Sabrina Briggs, who will graduate in the summer with a communication and social influence degree, has a strong footing in community service.

Briggs is the director of a non-profit organization called Spark The Wave. The organization’s mission is to empower young students to serve as strong community leaders and give back through community service.

She has been with Spark The Wave since 2016, and she was promoted to director in January. Before that, Briggs served as deputy program manager and program manager. She said being director has given her the chance to affect the organization on a wider scale.

“Now, I’m taking on the execution and management of Wave Week. As program manager, I oversaw the smaller aspects of our curriculum, but now it’s more the management of our staff and how the curriculum is set in stone for our audience and delegates,” she said.

Wave Week is a week-long intensive training session to teach students service and leadership skills. There are two sessions this coming summer in July, both at Villanova University.

Briggs also works at Fairmount Ventures, an organization that offers strategic planning and campaign support for non-profits. The organization has worked with the Special Olympics, Temple University and the City of Philadelphia. It’s another way for her to work in public service.

Briggs attributes her drive for service to her parents. Her mother worked in public health and her dad was a community figure.

“It’s ingrained in me to give back and want to see the world become a sustainable, loving place,” she said.

When Briggs graduates in the summer, she would love to still work for Spark The Wave. She wants to work in corporate responsibility fields, too.

“I love when companies want to give back,” she said. “They want to sustain the neighborhoods and communities that they work within. I love the idea that sometimes those corporations don’t necessarily know how to give back, so asking the right personnel to organize and lead those efforts is kind of what I want to get into.”

Briggs didn’t exactly know what path she wanted to take when she came into Temple, but she knew one thing for sure.

“All I knew is that I wanted to work in an environment that was giving back,” she said.