Clifton Park’s Tighe named Campus Leader

ALBANY (Feb. 26) — Clifton Park native Amy Tighe, a junior majoring in public policy at the University at Albany, has been selected to participate in the 2010 Campus Leaders Today, Community Leaders Tomorrow (CLT2) program.

CLT2 helps college students across the country learn the leadership and networking skills necessary for serving their communities through executive positions on boards of nonprofit organizations.

Clifton Park native Amy Tighe

Clifton Park native Amy Tighe will get an inside look at the world of nonprofits through her participation in the 2010 Campus Leaders Today, Community Leaders Tomorrow program. (Photo by Mark Schmidt)

Tighe has been active in community outreach since entering UAlbany as a transfer student in the fall 2008. In 2009, Tighe was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK), an honor-based coed fraternity on the university’s campus.

“I absolutely love this program and feel it gives me phenomenal opportunities and preparation for a career in the public and/or political sector,” Tighe said.

This semester Tighe began training as a peer outreach educator with Middle Earth, a campus organization that hosts a peer-assistance hotline and an outreach program. The group works to educate students about every aspect of campus life.

“My training as an outreach peer educator has given me the opportunity to get more involved and give back to people at the university,” she said.

Omicron Delta Kappa is a national collegiate leadership honor society that recognizes and encourages students with superior scholarship and leadership. ODK sponsors the CLT2 program and was also the first organization that Tighe became involved in once she arrived at Albany.

“Our president of ODK circle was telling us of his experiences at CLT2 and what a phenomenal, unique experience it was,” Tighe said. The program complements her interests in sexual education and gay rights, religious tolerance and a leadership position in a non-profit organization in the future. “It felt like such a program was tailored to someone with these kinds of goals — goals that are very important to me.”

Tighe hopes the skills that she gains from the CLT2 program, Middle Earth and her public policy courses will lead to making progressive change towards a more tolerant, accepting society. Tighe believes her acceptance into the leadership program will aid her in serving in a non-profit administrative role or lobbyist position.

“Really,” she said, “it’s still pretty hard for me to believe.”

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