The Spotlight issue 1 The Spotlight Magazine Fall /Winter 2014 | Page 14

Zenith Presents

The Sunflower Foundation.

* Yurimara

This includes developing, teaching, modelling and frequenting the pageant circuit. Of all these things, however, she singles out teaching as her greatest love. She works as a professor at Innovative University and uses both gimp and a recording wizard to teach advanced classes to students who wish to become developers.

Naturally, I asked her why she joined Zenith and our contest. She promptly informed me that she “…came across information about Zenith while reading the Pulse.” She was “…taken by the level of professionalism” and wanted to know more. I, in turn, wanted to know more about The Sunflower Foundation and was told that:

“The name originates from my earliest experiences on IMVU. The sunflower symbolises the impact I would like to have on women in the IMVU community. I would like to see members of the community thrive and bloom just as sunflowers do.” She described her foundation’s mission statement as one “aimed at empowering women in the IMVU community through helping them to bolster their self-esteem and a sense of self-worth.”

Samie also intends to launch a number of lectures along with counselling services for women. These will be delivered by various community members and will “bring out the key thoughts of the Foundation such as Honesty, Self-esteem and Relationships to name a few.”

Zenith’s October contest “All Eyes on Me” ran from the 1st - 12th of October, 2014. Group members were invited to share details of any project they were currently working on (or planning) and persuade us why they deserved the spotlight and our grand prize.

Whoever scooped the prize would feature in at least five IMVU-related publications.

Zenith is proud to present PrincessSamSunflower or “Samie”, founder of The Sunflower Foundation and winner of our “All Eyes on Me” contest. Samie describes herself as deeply family-oriented, newly engaged, and a happy individual who is also “a bit of multi-tasker.”