2011-2012 Membership

Executive Board:                                               

Vice-President: Eliza Dyer
Secretary: Natalie White
Treasurer: Dylan Bellavance                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                     
Members:
Dylan Bellavance

• Major: Exercise and Movement Science
• Extracurricular Activities: UVM Snowboard Team, President of Exercise and and Movement Science Students Association, Vice President of UVM Premedical Club, Intramural Soccer, Intramural Broomball
• Favorite Quote: "It's not tragic to die doing what you love."

Alissa Carberry

• Major: Early Childhood Special Education, Communication Sciences and Disorders concentration
• Extracurricular Activities: President of UVM Gluten Free Club, member of Translating Identity Conference Committee, Free2Be, Celtic Cats
• Favorite Quote: "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize that they were big things." -Kurt Vonnegut

Liam Donnelly

• Major: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Microbiology TA, volunteer at Fletcher Allen, does research in a molecular genetics lab
  
• Favorite Quote: "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."
  

Eliza Dyer

• Major: Elementary Education, Special Education minor, English concentration
• Extracurricular Activities: RA and SRA in Coolidge Hall, Hall Council Co-Advisor, Student Admissions Representative (AdvoCat), ACLead member of Advocats
• Favorite Quote: "Choose your own happiness."

Samantha Ethridge

• Major: Environmental Studies, double minor in Community and International Development and Dance
• Extracurricular Activities: President of UVM FeelGood, Student Admissions Representative (AdvoCat), ACLead member of Advocats, Orchesis Dance Company member, Celtic Cats, Catamount Dance Crew
• Favorite Quote: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

Erika Hesterberg

• Major: Nutrition and Food Sciences
• Extracurricular Activities: DREAM Mentoring Program, Outing Club, Beyond Simple Conversation Group
• Favorite Quote: "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but rather the lighting of a fire." -WB Yeats

Eric Hunt-Schroeder

• Major: Electrical Engineering, Computer concentration
• Extracurricular Activities: Math tutoring, engineering and computer science courses, AERO car
• Favorite Quote: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." -Albert Einstein

Caroline Kirkpatrick

• Major: Biological Sciences (B.S.)
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Founding member of the re-establishment of Kappa Alpha Theta women's fraternity, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Beta Beta Beta member
  
• Favorite Quote: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." -Albus Dumbledore
  

Senja Kling

• Major: History (European concentration), English minor
• Extracurricular Activities: Mentor with Boys & Girls Club, Writing Center Tutor, Writing Partners Program, works for Shelburne Farms and Let's Pretend Catering
  
• Favorite Quote: "Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor." -Oliver W. Holmes
  

Tabatha Leahy

• Major: Psychology, minor in Nutrition Food Sciences
• Extracurricular Activities: Peer Leader for Honors College, Vermont Cynic Staff writer, Learning Co-op tutor, Undergraduate Teaching Fellow (psych), Peer Conduct Board
• Favorite Quote: "We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, beats the hell out of never trying." -Grey's Anatomy

Kindle Loomis

• Major: Natural Resource Planning with a focus on Human and Environmental Health, minor in Community International Development
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Rubenstein Steward, UVM Club Softball, works in the Athletic Department
  
• Favorite Quote: "We don't accomplish anything in this world alone...and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weaving of individual threads from one to another that creates something." -Sandra Day O'Connor
  

Francesca Minervini

• Major: Mechanical Engineering
• Extracurricular Activities: Vice President of the Society of Women Engineers
• Favorite Quote: "Experience is the best teacher."

Lucas Morgan

• Major: Civil Engineering
• Extracurricular Activities: Senior RA in McAuley Hall, former RA in Harris Millis and University Heights South, Community Coalition, Former Chair on Committee of Legislative Action in the Student Government Association
• Favorite Quote: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein
  

Caterina Mustacchi

• Major: Business Administration, concentration in Marketing, minor in Parks Recreation and Tourism
  
• Extracurricular Activities:  Finance Vice President of Alpha Delta Pi, Order of Omega Greek Leadership Honor Society, UVM Panhellenic Judicial Board, works as a front desk clerk and guest service representative at the Courtyard Burlington Harbor Hotel
  
• Favorite Quote:  "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." -G. Randolf
  

Kate O'Neill

• Major: Communication Sciences and Disorders & Psychology
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Speech and Hearing Club, Communication Sciences Peer Advisor, Pep Band, Campus Tour Guide, UVM blogger
  
• Favorite Quote: "Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
  

Katelin Perkins

• Major: Political Science and Psychology
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Psi Chi Honor Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholar, intern at Federal Public Defender's office
  
• Favorite Quote: "Going in one more round when you don't think you can, that's what makes all the difference in your life."
  

Deanna Pinkowski

• Major: Radiation Therapy
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Alpha Chi Omega, Order of Omega, Licensed Nursing Assistant
  
• Favorite Quote: "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

Megan Porter

• Major: Psychology, Human Development and Family Studies
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Vice President Alpha Delta Pi, Order of Omega Greek Life Honor Society, works in a pyschology research lab, Intramural Broomball
  
• Favorite Quote: "You will get plenty of time to sleep when you are dead."
  

Marie Prim

• Major: Secondary Education (English)
  
• Extracurricular Activities: S-LTA (Service Learning Teaching Assistant) Spring 2011
  
• Favorite Quote: "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." -Albert Einstein
  

Pamela Rooney

• Major: Animal Science (concentration in Pre-Veterinary Studies), Chemistry minor
  
• Extracurricular Activities: intern at Essex Veterinary Center, Golden Key International Honour Society
  
• Favorite Quote: "No other road, no other way. No day but today." -Rent, the Broadway musical
  

Michaela Rowland

• Major: Nursing
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Philanthropy and Community Service Chair of Delta Delta Delta, Student Nursing Association, Sigma Theta Tau member, Nursing Honor Society
  
• Favorite Quote: "I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not." -Lucille Ball
  

Bryan Sewell

• Major: Natural Resource Management
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Golf Team, interning with a professor to help run a non-profit coffee company, tortilla baker and  manager at New World Tortilla
  
• Favorite Quote: "Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted." -Unknown
  

Caitlin Shelburne

• Major: Secondary Education/English
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Upward Bound Mentoring, Aspiring White Anti-Racist Allies
  
• Favorite Quote: "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember that you have within you the strength, patience, and passion to reach for the stars, to change the world." -Harriet Tubman
  

Sasha Tenenbaum-Lane

• Major: Social Work, Sociology minor
• Extracurricular Activities: UVM Dance Team member, Volunteer at Fletcher Allen
• Favorite Quote: "Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you've encountered to bring you to the now, and now is right on time." -Asha Tyson

Brandon Vanasse

• Major: Molecular Genetics
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Community Service Scholars Program, does research on algae productivity under Dr. Dahiya, Clinical research associate at FAHC PI: Dr. Freeman, Downhill Bike Team
  
• Favorite Quote: "It's better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not." -Andre Gide
  

Abigail Wager

• Major: Integrated Biological Sciences
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Secretary of UVM HIV/AIDS Taskforce
  
• Favorite Quote: "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." -Robert Frost
  

Natalie White

• Major: Secondary Education, English
• Extracurricular Activities: President of Challah for Hunger, a national club that promotes Hunger Relief and Advocacy support for the genocide in Sudan
• Favorite Quote: "Don't count the days, make the days count."

Elizabeth Yasewicz

• Major: Biology, minor in Secular Religion
  
• Extracurricular Activities: Pre-medical Enchancement Club (PEP), UVM Mountain Biking Team, Volunteer at Fletcher Allen, Medlife Brigades, does research in Art Shukla's environmental Pathology Lab
  
• Favorite Quote: "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
  

Advisor:
Maggie Rosa