Charlize Amper

Charlize Amper is a freshman hoping to major in Biology with a Chemistry minor on the
pre-medical track. This semester, she will be traveling to New Delhi and Dehrudune, India,
during spring break with her Penn Global Seminar to explore the impacts of climate change
in India. At Penn, Charlize is Co-Director of Internal Affairs of the Penn Philippine
Association, a tutor for the West Philadelphia Tutoring Project, a volunteer with Penn’s
Special Needs Undergraduate Swim Lessons (SNUGS), and a member of Hill House
Council and The Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA). In her
free time, she enjoys doing her nails, grabbing meals with her friends, and jamming out to
music during her runs and walks. She deeply values connection and safe spaces within
different relationships in society, something that helps define not only her current
involvements, but her future career goal of a pediatric anesthesiologist.

During her her visit to India, she is particularly looking forward to…

• Traveling to sites in India to interact with different people and cultures, facilitating her value of the importance of connecting people
• Visiting the farm of Vandana Shiva, an influential Indian environmentalist who also wrote, “Soil not Oil,” the book read in her writing seminar
• Visiting the Wildlife Institute of India and the Forest Research Institute and National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities to enrich her understandings of science communication and accessibility
• Trying new Indian foods and potentially bringing some recipes back home
• Seeing and photographing the beautiful landscapes and nature scenes in India
• Continue bonding with the other members in her writing seminar