This is a really beneficial and important organization.  My dad practices medicine and growing up I was always aware of the issues surrounding high versus low income areas and the healthcare that is available to them.  In the time that I have spent reflecting on it, I have become more and more convinced that education is almost as, if not just as important an issue for these low income communities as healthcare.  A quality education is absolutely essential to creating opportunities for kids that can affect them for the rest of their lives.  The difference in the quality of education that low income communities face is completely unfair.  How can we expect people from lower income areas to compete with everyone else in the professional world when they have not had the same academic opportunities?  Teach for America is an organization that helps to end this inequity.  I was reccommended for an internship with them next year (ok, I didn’t get it, but I would encourage others to apply next year!) where they ask a student on clemson’s campus to promote and recruit for teach for america.  I actually only became really interested in the organization after the campus coordinator came to speak to my chapter about applying to teach.  I have never been interested in teaching before but something about the way he presented it sparked my interest.  Maybe it was that this is about so much more than teaching; it’s about changing lives and changing our world for the better.  This position is perfect for those interested Public Relations and Marketing and it’s something that I think any one of the public relations students would really enjoy doing.  You must be comfortable speaking to organizations or classes and, perhaps more importantly, speaking one-on-one with people who are interested in joining the corps.  It may even be beneficial to use online social media tools like a blog, twitter account or facebook group to market Teach for America on Clemson’s campus.  I think that the experience that I would gain in helping to promote Teach for America on campus would be invaluable in the real world and it would be such a privilege to gain this experience while promoting something that is so important.