Marie Leonard

By: Daria Ricks


Marie Leonard, Sachse Freshman, is involved in SFA Young Democrats and Amnesty International. The SFA young democrats is an organization that encourages people to vote in national elections and do community service. Amnesty International is another organization that helps defend human rights for people and american citizens. The SFA Young Democrats and Amnesty International both have around 20 members and meet every week. Leonard discovered these two organizations at the freshman convocation. She grew very fond of the two organizations. She got involved and joined them both after the convocation. SFA Young Democrats and Amnesty are engaged with activities that are helping others. SFA Young Democrats are helping people to vote and make a choice on america’s next president and Amnesty International organization are sending clothes to the people of Afghanistan. She always liked politics and wants to be informed about issues. Her passion for politics started at a very young age in her life. She was really interested in american politics and the issues when she was 13 years old. “I want to be informed about politics and what’s going on in the world, because most kids don’t care or don’t know.” She believes that it is important to know about the politics and issues that are concerning the world today. Leonard was very passionate and open with her statements about her two organizations and the activities they are working on for this school year. Leonard is a sweet and interesting woman. She is 18 years old, lives in Griffith Hall and has one sister. She loves shopping and going to Starbucks. Leonard is a journalism major, but undecided on what she wants to do when she graduates from SFA.
She is involved in organizations such as Swingin Jacks and Dreambuilders. Swingin jacks is a club where they practice jazz dancing and Dreambuilders is a group of students who get together and build houses for citizens. Leonard also recognizes the needs of global improvements on her myspace page. She shows how america needs to improve on poverty and hunger globally. She is also very involved with volunteering around the campus. In the Dreambuilders organization, she volunteers on making houses for those who are without a home or homes that have been destroyed by hurricane disasters. She also loves reading books. She said, “Me and my boyfriend go to half-price books in Dallas, we go there all the time.”
She is also involved in collecting old license plates. She is very interested in license plates and started collecting them last summer. Leonard has four license plates and plans to collect a lot more in the future. She said, “ I like funky, unique stuff and I thought it would look cool in my dorm room.” She owns Montana, New Mexico, Colorado and California license plates. She started collecting them when her and a friend went to a store. “Me and my friend were in a store called Fiery Gems, and they had all these license plates on the walls and I said, ‘Hey that would be cool for my dorm room,” she said. Leonard likes to collect license plates because they are very cool and unique to have as decorations in her dorm room.