Jade Zhao 赵郎溪

Student life

HHSP Program Assistant work with the Office of Student Life. First-generation student. Campus work that asks me to show up, make the room more navigable, and help someone else keep their agency in it.

Thank you to the people who staff HHSP events.

A first-generation path is not a brand story with the hard parts removed. It is rooms, people, setup, questions, and the small work that helps someone else see a way through.

Program Assistant

I'm a first-generation student. As a Program Assistant for HHSP I help at campus events and with the quieter setup that makes those hours run ... chairs, check-in, the odd job nobody put on a flyer. Those details are not background; they decide whether a room feels possible to enter.

S.U.C.C.E.E.D.

Scholarship, Uplift, Community, Creativity, Empowerment, Engagement, and Development. Not a list of traits; a set of ways to make opportunity more usable.

Scholarship

  • I led a session at the IU 2025 Leadership Conference on 8 February 2025. Here is Mimi Attenoukon's IU page.
  • I tutored Luddy I204 lightly when classmates needed a second pass at the material.
  • When the Kelley calendar lined up, I sat in on lunch-and-learns about grad school and Women in Business.

Uplift

  • I was a FaSE mentee for a year. Regular check-ins helped with career, clubs, and social life.
  • I stuffed Finals Survival Kits and wrote encouraging notes for newer students.
  • I joined Chopping It Up once ... a short conversation that felt useful without a big agenda.

Community

  • In November and December 2024 I helped at bingo, trivia, and a holiday PJ party ... setup and tear-down, calling bingo numbers, grading trivia sheets.
  • I checked people in at a study abroad fair on 11 November 2024.
  • Serve IT since January 2024, including clinic work for partners who need a site they can keep. The pages. Role bullets on Volunteering.
  • Middle Way House, fall 2024. WordPress redesign with Serve IT ... about 84 volunteer hours.
  • Girls Who Code: front-end and digital literacy instructor for 50+ students. Details on Volunteering.

Creativity

  • I went on a Music of the Silk Road museum tour ... music, objects, and a quieter afternoon than a typical campus day.
  • I made a FaSE vision board when the programme offered the workshop.
  • Expressions of Wellness was a small pause in a busy term.

Engagement

  • I studied on the IU Madrid English track at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) from 12 January to 29 May 2026.
  • I sat with the HHSP table at the 55th Neal-Marshall gala on 19 October 2024.
  • I helped at HHSP and Asian Culture Center (ACC) open houses, stopped by La Casa's fair, and represented FaSE carefully at CultureFest.

Development

  • Luddy Career Fair, 19 September 2024. I met employers and an MSIS (Master of Science in Information Systems) recruiter.
  • Two Serve IT x Deloitte talks, in October and November 2024, on consulting and how alumni got there.
  • I took part in an LCA x MSIS case competition in December 2024.

The campus videos are on the Handshake page, with a link to my Handshake profile.

jlzhao@iu.edu