Ricky Ochillo '08

 

I am currently working for Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership as a Program Representative in Boston MA.

Our department offers free tax preparation, individual matching accounts to help families save for education, home ownership or starting a small business. In addition, we provide financial literacy workshops on savings, budgeting, credit, taxes, predatory lending and basic money management to name a few. I've been looking into law schools and plan to attend next fall. It’s been interesting trying to juggle work and study for the LSAT. I will be taking the test in February.

Anesh Prasai and I are trying to coordinate some micro finance programs in our home countries, Nepal and Kenya through a project called Ikon. We are thinking of conducting a few research programs in these countries with the student volunteers from Warren Wilson this summer. Eventually, we would like to find some grants that would support our mission of funding the needy entrepreneurs in Nepal and Kenya.

Let them know that since I visited them I have became a diehard buckeye football fan and live with a roommate from the University of Michigan who shares the same fervency for his Wolverine. There's much antagonism mixed with gripping excitement. And tell them, I'm still waiting on my invitation to preach, (lol)

Coshocton church members are people of such humbling spirit. They embrace a gleeful purpose of abiding faith. I am indelibly grateful for their friendship to the college and assistance helping me to accomplish my undergraduate studies. I believe them to epitomize a virtuous and faithful character with showering grace that is at the bedrock of religious ethic.