Hey everyone, I’m Henry. I’m a sophomore Economics major and the acting treasurer of GW’s TWLOHA UChapter. I’m here because I dealt with anxiety and depression throughout my teenage years, and had no success until I reached out to others for help.

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On campus I’m a member of several organizations, from the College Democrats to the Ballroom Dance Society. What brought me to TWLOHA was my friends’ involvement in the organization, both now and in the past, and the best advice I can give you is to cherish and develop your friendships. You’ll find you get out of George Washington, and life in general, what you put into it, so give us everything you’ve got.

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I’m excited to meet all of you in the coming year, whether you’re an incoming freshman or have been at GW previously and have been hiding from me.

Hey hey!  My name is Deepika Srivastava, and I'm going to be the UChapter's secretary this year.  Due to the ridiculously long nature of my name, most people call me Dee.  I'm a sophomore with a political science major and an Arabic minor originally from New York City (okay, fine, Long Island). 



 

When I was in high school, I stumbled upon a TWLOHA tent at a music festival, and I was intrigued.  Once I looked into their cause, I couldn't help but relate to it and want to be a part of it.  Its message of hope and love and self-empowerment genuinely changed the way I looked at things, and it inspired me to help other people the same way that it helped me.  To Write Love on Her Arms means a lot to me, so I hope that I can do it justice. Growing up, I was never very comfortable with the idea of talking to people about, well, anything really, but now I know that there are people out there who only want the best for me.  Depression and anxiety are okay to talk about, and that was news to me.  I want to be that confidante for other people.  Best to get the corny part out of the way quickly =P



When I'm not busy being the best TWLOHA council member I can be, I like to stay politically active on and off campus and be involved in serving our community.  Knowing you made a difference in someone's life is probably the best feeling in the entire world.  Some of the other student orgs I'm involved in are the GW College Democrats, GW STAND, Green GW, and an up-and-coming org called DC Students Speak.



 

Being a part of the TWLOHA family at GW is undoubtedly going to be one of the best parts of my sophomore year.  I can only imagine how many wonderful people it'll bring together.  The bonds that have formed between our eboard when we were working on all the logistics of setting up our UChapter were just the beginning of all the fun we're going to have.

Executive Board

​Individually, we are students in Washington, DC, but together we make up the team behind the scenes of the

To Write Love on Her Arms UChapter here at The George Washington University.

Hello, loves. My name is Ericka Anne and I am the president of the George Washington University To Write Love On Her Arms UChapter. I am currently a Sophomore here at GW and I am a candidate for a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science - basically, in less-complicated terms, that means I’m studying pre-law! I intend on graduating in 2015 with my degree then continuing grad/law school in London. Crazy aspirations, but if I work hard enough, I can do it.

Though it is my second year here, it is my first year being involved with TWLOHA on the UChapter level. When I heard about being able to bring TWLOHA to my university my first week of Freshman year, I jumped right on it. At first, I didn’t get involved with much on campus aside from the sorority I joined (yeah Phi Sig!). However, as time passed, I worked endless days and nights to bring TWLOHA to Washington, DC.

I hope that through GW's TWLOHA UChapter, someone will find the help they need even when they don’t explicitly ask for it. Being someone who has had very close ties with all that TWLOHA embodies, I have all the hope in the world that it can help someone the way it has helped me. George Washington is a campus of diversity and we learn new things about each other every single day. If, by the end of my college career, just one person learns that rescue and help are available, I would have reached my goal in starting this UChapter. I hope that I have a chance to meet all of you within my time here and that you benefit from then the way that I have.

Life is more than just trying to make it to the top - it’s making it through each and every day, making today better than your last. There may be days when you feel like you’ve risked it all and got hurt, days where your cure hurt more than the sickness, days where you just feel like you fell. But in the end, it doesn’t matter how much time you spend on the ground, but the amount of times you get up and dust yourself off to do better.

I’ve lived through my past. I’m loving the present.

And I look to the future with nothing but hope.

Hi! I’m Sharon (in the blue, on the left!) and I’m the VP and co-founder of the UChapter here at GW.  I’m currently studying Psychology with a concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience, with a completely unrelated minor in Fine Arts!  :3  I’ll be entering my third year of college this fall, but this will only be my second semester at GWU since I transferred in from Liberty. 

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I discovered To Write Love when I was a junior in high school, and ever since then the organization has been something near and dear to my heart.  I think the beauty of TWLOHA lies in its emphasis on people, on community - on friendships, relationships, and the happiness therein.  It is my wish that our UChapter be a place of friendship, community and joy :)  I’m pretty quiet at first, but I really do like people and I’m always up for a cup of tea and good conversation with a new friend.   I look forward to the adventures our chapter will have this year! :)

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