Mykalah Jacob is a senior who resides in the beautiful town of Grafton. She has three
younger siblings who drive her crazy, but who are her absolute favorite people in the world.
Mykalah is Vice President of AMSA’s National Honor Society (NHS) chapter and hopes
that when she graduates, she will have made a difference in NHS and the school community at
large.
The surest way to find Mykalah is to listen for the sound of music. She loves singing at every
moment of the day and is honored to be a first soprano in HaZamir, the international Hebrew
high school choir. She also loves singing solos in AMSA’s A Capella group, which she knows is
the finest group on campus.
When Mykalah is not singing, she can most likely be found in the literary world, reading to her
heart’s content. She has attended the Great Books Summer Program for the past four summers at
Amherst College and Oxford University, where she has made friends with voracious readers and
been taught by professors from all over the world.
Mykalah’s younger sister has Down syndrome, which has led Mykalah to become extremely
passionate about Down syndrome awareness. If one is looking for a conversation starter, Down
syndrome is a topic Mykalah can never speak enough about.
Mykalah lives each day with the philosophy that "everything happens for a reason." Her pastimes
include quoting movies, watching book reviews on YouTube, cooking dinner for her family, and
making To-Do lists.
