ICPF positions allowed me to take on more
having the same eye-opening experience as I had at my first ICPF event! I was honored to be given the opportunity to moderate ICPF’s 2021 Teleconference on the Business of Corrugat- ed Packaging & Displays. Despite the difficulties of plan- ning and producing an impactful Teleconference during a Kelsea served as a moderator during ICPF’s 2021 teleconfer- ence on the Business of Corrugated Packaging & Displays.
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