Dear Odyssey,

Thank you for all the opportunities you have given me in such a short amount of time. I have learned so much about leadership, as well as working as a team.

The creativity that you allow all of your creators to have is something that I cherish so deeply. After high school, I was scared that I would have no outlet for my creativity since I would be focusing so much on school. This platform gave me a way to further myself as a writer as well as express myself in new ways.

Thank you for letting us express ourselves through words and also through video. To be able to see so many new perspectives with this new feature is engaging and educational. With these features, the possibility of content is exponential and unfathomable.

As an Editor-in-Chief of a community, thank you for letting me work with such an amazing group of people, as well as an amazing Assistant Managing Editor in New York City. Without all of them, my experience with Odyssey would not be as wonderful as it is.

Odyssey has taught me so much more than I ever imagined. At first, I thought I would do this to add to my résumé of the countless other things I have done to make myself look better on paper. It became so much more than that. I have now grown to appreciate writing more than I ever have before and have gained leadership skills I wouldn't have been able to elsewhere.

So thank you, Odyssey, for all that you have done for me, as well as all the other people who are proud to call ourselves Creators.

Love,

Rebecca