March 19, 2002

Southwest Philadelphia's Kenya Shanik Odom Completes Internship at La Salle University's Non-Profit Management Development Center

Philadelphia----"I appreciated the student to teacher ratio, and I wanted to be close to home," says Kenya Shanik Odom, a Southwest Philadelphia resident who will graduate from La Salle University this December. She recently completed an internship at La Salle's Non-Profit Management Development Center, where she helped develop workshops for non-profit executives this December.

A Psychology major and Business Administration minor, Odom has been involved in various extra-curricular activities. As a freshman, she was treasurer and floor senator of the Resident Student Association. Since then, she has been treasurer of the African American Student League (AASL), a parliamentarian for the Leadership Council, a founding member of Diversity Congress, a funding board representative, and an active member of the Gospel Choir. She also interned at the Non-Profit Management Development.

After graduation, Odom plans on attending graduate school for industrial organizational psychology.