Haley Miller

2021 Gilman Scholar

Hometown

Ladera Ranch, CA

College

College of Liberal Arts

Major

Philosophy, Law and Society

 

Offered the Gilman Scholarship, Haley Miller fulfilled this mission by integrating her experience as a Horizons student at Purdue into creating a vision for the next steps of her professional development. Haley discovered an interest in counseling and mentoring while enrolled in a semester-long training class to become a mentor to freshmen in the Horizons program, which supports first generation college students.  Not only did she learn about the Gilman Scholarship as a Horizons student, but she was motivated to keep Horizons students informed of this opportunity by presenting her follow-on project to this audience.

Eager to build on the listening and communication skills that she gained as a mentor, Haley chose to explore psychology more deeply through a study abroad program in Vienna Austria.  In addition to learning from a different cultural and historical perspective, Haley was curious to learn from a different approach to counseling skills and mental health than one finds in the United States.