She still can’t get it out of her head.
In Jun2019, Rainer marched in the National Puerto Rican Parade in New York City after winning the scholarship.
It’s the Bible verse from Luke 12:48: To whom much is given, much is required. But she didn’t know those eight words came from the Bible. She spotted them when she was a freshman at High Point University. She walked into the Hayworth Fine Arts Center to attend the Life Skills Seminar taught by HPU President Dr. Nido Qubein and looked up.
Right beyond the entrance were those eight words.
She thinks about those words today because the New Testament verse encapsulates her personal mission since coming to HPU. She’s helped create the university’s first two Latinx student organizations, studied abroad in Chile for HPU’s 2019 Maymester Program, and has become an important voice for diversity and inclusion on campus.