1420 Viking Drive, South Bend, IN 46628 (574) 339-8252 cklosk01@saintmarys.edu
Education
Saint Joseph’s High School
Saint Mary’s College
Awards & Honors
Saint Joseph’s High School Honors Award
National Honors Society Certificate
Daughter of American Revolution Award
2007-2011
2011-
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Clubs, Affiliations, and Extracurricular Activities
Saint Joseph’s H.O.P.E.
Moderator: Mrs. Susan Lightcap
Responsibilities: Delivered baked goods to sisters at
Saint Mary’s convent; Thanksgiving Food Drive; Driver
Saint Joseph’s NHS (National Honors Society)
Moderator: Mrs. Deborah Semmler
Responsibilities: Tutoring high school students and various activities for the Saint Joseph Community; DJ for
NHS Halloween Party for the Mental Health Association
Saint Joseph’s Creative Writing Club
Moderator: Mr. Al Wylie
Responsibilities: Write stories and poems to share with the group and edit the writings of others
Saint Joseph’s Spanish Club
Moderator: Mr. Ricardo Rios
Responsibilities: Involving the Spanish culture by
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Saint Joseph’s SADD Club
Moderator: Mrs. Yvonne Rex 9 th , 10 th
Responsibilities: Informing students on how to make
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Saint Joseph’s Photo Club
Moderator: Mr. Jack Kapsa 11 th
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Responsibilities: Taking photography and developing in the Dark Room
Saint Joseph’s GREIA tutoring
Moderators: Mrs. Kim Coleman and Mrs. Susan
Kostielney
Responsibilities: Tutoring grade school students in all subjects
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Saint Joseph’s Bowling Club
Moderators/Coaches: Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stankiewicz
Responsibilities: Team Captain- senior year
Saint Joseph’s Ministry
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Moderators: Mrs. Tami Goy and Mrs.Walatka
Responsibilities: Freshman and Sophomore Retreat Leader;
Eucharistic Minister
Saint Mary’s Ministry
First Year
Moderators: Mrs. Regina Wilson
Responsibilities: Eucharistic Minister and Greeter
Saint Mary’s Friends with Sisters
First Year
Moderators: Katelynd Memmott
Responsibilities: Spend time with a nun from the Campus’
Congregation
Saint Mary’s CAT Tutoring Program
First Year
Moderators: Olivia Critchlow
Responsibilities: Tutor grade school students;
Teacher assistant
Saint Mary’s Spirit Week
Moderators: Ashley Hall and Emily Murphy
Responsibilities: Lead Pep Rally with Emily Murphy;
Set up games and activities for students
Encuentro Summer Camp at Saint Mary’s College
Moderators: Adriana Rodriguez and other various college students, Dr. Stacy Davis
Responsibilities: Learning about the Feminist Movement and Women’s educational studies throughout history
IUSB Leadership Academy
First Year
July 2009
June-July 2010
Moderators: Director Deidra Tuner, Karen L. White,
Dr. Monica Tetzlaff, Dr. Hayley Froysland, Mike Polacari,
Vanessa Jackson, Cynthia Murphy-Wardlow, Jonathan Jones, and Amanda Serenvy
Responsibilities: Taking college courses in math, history, and writing
Service Experience
Saint Joseph’s Work For Saint Joe
Responsibilities: Cleaning and raking yards for the community
Saint Joseph’s GREIA tutoring
Moderators: Mrs. Kim Coleman and Mrs. Sue
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Kostielney
Responsibilities: see previous listing
Saint Mary’s Friends with Sisters
See previous listing
Saint Mary’s CAT tutoring
See previous listing
Hannah and Friends
Moderator: Mrs. Sharon Bui Green
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Responsibilities: Mopping and clerical work
Center for the Homeless
Moderators: various volunteers/ workers
Responsibilities: Cleaning office area and conversing with the residents
Women’s Care Center
Moderators: various volunteers/ workers
Responsibilities: Cleaning the center and clerical
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Corpus Christi After School Program
Moderator: Mrs. Colleen McNamara
Responsibilities: Tutor grade school students
Work Experience
Dairy Queen
Manager: Rick Hummer
Responsibilities: Serve customers/cashier
Saint Mary’s Dining Hall
Manager: Barry Bowles
Responsibilities: various tasks in the kitchen
Hobbies
Poetic Writing and short stories
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September 2011-present
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NOTE : Below I have included a piece of my own writing. The following is written about the
Occupy Wall Street movement and the class inequality of the United States.

America’s Power Struggle
They come from all walks of life, demanding not only the attention of government officials, but also the viewers of the entire country. Their only request is a change in the monetary system; they yearn for equilibrium in the class system. Members of the Occupy Wall
Street movement are aggravated with the top one-percent of individuals in the United States who are extraordinary and unjustly wealthy. The members no longer want to be controlled by the upper class society. Occupy protestors assemble to take back what they deserve: money.
Members of the lower, working, and middle class have band together to end a greedy nation. The rise of the minority classes is a “riot of many colors” that is fighting to defeat the economic monsters of the United States (Hampson). America is now a nation of class revolt; the superrich are slowly being attacked by the majority who are under their manipulative power. Banding together, individuals are no longer looking at race or ethnic background, but the dispute is over money and power.
The top one-percent of upper class Americans has little to fear about due to their manipulative control over minority classes. The superrich live their lives surrounding their wealth, but they hold power as one of their best advantages. The author, Jonathan Dee, illustrates the worry free lifestyle of the superrich in his novel, The Privileges . He depicts a well-off family, simply “living the big life, a life that was larger than life” (Dee 170). Throughout the novel, the
Morey family enjoys the safety net of the father’s income, although, little does the family know, is dishonest money. The Moreys see “money [as] just [an] instrument” to satisfy every little desire and need that they had. Dee describes the family’s interactions solely based on businesslike interactions. The parents care little about what their children do, and vice versa. With no financial worries and a limitless lifestyle, the Morey family dismisses any personal relations with

one another. As the family runs into issues involving car accidents, drugs, and death, they continue to drown their feelings with the superficial and material: money. The upper class of the superrich have the privilege to let the value of money wash away any life struggles, but as for the classes below them, they struggle just to survive day to day.
Members of the high class social life in the American society today have been privileged to live the satisfying and luxurious lifestyles that they desire. However, this small percentage of individuals easily forgets that the majority below their ranking are fighting for a change.
Occupiers are “fighting against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations” of the United States (
Occupy Wall Street ). Those who are involved with million dollar corporations, and extremely satisfying paychecks, are able to forget about any worries, financially. As they live their high societal lives, Americans below them reap no benefits from low paying jobs. The stingy fingers of the haughty suffice their class alone. While the high class receive a break in money struggles, “over half of Americans, [striving], are making less than
40,000 dollars per year” (OccupyAnimato). The upper class minority live a life simply ignoring any individuals below in ranking.
With little voice in the American society, the classes who are made up of the majority of
Americans are slowly being forgotten. The middle, working, and lower class have been scrutinized by the overpowering minority of upper class individuals. Millions work “pay check to pay check, watching as their debts pile-up,” while others cannot even afford to buy a daily meal (Warren 182). As the lower ranked classes deal with the economic crisis, the upper class members have simply forgotten those who are below them. Many members who are in the middle class are being “left empty-handed” due to the greed of “Wall Street executives and others who own lots of stock” (Warren 181). America claims to be a “middle class society”

however, half of its citizens reside below middle class. Those searching for a rise in class begin to realize the dream of meritocracy is only a myth. Meritocracy is a system that states “the best will rise to the top” (Wang). Parents working to pay for endless bills and high mortgages only hope that their work will pay off for the future of their children. Intergenerational mobility seems to be a common theme for individuals of lower, working, and middle class. However, while living during a time of economic crisis, parents can only hope for a brighter future. The worth of a dollar seems to be stretched more and more, as additional members add to the middle, working, and lower classes.
The rich seem to be getting richer, while the poor are getting poorer. Those who see
America as a place of class equality soon realize the falsity behind class rankings. As described in the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
, by Junot Díaz, the United States is a place where meritocracy is only a guarantee to those who are already wealthy. The idea of intragenerational mobility is a myth that only the upper class members can hold onto.
Intragenerational mobility is social mobility for the next generations; a hope that children will be better off than their parents (Wang). Díaz describes the life of a Dominican immigrant woman who learns bitterly that meritocracy is only a fictional temptation created by wealthy Americans.
By coming to America, Beli soon realizes that “the backbreaking drudgery of the factorías [and] the loneliness of Diaspora” will never provide a sufficient and Americanized lifestyle that she desires (Díaz 164). Always being part of the working class, Beli continues to attempt to live a prosperous life in the United States; however her dream is never fully reached. The misconception of America as the land of the wealthy and prosperous is only an entitlement to those who already obtain both qualities. Upward mobility is next to impossible, and the class system is full of inequality.

As a people united of all ethnicities, the Occupy activists are determined to find some prosperity in their hard work. Ranging from unemployment to college graduates, even recent immigrants, the Occupy movement looks promising. Ending the capitalist view of private ownership and competition allows the majority of lower and middle class members hope for jobs that are worth working for. Jobs, which not only pay for the bills, but provide the freedom to live as a true American, are what these protestors are waiting for. The lifelong dream to be an
American with a family, a house, and a financial safety net is a goal in which Occupiers wish to obtain. Meritocracy is what America claims, which causes people of all backgrounds to flock to her land; however it needs to find an equity factor for all citizens alike.
Class inequality is becoming a more influential issue than racial discrimination in the
United States. People of all racial and ethnic background want a say where America’s wealth is going. Occupy protestors are giving a voice to the majority who are tired of the ruling class.
They are searching for a way to stop them from dominating the entire American society. Rather than being manipulated, the protestors are attempting to resolve the power struggle. The United
States claims to be a society of class equality, however, the wealth of the country is being divided unevenly. The American values of prosperity, wealth, and prestige are now only being limited to those of the upper class, while those in lower classes eagerly try to reach it, but are never able to fully obtain all three. Occupy Wall Street is a people’s assembly who declare that,
“as one people, formerly divided by the color of [their] skin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or lack thereof, political party and cultural background, [they] acknowledge the reality: that there is only one race, the human race…” in which they wish to protect and save from overpowering prosperous (Alcinador). The power struggle of the United States is no longer about a dominating white race, but is now over manipulative CEOs and politicians taking over what belongs to all

classes. The division of wealth is creating class inequality. Classism has created a rival in the so called “middle class” United States; capitalism has created an imbalance amongst its citizens, especially for lower and middle class. Therefore, the time has come where Americans are fighting once again against a new social injustice.