Sophia Moore-Smith attended our meeting on July 29 and spoke to the club about her involvement in Rotary Youth Exchange and her increasing involvement with Rotary. Sophia was an exchange student to Brazil for the 2018-19 school year, sponsored by the Rutland City Rotary club. After her exchange, she enrolled at NYU and this past May completed her Master's Degree in International Relations.
Sophia spoke of the benefits of spending a year on exchange and how she has applied it to her adult life. She is now the President of the Rotaract Youth Exchange Alumni club. The club is three years old and includes former outbound exchange students who were sponsored by clubs in District 7870. In addition to helping to mentor current youth exchange participants, the club is sponsoring its first inbound student, a boy from Taiwan who will be arriving in late August.