Anna Schilling Joins National Youth Leadership Council for Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots

2017 Feb 16

This month, Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots, the Jane Goodall Institute's global environmental and humanitarian youth program announced the new class of members accepted to the program's 2017 National Youth Leadership Council. Among those appointed was Anna Schilling, a member of the local Lake Bluff community.

Anna is a freshman at Lake Forest Academy. She graduated from Lake Forest Country Day School in 2016 where she was the recipient of the Mary Ballard Community Service Award. This award honors a student who demonstrates leadership and a commitment to serve others with respect and compassion. She has worked with Bernie's Book Bank, the LFCDS WOLVES program, Puente Latino Food Bank, and Feed My Starving Children. Anna is currently in the Certificate program of the Center for Conservation Leadership where she works to protect the natural resources of her community

Throughout the year ahead, Anna and the members of the Council will participate in comprehensive skills trainings with Roots & Shoots staff and field experts and they will represent the Jane Goodall Institute as youth mentors and experts locally and abroad. The new group of Council members joins dozens of other Roots & Shoots leaders who have been a part of theCouncil since its inception in 2003. For more than a decade, the Roots & Shoots youth leadership program has provided Council members with amazing opportunities that have paved their way toward incredible university academic experiences and successful careers as change-makers and community leaders.

To learn more about Anna, and the National Youth Leadership Council visit http://rootsandshoots.org/nylc .