Woodstock Girl Scout To Be Honored During Gold Award Ceremony

WOODSTOCK, GA — Woodstock Girl Scout Ambassador, Alanis "Laney" Broussard, will be honored as a part of the 2021 Gold Award Ceremony, celebrating an accomplishment that less than 6 percent of Girl Scouts from across the country achieve.

On March 7, which is also International Women’s Day and the first day of Girl Scout Week, the 94 local Girl Scouts will be honored at a socially-distant ceremony at Truist Park.

Even as the world continued to change around them, they collectively earned more than 90,000 hours of community service.

Broussard was featured on USA Today's "Coronavirus Chronicles" detailing how COVID-19 had impacted her senior year of high school. She went on to graduate in the top 5 percent of her class and her graduation speech was televised statewide as a part of The CW Network aired special called “Graduate Together: America Honors The High School Class of 2020.”

It was during this time that Broussard pivoted her project and decided to create an online platform/version due to the pandemic. SoultoSpeak is an instructional public speaking organization started by youth for the youth.

Broussard will share the tools and knowledge she gained while participating in organizations such as, The Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project and Girl Scouts Miss Media Program. Her primary mission is creating a safe space for students to unleash their soul all while building up the skills to become an orator. By providing the tools to formulate their personal stories into testimonies of change, students will be equipped to engage any audience, present themselves with confidence, and speak their soul.

Jam-packed with information, tips, and tricks from a myriad of accredited speakers, visitors to this online resource will be able to read up on valuable skills they can apply to their communication tactics with others. Through blog posts, detailed written instruction, and even live sessions, speakers can learn how to take their presentation skills to the next level.

She also created a podcast, SoultoSpark, which she interviewed Condace Pressley of Cox Media and Cherokee County Superintendent Brian Hightower. To tune in to the Podcast or book a session for public speaking visit her project website.

Broussard is in her second semester of her freshman year at Boston University where she attends on a full tuition leadership scholarship majoring in broadcast journalism and minoring in political science.