Wake Forest junior Shoshanna Goldin honored for work in community

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WINSTON SALEM, NC (11/11/2013)(readMedia)-- Shoshanna Goldin, a junior at Wake Forest University, has received a 2013 Community Impact Student Award. Given by North Carolina Campus Compact, an association of colleges and universities committed to fostering campus-community engagement, the award recognizes one outstanding student on each campus for making a difference in the community. Goldin is one of nineteen students across the state to be honored.

Goldin is a driving force in Wake Forest's focus on hunger issues. She founded and chairs the Hunger Advisory Board and was a key member of the committee that coordinated the 2013 NC Campuses Against Hunger statewide event, delivering the opening address and leading a seminar on social change. Goldin has also served as Community Service chair and President of Hillel, a member of the Social Action Collaborative, and a member of Wake's Interfaith Council. She led an effort to eliminate the use of disposable water bottles on campus and was a Unite for Sight Global Fellow in India. Goldin is a Global Health major from Allentown, Pennsylvania.

"Shoshanna extends herself in every area of her life to be inclusive and aware and to raise those qualities in others," said Norma-May Isakow, Associate Director of the Institute for Public Engagement at Wake Forest. "She's really a joy and an inspiration to work with."

Goldin and other award winners were honored recently at North Carolina Campus Compact's annual student conference. Now in its 20th year, the conference was held November 2 at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte. Nearly 200 student leaders from 28 campuses in 3 states attended.

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North Carolina Campus Compact is a statewide association of nearly 40 colleges and universities that seek to develop civically-engaged students and strengthen communities. Presidents and chancellors commit their institutions to being "engaged campuses" that enhance a student's sense of responsibility, citizenship, and leadership, and impact the community by partnering with local organizations to address real needs. For more information about the Compact or the student conference, visit www.nccampuscompact.org.