“Don’t stay in your comfort zone. Your comfort zone is not going to get you anywhere. Make the experience what you want. Make it a journey.”
That’s the message Faith Odiete wants to share with graduates when she takes the commencement stage on May 9 as this year’s IUPUI undergraduate student speaker.
Odiete is an IUPUI Honors College scholar graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and a minor in leadership in military science. In her two years at IUPUI, she became a Top 10 student and was deeply involved on campus and in the community. Odiete is part of IUPUI’s ROTC program as well as the IU Cadet Officer Program, which has helped her take everything she learned in the classroom and put it into practice.