Student Wellbeing Advocacy (Hoyawell) |Georgetown University Student Assocation

Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Completed
Dates: May 2020 – August 2021

Quick Project Overview

As Director of Student Wellness Policy within Georgetown’s Student Association, I led a multi-team initiative to reimagine campus wellbeing—integrating mental health, public health, sustainability, and safety through policy design and partnership building. The role focused on translating student needs into actionable, systemic change during a critical period of transition and uncertainty.

• Context & Background

  The onset of COVID-19 reshaped how students accessed health, safety, and community. My role emerged in response to this need: coordinating cross-campus wellbeing policy and ensuring students had access to equitable support systems. The position required combining policy strategy with empathy-driven design to strengthen trust between the student body and university leadership.

• Collaborators & Partners

  • Georgetown University Health & Education Services

  • Office of Student Equity & Inclusion

  • Black Survivors Coalition

  • Office of Sustainability

  • Peer student policy councils and advocacy groups

• My Role & What We Accomplished

  I managed four policy teams—each focusing on mental health, student health, sustainability, and student safety—ensuring strategic alignment and measurable impact. Together, we:

  • Launched HoyaWell, a university-wide telehealth partnership offering free 24/7 virtual therapy and psychiatric care to all students.

  • Developed Me, Myself, and Mind, an online platform connecting students with identity-based and culturally responsive mental health resources.

  • Implemented systemic policy changes, including required sexual assault prevention training for incoming students and expanded survivor support resources.

  • Led a university-wide COVID-19 safety campaign, combining social media, digital outreach, and public health messaging.

  • Established the Sustainable Business Fellows Program and supported the development of Georgetown’s Environmental Studies major to integrate sustainability across disciplines.

  • Facilitated four virtual town halls and student surveys to gather qualitative insights and co-design wellbeing policy priorities with the student body.

• Outputs

  • Institutional launch of HoyaWell telehealth service (featured by Georgetown University)

  • “Me, Myself, and Mind” digital resource hub

  • Student health advocacy committee for cross-campus coordination

  • Sustainable Business Fellows Program and Environmental Studies major proposal

  • Four virtual town halls and policy briefs on health and safety

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• Tools Used

  • Asana for project coordination

  • Canva and Google Workspace for campaign design and strategy

  • Zoom for virtual facilitation and stakeholder engagement

  • Survey tools for data collection and feedback analysis

Impact & Learning

This experience deepened my belief that systemic wellbeing is built through collaboration, not compliance. I learned how to navigate institutional change, align diverse teams under shared goals, and transform moments of crisis into opportunities for community redesign. Most of all, it showed me that student leadership can be a laboratory for real systems innovation—where care becomes a form of policy.