My name is Nall Inshan Moonilall. I am honored to be a recipient of the Multicultural Scholars Program Scholarship, sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture and Florida International University, because I believe in the future of agriculture.  This field of study will be the future of our earth. This is why special care has to be taken today to ensure that this will happen. This is my part in the journey of this happening and coming true.
Ever since, I was in middle school, I had an affinity for the environment. I was involved in the Zoo Magnet Program at Richmond Heights Middle School where I took any classes at Miami Metro Zoo.
During my high school years at Coral Reef Senior High, I was enrolled in the Agriscience Academy. This exposed me to a wide array of agricultural events throughout the state of Florida. I was very much involved in the National FFA Organization. Here I served as Student Alumni Liaison for the Coral Reef Sr. FFA Chapter and also participated in many competitions and leadership activities. Some of the competitions I have participated in included: Agricultural Business Management Career Development Event, Agricultural Communications CDE, Extemporaneous Public Speaking CDE, Floriculture CDE, Food Science and Technology CDE, Ornamental Horticulture Demonstration CDE. I was state champion in the Ornamental Horticulture Demonstration CDE in the category of production in 2008 with a project titled – “How to Mount Bromeliads onto Driftwood Using an Artistic Approach Towards Production.” I was also state champion in the Floriculture CDE. My team and I traveled to Indianapolis, Indiana to compete in the National Floriculture CDE where we placed silver as a team in October 2008. In 2007, I entered a photographic competition sponsored by the University of Florida and placed first. My photograph was titled “Sitting Frog” and was published in the April 2008 issue of the FFA New Horizons Magazine.  Lastly in 2007, I did a research project titled “What is the Effect of Varying Soil Compositions on Root Development in Corn Plants?” and entered it into the State Agriscience Fair in the category of Environmental Sciences and won 2nd place.
Aside from FFA, I participated in many environmental clean-ups located in various areas around Miami-Dade County, worked in my school gardens growing many varieties of vegetables and fruits and landscaping various spots throughout Coral Reef Senior High.
In my senior year in high school I volunteered regularly at Fairchild Tropical Botanical garden as an Honors and Executive Intern through the Office of Community Services of Miami-Dade Public Schools. My job as a herbarium technician assistant in the FTG Herbarium at Fairchild’s Center for Tropical Plant Conservation Research Center helped me to understand the procedures required to curate a horticultural museum collection. I scanned plant specimens and uploaded data entry for the FTG virtualherbarium and the National Parks Service, sorted and filed specimens by family, genus, species, and geographic areas, and participated in some plant nursery assistance. In the summer of 2009, I served as an Agricultural Ambassador with the United States Department of Agriculture where I conducted research on the effects Caribbean Fruit Flies have on different fruiting trees. I was stationed at the Subtropical Horticulture Research Station in Miami, Florida. During the internship I spent one week in Washington D.C. where I presented some of my findings and participated in a week long leadership conference.
When I finish from Florida International University, I hope to be in a position where I could help farmers from different countries to utilize their resources in a more efficient way. I hope I can contribute to the elimination of hunger globally. The Multicultural Scholars Program will help to realize my dream to help humanity.