Celebrating Community and Purpose: Life University’s (Life U) LIFEforce Chiropractic Tribe at LIFE Leadership Weekend (LLW/LF)
LIFEforce is a tribe of chiropractic advocates that are committed to making an impact with Life University (Life U) spreading principled Chiropractic, Vitalism and Lasting Purpose around the world. Student LIFEforce (SLF) is an extension of LIFEforce, involving Life U students who are passionate about Chiropractic and feel called to support Life University by sending students to Life U and shifting the healthcare paradigm in the world.
What is Student LIFEForce?
LIFEforce is an organization at Life University (Life U) that serves as a collective tribe, whose mission is to spread Life U’s message of Lasting Purpose and Chiropractic around the world. Shared amongst LIFEforce members is the aim to not stop until everyone on the planet has access to chiropractic care and a chiropractic education, if they so choose. They strive to grow, protect and expand the profession of Chiropractic, through a core commitment to the ideals that the university was founded upon.
Life Leadership Weekend Recap: January 2024
This first Life Leadership Weekend (LLW) of 2024 was a tremendous success as prospective Life U students became acquainted with the University’s flagship Doctor of Chiropractic professional degree program; the beautiful Life U campus; and the faculty, staff and students of Life U.
Faces of LIFE- Olivia Porpora
Going into her collegiate years, Olivia Porpora’s initial plan was to continue on to medical school. She studied Exercise Science at the University of Delaware, and while completing her bachelor’s degree, Porpora decided that medical school was not the path she wanted to take because it didn’t align with her personal beliefs on what health care should look like. She had been seeing a chiropractor and “always thought it was a really cool profession.”
Faces of LIFE- Sherybel Berrios-Ramos
If you were to put a pin in a map that shows where all the students enrolled in Life U are from, the pins would dot all over as a colorful testament to our diverse campus culture. Many of those pins would land in Puerto Rico, like it would for Sherybel Berrios-Ramos, who is from the capital of San Juan.
Faces of LIFE- Rina Rice
Native to Bessemer, Alabama, Rina Rice is a returning student forging a new career path for herself in the D.C. program. She is the proud mom of three children and currently has two grandkids. Her undergraduate program was in Sociology and Psychology, and she worked as a counselor for at-risk youth and family intervention for about 12 years.
Faces of LIFE – Haley Turpin
Growing up in a family full of college athletes helped Life University Doctor of Chiropractic student Haley Turpin start thinking about how the human body works.
“We love sports,” Turpin said. “We’ve always had great conversations about the body and training, always having that drive to do something bigger and harder, and I’m very thankful that I had family conversations and lessons about that.”
Hannah King
“I was working in the athletic training field, but I found that it was too slow paced for me and had begun thinking of alternatives. I asked my stepdad for advice, and he talked to the (traditional medicine) doctors that he works with and asked what they would do if they could do it over, and the majority of them said that they would be chiropractors!”
Kelly Cottos
From studying exercise physiology as an undergrad to studying Chiropractic here at Life University, Kelly Cottos knows about helping the body achieve its optimum health.
Equipped with a degree in exercise physiology from Ohio University, Cottos set about looking for a job in the profession for which she trained.
Spencer Surmont
From Detroit, Michigan and working on his bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science, Spencer Surmont is also on the pre-D.C. track here at LIFE. Even though arriving on campus just out of high school, Surmont knew long before he got here that Chiropractic would be in his future.
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