Meet Lucia, another 2022 Scholarship recipient! Lucia Link is a freshman at Barnard studying art history, but also interested in potentially minoring in French and English. Lucy’s favorite food is sushi or matcha, and she loves to dance. She says: “I love being able to just move. it’s blending being artistic and working out. I feel very fulfilled when I dance!”
Right now, Lucia is particularly enjoying an education class focused on pedagogy and how children learn. “It’s opened my eyes and helped me look back at my schooling in Red Hook,” she says. Lucy hasn’t found academics to be the most challenging part of her freshman year. Instead, she says, “it’s actually coping with living on my own even though I’m only two hours away. It was challenging navigating how to interact with people in that setting.”
Like fellow scholarship recipient Ava (featured here), Lucy misses the beauty of Red Hook and the small town feeling. "I went to Taste Budds and saw people I knew, it made me feel comforted being at home. I took for granted how wonderful the area we live in is.” Over the summer, Lucy will be back in the area working at Migliorelli’s farm stand.
Recently, Lucy went through rigorous training for a club called Meet Me at the Museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the “Met”) charges schools a lot for official tours, and Meet Me at the Museum provides a free tour option for kids! “Making sure that there’s equity in those fields is really exciting!,” says Lucy. Lucy is also enjoying another arts-focused club called Artists Reaching Out, where Barnard students make art lesson plans and travel to schools to give those lessons.
Our last question to Lucy, in honor of Women’s History Month, was: if you could sit down with any woman who would you choose? Her choice: Audrey Hepburn. Not only was she an actress, but also a ballet dancer. In World War 2, she was stuck in the Netherlands and gave dance performances to support the resistance!