{"id":40802278219,"date":"2023-11-10T15:57:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802278219"},"modified":"2023-11-22T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T22:45:07","slug":"junior-ceilie-reynolds-named-phenomenal-woman-under-40-by-girl-scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/junior-ceilie-reynolds-named-phenomenal-woman-under-40-by-girl-scouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Ceilie Reynolds Named Phenomenal Woman Under 40"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ceilie Reynolds, a junior political science student with a focus in environmental science, was recently named one of the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore\u2019s 2023 Phenomenal Women Under 40<\/a>. Reynolds was one of 10 women selected for this award, which recognizes honorees for their \u201coutstanding achievements in the community, exemplary character, and their passion to defy the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe recognition means a great deal to me and to my family, both because I was a Girl Scout of the Jersey Shore, but also because it means that now these girls have someone a little bit closer to their age to look up to as a role model,\u201d Reynolds, one of this year\u2019s youngest honorees, explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After initially completing her freshman year at Fairfield University, Reynolds chose to pursue her love of scuba diving, spending six months getting certified as a master scuba dive instructor on an island off the coast of Honduras. Upon returning to the U.S., she was involved in a near fatal accident, sustaining serious cranial issues, a collapsed lung, and multiple broken bones and face, preventing her from returning to school right away and pursuing her dream of becoming a scuba instructor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since recovering and transferring to Monmouth, Reynolds has been working toward a career that will combine her passion for politics and the environment while being actively involved in multiple local philanthropic organizations, including the Monmouth Park Charity Fund, The Beauty Foundation for Cancer Care, and Clean Ocean Action. More recently, she has begun working with the Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey, the American Heart Association, and The Human Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am grateful that I have found a place to call my educational home,\u201d Reynolds said of Monmouth, specifically acknowledging the availability of advisers in the political science department for one-on-one discussions. \u201cI have been exposed to many different educational styles and viewpoints [here] that I feel are unique to the Monmouth community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While pursuing her bachelor\u2019s degree, Reynolds has also worked closely with the Department of Disability Services, which has helped facilitate accommodations to provide a path for success. She added, \u201cMonmouth University has never made me feel like a disabled student. Here, I have always felt like a student with some disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reynolds hopes that her story is an inspiration to those struggling to overcome obstacles in their own lives. \u201cYou are never alone,\u201d she said, \u201cso don\u2019t ever give up!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reynolds was one of 10 women selected for this award by the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore, which recognizes honorees for their \u201coutstanding achievements in the community, exemplary character, and their passion to defy the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40802278221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,414,221,212,444,191],"tags":[],"person":[3647],"audience":[],"school":[59,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802278219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-publications-research","category-campus-life","category-community-service","category-giving-back","category-monmouth-now","category-personalized-education","person-ceilie-reynolds","school-political-science-sociology","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802278219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802278219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802278219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802278328,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802278219\/revisions\/40802278328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802278221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802278219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802278219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802278219"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802278219"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802278219"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802278219"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802278219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}