My music writing career began in my sophomore year of high school when I traded extracurricular sports for music and took a weekly one-hour class taught by Dr. Kenneth Lampl, who through skill, constant encouragement and patience, awakened in me a talent for writing music I had no idea I possessed. Having always admired great songwriters who made an impact on listeners, I strove to do the same and one of the first songs I wrote was “Don’t Let Them In,” intended to empower bullying victims by encouraging them to be true to themselves and to not let bullies’ hurtful words into their hearts. After placing the song online, I began receiving messages from victims across the globe that “Don’t Let Them In” comforted and empowered them to face their bullies, and even saved a few lives. It won awards from Seventeen Magazine and Abercrombie & Fitch, was featured in radio and online publications, but the ultimate reward was getting messages like the one I recently received from a chronically bullied girl in the Philippines who said my song convinced her to abandon her second attempt at suicide and her relentless pursuit to please bullies who she now knows will never like her.

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