Eli Prosper

Binghamton University Liberty Partnerships Program Alumni

Graduation Class of 2012

Years in Liberty: The first encounter that I can remember with Liberty Partnership was as a student at East Middle School. I believe that I began the program during the 7th grade with Mr. Cole, Mr. Andre, and Mr. Dan. College: I am a graduate of Ohio Christian University. A small school in southern Ohio, about 45 minutes south of Columbus, Oh. The school had about 450 students on campus and approximately 4,500 students online. I graduated from this University with a dual Bachelor’s Degree in Emergency Management & Business.

Current profession: Currently I am serving as a Team Leader in the educational non-profit organization known as City Year in Philadelphia. City Year is an organization dedicated to lowering the drop-out rate throughout the United States. City Year has 28 sites across the nation and including three international sites in the United Kingdom and South Africa.

Positive quote: “To plant the seed of the tree, even if you won’t be able to sit under its shade.” I use this quote as a reminder to myself that all my past mentors have spent hours of investing their time, resources, and currency with nothing to base their investment off of but hope. Hope that I would graduate high school, hope that I would excel through college, and hope that I would become a functional and active citizen in today’s society. Without that investment and without that blind faith that I would turn out be a functioning member in our society, as the saying goes “I would not be where I am today.” Liberty Partnerships provided me with some of those mentors, and even though I don’t spend any time with them now, I hope that they would be proud of the strong “tree” that they assisted in planting all those years ago.