Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students

Lydia Arias , a senior from Atlanta, Georgia, is concentrating in Spanish and Portuguese Literature. Over the last four years, Lydia has been a member of the varsity track and field team, where she has been a successful competitor in the pole vault. She currently sits at 7^th place on the team’s all-time performance list, and has been a two time Ivy League scorer. For the past two years, Lydia has been a Learning Consultant at the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning where she played a pivotal role in the re-design of the center’s Learning Consultation program. Beyond re-designing that program, she also helped foster a greater partnership between the McGraw Center and the athletics department. Within Butler College, Lydia is a two-year Residential College Advisor and has served as a Peer Adviser. She has also been active in student organizations as a member of Aquinas Catholic Chaplaincy, Princeton Faith in Action, and the Cuban American Student Association. Upon graduation, Lydia will work at Bain Consulting in Atlanta.

 

Omar Carrillo is a senior from Los Angeles, California, who is concentrating in the Woodrow Wilson School and earning certificates in American Studies and Urban Studies. Committed to community service, Omar has been involved with the ESL El Centro program for four years through the Student Volunteers Council. For two years, he served as the Project Coordinator for the ESL El Centro where he managed approximately 20 volunteers and the ESL classes in addition to creating and revising daily lesson plans. Through the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, Omar served as an Education Intern during the summer of 2010, where he developed implementation modules for college awareness curriculum sequences at two high schools. Building upon that particular experience, Omar helped lead the Break Out trip to those Brooklyn high schools the following year. On campus, Omar has been involved with the student newspaper, the Daily Princetonian, where he participated as an Associate Editor for News and as a Senior Writer. He was one of the founding members of the DREAM Team, which seeks to raise awareness about the difficulties and empathy for the aspirations of undocumented students, following his time as an intern at the UCLA Labor Center in the summer of 2009, where he helped strategize with the DREAM Act legislation media team. He also coordinated the Latinos Unidos for Networking and Advising (LUNA) program through the Carl A. Fields Center and served on the Student Advisory Board of the American Studies Program. At Forbes College, Omar has been a Residential College Advisor where he provides support and advising to a group of 38 advisees.

 

Christina Chang , a senior from Austin, Texas, is majoring in Chemistry while pursuing certificates in Applications of Computing, Engineering Biology, and Materials Science and Engineering. Over the last four years, Christina has helped share her passion for science and engineering with others in the community and on campus. She helped establish the Community House After School Academy and has been a mainstay of the Chemistry Outreach Club. Christina also founded the Women in Science Colloquium (WISC), serving as its initial president, and she helped form the Princeton University Chemistry Society (PUCS). Beyond her contributions to the science community, Christina has been an Orange Key tour guide, a Princeton Preview captain, and an executive board officer of Community House. Having contributed to Princeton research laboratories in areas ranging from bioinformatics to inorganic chemistry, Christina has been awarded the Gladys Anderson Emerson Scholarship by Iota Sigma Pi and the 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. As a recipient of the 2012 Marshall Scholarship, Christina will spend two years in England studying for an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures at Imperial College London and an MPhil in Chemistry at Cambridge University.

 

Benjamin Cogan , a senior from Manhattan, New York, is concentrating in Philosophy and pursuing certificates in Values and Public Life and Judaic Studies.  A student organization leader who has been devoted to advancing the discussion of ethics-related issues, Ben has served as the president of the Human Values Forum, a group that brings together faculty members and students through a weekly dinner series. He co-founded Princeton Giving What We Can, an organization committed to promoting effective global poverty philanthropy, for which he organized a fellowship, brought several speakers and thought-leaders to campus, and led a student pledge drive.  On the political front, Ben organized and took part in a door-to-door campaign for then-Senator Obama in Pennsylvania with the College Democrats. He also developed international simulations for Princeton Model UN, represented students accused of Honor Code violations as a Peer Representative, and has been heavily involved in American Foreign Policy Magazine, serving as Editor-in-chief. A contributor to campus religious life, Ben is currently a student leader of Zamru, an interactive Jewish service featuring a mix of undergraduates and community members, has served as co-chair of Kesher, the Reform Jewish student group, and sings in Koleinu, Princeton’s Jewish a cappella group. In the summer of 2010, Ben spent two months in New Delhi, India living full-time at an orphanage, teaching and mentoring the children there. Upon graduation, Ben will be studying Jewish texts and history at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, Israel.

 

Jonathan Ford, Jr. is a senior from Huntsville, Alabama concentrating in Anthropology. As part of his studies and independent work, Jonathan has conducted fieldwork in Germany. Currently, Jonathan is a Residential College Advisor in Rockefeller College where he works closely with a group of advisees providing guidance, advising, support, and mentorship. Jonathan formerly served as the president of the Black Men's Awareness Group (BMAG), and continues to work in an advisory position within the organization. He has spent this semester as a member of the club basketball team and a tenor in the Princeton University Gospel Ensemble (PUGE). Jonathan has also been a cast member of the Black Art's Company's Drama segment this year, playing the role of "Michael Conley" in their first full-length play, "Balancing Act."  He has provided security for campus events as a member of the Safeguards Student Agency, served as the former communications chair for the Hallelujah Worship Committee, and worked as a counselor for the AIU High School Diplomats Program. Next year, Jonathan will enroll in the Master's in Management Program at Wake Forest University's school of business, as a Corporate Fellow and stipendiary.

 

Shirley Gao , a junior from Davis, California, is a Woodrow Wilson School concentrator with plans to earn a certificate in Global Health Policy. Currently, Shirley is a co-chair of the Pace
Council for Civic Values where she has helped establish and improve a number of community service initiatives. During her tenure as the co-chair of the Pace Center for Civic Values, Shirley helped establish a monthly leadership workshop series, created the Pace Center Working group to research other universities’ civic engagement programs, and co-wrote the Pace Center leader guide. She has twice planned Reflections on Service, an annual orientation event that introduces incoming students to service opportunities, and she has been a participant, leader, and twice coordinator for Pace Center Breakout trips. In addition to her work with the Pace Center, Shirley has twice served as a co-chair for Communiversity, and she advises the Woodrow Wilson School as a member of the Student Advisory Committee and the Undergraduate Bernstein Gallery Committee, which reviews the exhibition schedule for arts shows in the lower floors of Robertson Hall. She was selected as a student representative to the University’s Priorities Committee this year. A former chair of the Mathey College Council, Shirley is a current team member of Leadership for Change, a writer for the University Press Club, an Outdoor Action leader, and a HEART (Health Education and Rescue Training) and CPR instructor. O ver the summer, she has participated in a Global Seminar to Ghana and England, served as a finance intern for the Center for Public Integrity, and traveled on a two-week trip to Cambodia through the Office of Religious Life (ORL). This summer she will serve as an intern for Wellbody in Sierra Leone through the International Internship Program and will travel to the former Yugoslavia with the ORL delegation to study conflict resolution and sustainable peacebuilding, an interest that was borne out of the Breakout trip she led to North Carolina on ‘conflict resolution and restorative justice.’

 

Faaez Ul Haq, a senior from Islamabad, Pakistan, is a Computer Science concentrator also pursuing certificates from the Woodrow Wilson School and Near Eastern Studies. Over his years at Princeton, Faaez has laid the groundwork for Princeton’s social entrepreneurship scene. As c o-founder of the Princeton Social Entrepreneurship Initiative (PSEI), Faaez led efforts to foster social entrepreneurship on campus, building resources and relationships with organizations such as the Keller Center and the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club, where he was an officer. Today the PSEI organizes the social tracks of most business competitions on campus, such as TigerLaunch and Princeton Pitch. As an entrepreneur himself, Faaez has been a winner at TigerLaunch twice and a participant three times. In his sophomore year, Faaez led a team of undergraduates and graduate students to winning the social track at TigerLaunch with em[POWER], a non-profit that sustainably electrifies off-grid communities using a comprehensive renewable resource-development model. Today em[POWER] is an organization running operations in South Asia and looking to expand elsewhere. In his senior year, Faaez led another 7 person team to third place with BeneTag, an online product tagging system, meant to add transparency to supply chains and to help the buying decisions of socially conscious consumers. Outside semesters at Princeton, Faaez has worked at Google and Goldman Sachs. He also spent a summer in Sierra Leone working with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), setting up infrastructure and deploying 130 laptops in an off-grid village. He received an honorable mention in the CRA Outstanding Researcher Award in 2012, has been involved as an undergraduate fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute of Self Determination, and currently serves as an undergraduate member of the Computer Science Council. For his independent research, Faaez has been working to build a platform for tracking corruption in resource-scarce settings, and he has written a policy paper on E-government in Yemen. Faaez serves as a peer adviser for the Woodrow Wilson School. He has also been a Dormitory Assistant for two years, and a Residential Computing Consultant for one year. Faaez is part of the staff at the Humanities Resource Centre, and has served as a Commencement Usher. In other extracurricular activities, Faaez has been an active member of the International Relations Council, and a staff photographer for the Daily Princetonian. He has also made contributions to cultural groups including the Muslim Students Association and Pehchaan, for which he served as the organization’s vice president. After graduation Faaez plans to continue with many of his independent projects over the summer, before joining Microsoft as a Program Manager.

 

Yu-Sung Huang , a senior from Richmond, Virginia, is concentrating in Operations Research and Financial Engineering with certificates in the Woodrow Wilson School, Engineering Management Systems, and Finance. He served as the president of the Taiwanese American Student Association and is a member of Leadership For Change team, which aims to provide students with intentional leadership development opportunities and to envision a campus in which leaders are defined not by position but by their ability to envision and affect change.  A two-year Residential College Advisor in Rockefeller College and three-year Outdoor Action Leader, he enjoys building community; he helped organize a Thanksgiving dinner at the Master’s house for students who would not be able to return home for the holiday. He has also served on a number of University committees, such as the Priorities Committee, the Alcohol Coalition Committee, and the Vice President for Campus Life’s Orientation Working Group. With the Alcohol Coalition Committee, Yu-Sung has been part of the Prospect Dinners Working Group, a team that brings faculty, students and staff together for an open and honest conversation Princeton student culture around alcohol and how it impacts the student experience. In general, his passionate lies in supporting and empowering those around him - whether helping freshmen adjust to Princeton or training the next generation of Princeton student leaders. Upon graduating, Yu-Sung will be joining the Chicago office of The Boston Consulting Group, hopefully working on a project with the Gates Foundation or the Chicago Public Schools.

 

Haley White , a senior from Chatham, New Jersey, is concentrating in the Woodrow Wilson School.  During the 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic years, Haley served as co-chair of the Pace Council for Civic Values (PCCV), a student board that promotes increased civic engagement on-campus by providing peer advising and grants to student civic engagement initiatives and by organizing special campus events that encourage students to get more involved. Recognizing the untapped energy for service in Princeton’s eating clubs, Haley worked over several months to form personal relationships with club leaders and helped launch the 2011 Inter Club Community Fundraiser, a ten-day program in which the clubs raised money for a New Jersey nonprofit, a project she repeated in 2012. Beyond her PCCV work, Haley has organized a Breakout trip about economic development in Buffalo, taught ESL classes through the Petey Greene Prisoner Assistance Program, written columns for the Daily Princetonian, and led a national finalist team of Princeton students in the Ashoka Foundation Changemaker Challenge, a nonprofit consulting competition. She has also served on various committees, including the Priorities Committee, and as the senior commissioner of a Woodrow Wilson School junior policy task force. During her freshman year, she started the Banana Project, a campaign that convinced University Dining Services to sell Fair Trade bananas. Over the course of her undergraduate career, she has been named a Fulbright Scholar, a Truman Scholar, a US State Department Critical Language Scholar in Hindi, and a Dale Summer Award Winner.  Next year, Haley will move to Brazil to pursue her Fulbright. Then she will take a job with the Boston Consulting Group in Mexico City.

 

 

 

Nikhil Basu Trivedi , is a senior from Atherton, California, majoring in Molecular Biology with a certificate in Finance. For two years, Nikhil served as the co-president of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club, a club he helped grow to include over 1,000 students, alumni, faculty, and administrators. During his tenure, he has expanded and, in some cases, implemented a number of programs and initiatives, including competitions such as Princeton Pitch and TigerLaunch, a curriculum for students, and a popular speaker series. In addition, he has helped create multiple mentorship opportunities, such as the formation of the Idea Factory sessions, so that students can gain valuable feedback, advice, and support. Beyond his deep commitment to entrepreneurship, he serves as a peer adviser in Butler College, as the technology chair for the Cap & Gown Club, and as a tour guide with Orange Key. He has performed with the Princeton South Asian Theatrics (PSAT) and has served as the Butler College Council Co-Chair. As a member of the Senior Class Commencement Committee, Nikhil is responsible for planning and organizing the Class Day celebrations. 

 

Elizabeth Borges , a senior from Washington, D.C., is majoring in Psychology and pursuing a certificate in American Studies. Through her work with the Alcohol Coalition Committee (ACC) and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Center, she has led campus-wide discussions and initiatives to promote student health, wellbeing, tolerance, and understanding. Elizabeth served as the student co-chair for the ACC, a committee of students, faculty and staff that works to address high-risk drinking in a strategic and meaningful way. As part of her responsibilities, she helped plan, organize, and direct an Ivy-League workshop where student leaders came together to share ideas and initiatives regarding high-risk drinking. She also co-chaired an ACC subcommittee that updated Princeton’s alcohol policy. As an LGBT Center intern, Elizabeth performed a qualitative study to identify the current needs of LGBT students and sparked dialogue through her participation in Princeton’s “It Gets Better” video and other campus programming. In addition, Elizabeth has led discussions about diversity as a moderator for Sustained Dialogue, served as a guide for Orange Key, and helped coordinate Princeton’s Manicure for the Cure. This summer she will be a teaching intern at Phillips Exeter Academy, and in the fall, she will begin work as a research assistant at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government investigating women and leadership.

 

Claire Cole , a junior from Waco, Texas, is concentrating in Psychology. She serves on the national team of Students for Education Referm (SFER)—a non-profit organization that was founded at Princeton in 2009—that works to ensure an excellent education for each and every student. She coordinated SFER’s thirty person, three-day national summit and has served as the organization’s communications director. Stemming from her personal interest in education leadership, Claire is committed to engaging with other students in learning how to effectively affect change. She initiated a campus wide, student leadership training program called Leadership for Change, which hopes to build better leaders in the nation’s service and in the service of all nations. She interns with the Program in Teacher Preparation, a position which she proposed and designed. As a campus leader, Claire is a Residential College Advisor, an Outdoor Action leader, and a Breakout Coordinator through the Pace Center. Last year, she was the editor-in-chief of the Bric-A-Brac Yearbook and the president of the Texans Club. She has led a weekly project with the Student Volunteers Council, and over the summer, has served as an intern with the Princeton Internships in Civic Service program.  

 

Sam Dorison , a senior from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, is concentrating in the Woodrow Wilson School. During his time in the Wilson School, he spent a semester at Oxford University and currently serves on the Woodrow Wilson School Student Advisory Committee. Over the course of two summers, he volunteered as a tutor in South Africa and worked with a lawyer in Washington, D.C. on legal cases involving detainees at Guantánamo Bay. This work ultimately provided him the opportunity to travel to Guantánamo and sparked the main idea for his senior thesis. A community builder and leader, Sam has served as the chair of Whitman College’s College Council and as the vice president of the Undergraduate Student Government. In addition, he has covered sports for The Daily Princetonian and hasserved as a guide selection officer for Orange Key. He is a member of the Honor Committee, an economics tutor at the McGraw Center, and one of the Co-Chairs for the Class of 2011’s Annual Giving Campaign.  

 

Kadeem Gill ,a senior from Brooklyn, New York, is concentrating in Psychology and earningcertificates in African American Studies and Dance. A committed artist, Kadeem has served as a leader throughout the arts community and has taken on specific leadership roles in student performing arts organizations such as BodyHype, DiSiac, and the Black Arts Company: Dance. He has also performed with the Princeton University Gospel Ensemble. Moreover, since his sophomore year, Kadeem served on the board of the Performing Arts Council (PAC), an umbrella organization that represents the interests of many of the campus’ performance groups. He ultimately served as president of PAC, during which time he successfully raised the visibility and profile of the many affiliated student organizations. Kadeem has been a mentor through the Leadership and Mentoring Program (LAMP), has assisted with publicity and DJ recruitment for BlackBox, Inc., and has worked as a student manager at the Frist Campus Center. With a strong commitment to service and mentorship, he has also been active in the community by participating in three Community Based Learning Initiative (CBLI) class projects, tutoring at a halfway house in Trenton and leading dance workshops for children. Kadeem’s most current venture lies in his role as co-chair of the 2011 Pan-African Graduation, which celebrates the achievements of Princeton graduates from the African diaspora and reflects the unique cultural experiences of students from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. Collaborating with the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, Kadeem is helping coordinate this year’s event. After graduation Kadeem will begin his two-year commitment with Teach for America, teaching high school English in the Mississippi Delta.

 

Jennifer King , a senior from Greenwich, Connecticut, is concentrating in Computer Science within theSchool of Engineering and Applied Science while pursuing a certificate in Information Technology and Society. A three-year starter on the varsity field hockey team, Jennifer has earned numerous accolades as a scholar-athlete, including a spot on the All-Ivy Academic Team as a junior. An avid singer, Jennifer would perform the National Anthem before home games, and she later joined the University Glee Club to further develop her talents. As a committed scholar, Jennifer has been instrumental in inspiring her peers, especially women, to explore and enjoy the sciences. To that end, Jennifer has helped launch two separate student organizations, the Princeton Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Princeton Women in Computer Science (PWiCS). Both of these new clubs have created bridges and networks between a wide range of students and they have provided a space to collaborate and to have fun. Last year, Jennifer utilized her computer science skills to help formulate a business plan that would provide an online option for speech therapy that would significantly reduce the cost of teaching people how to adjust to and utilize their cochlear implants. Upon presenting this business plan at the TigerLaunch Entrepreneurship Competition, Jennifer and her teammate tied for first place. After graduation, Jennifer will work as a software engineer at Google.    

 

Genevieve Ryan , a senior from Potomac, Maryland, is a Politics major focusing on International Relations. She has served as an influential leader and role model in a wide range of campus organizations. As a founding member of the Circle of Women, Genevieve coordinated communications with volunteers and organizations in an effort to build schools for girls in developing countries. During the 2009 intercession break, she participated in a Student Volunteers Council trip to Galveston, Texas to help the area rebuild after Hurricane Ike. She was also a co-president of Princeton Against Cancer Together (PACT), a campus charitable group with a membership of over 250 students. A member of the Honor Committee, the Eating Club Task Force, and the Alcohol Coalition Committee, Genevieve has worked to enhance her peers’ academic and social experience. In addition, she has been the vice president of the Cottage Club, social chair of Club Lacrosse, and a member of the 5^th Reunion Crew. She is currently an Annual Giving captain for her class.  Next year, Genevieve will attend Georgetown Law School.    

 

Jane Yang , from Ypsilanti, Michigan, is a Chemical and Biological Engineering Major with certificates in Engineering Biology and the Program in Sustainable Energy. A passionate and dedicated engineer, she has used her knowledge and talents to impact individuals here and abroad. As a member of Engineers Without Borders (EWB)—an organization she would later lead as co-president—Jane traveled to Ashaiman, Ghana in 2009 to help build a community library, enhancing the impact of the project as a Martin A. Dale Summer Fellow. Over the course of the summer, she interviewed students, teachers, administrators, and residents to record and to tell their stories. Her interviews and research culminated in a photo show in Rockefeller College called the “Lives of Ashaiman.” In addition, she has inspired the next generation of engineers, as she co-coordinated programs for Princeton Engineering Education for Kids (PEEK), an outreach program that teaches robotics and basic engineering principles to local students. She has also sought to mentor engineering students within Princeton’s community as a Society of Women Engineers (SWE) mentor and School of Engineering Interactor. Jane co-founded Princeton’s chapter of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) and through this organization, helped develop a portable hydrogen generator that went on to receive national recognition. Beyond her impact in the field of engineering, she is a Head Fellow at the Writing Center and a member of the Community House Executive Board; co-led the SVC American Red Cross and Hats for the Homeless; served as a member of the Pace Center’s Student Steering Committee and the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership; and volunteered with Community House After School Academy (CHASA) and Peak Potential. Additionally, she served on the USG Frosh-Soph Council team that developed the Independent Student Guide, blogged for the Class of 2014 Admitted Students website and, outside of Princeton, served for several years on the Michigan Youth Council of the March of Dimes. Next year, Jane will travel to Kenya and work for the International Rescue Committee through Princeton in Africa before joining Deloitte’s federal consulting program and ultimately pursuing a career in international development.

 

Muhammad Jehangir Amjad, from Rawalpindi, Pakistan is a senior concentrating in Electrical Engineering with a certificate in Engineering and Management Systems. As the founder and third president of the student group Pehchaan, Amjad has worked as an ambassador to create awareness of Pakistani arts and culture. Most notably, he created the Chaand Raat (Night of the New Moon) Festival and Basant Mela Kite Flying Festival. Amjad has also been involved with the International Relations Council, both as a delegate and as a conference leader for the Princeton International Crisis Simulation and Princeton Model UN conference. Active in Rockefeller College, he has served as both a Residential College Adviser for two years and a Residential Computing Consultant for three years. Also an avid cricketer, Amjad organized a campus-wide viewing of the ICC Cricket World Cup and has worked with other students to create an informal cricket team that has competed with Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. In the Engineering Quadrangle, he has been elected to Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, and has worked as a Teaching Assistant for Computer Science and Electrical Engineering courses. 

 

Senior Sam Gulland is a Woodrow Wilson School major from Aldie, VA. Gulland serves as the Battalion Commander in the Princeton ROTC program, which is the highest ranking student in the Tiger Battalion. In this capacity he leads the training of forty cadets from Princeton, The College of New Jersey and Rider and prepares them for the US Army Cadet Command Leader Development and Assessment Course. Also a dedicated sprint football player, he has been on the Princeton team for all four years, and was voted as the team captain for the last two. 

This year Gulland has been intimately involved with an effort started by Princeton graduate and undergraduate students to help educate U.S. Military Veterans about the logistics of running for office. Along those lines, he has written his senior thesis on the practical impact of the decline in war veterans in the U.S. Congress. Gulland has also studied Arabic for the past three years in order to contribute to his military service. 

Reilly Kiernan, a senior from Pelham, NY is concentrating in Sociology with certificates in American Studies and Urban Studies.  Kiernan serves as the co-captain of the Varsity Cross-Country Team, earning First and Second Team All-Ivy honors. She also runs for the Varsity Indoor and Outdoor Track teams and has earned an Academic All-American distinction for Track and Field. Kiernan has distinguished herself through extensive service work at Princeton; she has served as the co-chair of the Pace Council for Civic Values (PCCV), the service chairs of Forbes College and Tower Club and the Undergraduate Student Government and leads the Prospect Alliance for Community Action and the Varsity Athletes Charity initiative. As the co-chair of the PCCV, she worked with the Undergraduate Student Government to allocate referendum funding to the Inter-Action break program in January 2010, which brought more than 100 students to Trenton for volunteer projects. In addition, Reilly serves as the Associate Editor for News for The Daily Princetonian after earning her place as a staff and senior writer. She also serves on the Executive Board of Orange Key and contributes to the Alcohol Coalition Committee. Next year she will be working for the Foundation Center in New York City, a national nonprofit service organization connecting nonprofits with grants.

 

Jenni Newbury, a senior Psychology major from Hillsborough, NJ, has shown a passion for creating disability awareness on campus. Her sophomore year she started the Down Syndrome Conference as an opportunity for Princeton students to engage with children with Down Syndrome. The event is now an annual event with hundreds of student volunteers and is organized by the student organization she also founded, Princeton Disability Awareness (PDA). PDA’s activities have grown to have multiple events each year, including the “Spread the Word to End the Word” campaign.Off campus, Newbury founded Camp PALS, a summer camp for Down Syndrome youth, now in its seventh year. In addition to her work with disability awareness, Newbury has served as the Student Volunteers Council (SVC) Board Facilitator and has led the Anchor House and Angel’s Wings weekly projects. Through the SVC she has also organized the Communiversity Kids on Campus events and led a Community Action group.  A participant in the Teacher Preparatory Program, Newbury has taught local first graders and also coaches a fourth grade basketball team at Dillon Gym. Outside of these activities, she worked at the Frist Campus Center Welcome Desk, takes part in the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship and serves as a Dormitory Assistant.

 

Senior Eric Plummer, Jr. is a resident of Plainfield, NJ and is concentrating in Economics. On campus Plummer serves as a role model not only as an Residential College Adviser in Butler College, but also as a successful athlete and participant in the black community. Plummer is the captain of the men’s Varsity Track team and has earned four Ivy League champion titles and two NCAA qualifications for shot put. He has served as an intern for the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, co-president of the Black Men’s Awareness Group and the treasurer of the Black Student Union and Princeton chapter of the NAACP. Also very involved with service work, Plummer has volunteered as an intern and project coordinator for Community House, is a family group leader of the Princeton University Mentoring Program and is the co-president of the Ivy Athletic Charity Team. He has also served on the Campus Club Advisory Board and as a Trustee of the Hallelujah Workshop Service.

 

Mariam Rahmani, a senior from Kent, OH, is concentrating in Comparative Literature with certificates in Persian Language and Culture and European Cultural Studies. Throughout her four years at Princeton, Rahmani has been involved with the Muslim community, both as the president of the Muslim Students Association and as a co-convener of the Religious Life Council. She has worked to create a healthy environment for Muslim students through interfaith iftars, Eid banquets, the annual Fast-a-Thon and the creation of an alumni community group. While co-convener of the Religious Life Council, she participated in a trip to India to study religious pluralism and also presented at the World Parliament of Religions in Melbourne. She also participated in the Office of Religious Life trip to Tanzania in the summer of 2008 and was involved in the Muslim-Jewish dialogue trip to Spain. Additionally, Rahmani has been a member of the selection committee for the first Muslim Chaplain at Princeton and for the new Vice President of Campus Life. In her senior year, she spoke to the freshman class at “Reflections on Diversity” and serves as a Residential College Adviser in Butler College.

 

Hailing from Mexico, Gabriel Rodriguez is a senior architecture major and resident of Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Rodriguez has been extremely involved with leadership positions within the LGBT community on campus, including serving as the LGBT Undergraduate Intern, facilitator of the Class of 2011 weekly support/discussion, Pride Alliance Publicity Chair, LGBT Peer Educator, and employee of the LGBT Center for his four years.  He has been instrumental in organizing many of the programs and initiatives of the Pride Alliance including Awareness Week, Pride Week, the Love = Love Valentine’s Day Program and Queer Articulations.  In addition, Rodriguez has been a student leader in the monthly “Queering the Color Line Family Dinners” for LGBT students, staff, and faculty of color.  He has been active with this program all four years and has organized and facilitated a number of the meetings.  A Residential College Adviser in Wilson College, Rodriguez also works as an Orange Key Tour Guide and publicity manager. He is also a dancer with and served as the artistic director of Ballet Folklórico, Princeton’s traditional Mexican folk dancing group.

Doug Sprankling, a senior from Davis CA, is an English major with a certificate in English and American Literature. A gifted humor writer, he has used his talents to revitalize the Forbes College InnFormer newsletter and write the characteristic halftime shows of the PU Band. A dedicated member of the Forbes College Council, Sprankling has also served as an academic peer adviser and the Forbes Intramural Chair. In the Band he plays the trumpet and has held the esteemed position of Drum Major, organizing the bands shows and formations. In addition, Sprankling has taken part in Outdoor Action all four years, serving as a leader, first aid instructor and finally as one of the four trip coordinators his senior year, coordinating 93 different trips for 744 freshmen. He also leads outdoor tours as an Orange Key Tour Guide and has served as the group’s historian, writing the “Guide for Guides.” A member of the Princetoniana Committee, he organized the second annual freshman step sing held during orientation week which has become a great new Princeton tradition. He is now coordinating the over hundred-year old step sing event for the senior class.

Junior Jose Joel Alicea of Plaistow, N.H., has served as the publisher of the campus publications American Foreign Policy, the Princeton Tory and Cornerstone, which he also founded. A politics major, he is an undergraduate fellow of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. As a member of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Alicea helped organize a spring 2008 lecture by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Alicea also is a member of the Anscombe Society student organization, which promotes discussions on campus about issues of marriage and family, and serves as a student representative on the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline. 

 

Senior Jackie Bello, a religion major from McLean, Va., has been an actor, director and stage manager for many campus theater productions. Bello served as the general manager of Theatre Intime and company manager of Princeton Summer Theater, and worked with other theater groups including the Princeton Shakespeare Company and Triangle Club. Bello founded the Theatre Intime Kids Initiative in 2007 to bring children's theater to the greater community. In addition, Bello played fullback on the women's rugby club team and the USA Rugby Women's National Under-19 Team. She also served as the Tower Club intramural sports chair and an Orange Key admission tour guide, as well as participated in the Student Volunteers Council Food TASK program and the Cotsen Children's Library Tiger Tales program. After graduation, she will teach in Baltimore through the Teach for America program.

 

Senior Adam Berry of Bel Air, Md., was a wide receiver on the varsity football team for four years and served as team captain. The economics major also worked with the Department of Athletics to improve recruiting strategies for black student-athletes. For his contributions to the football program, Berry received the Princeton Football Association's Hank Towns Award for mentoring young athletes and the Ronald Rogerson Award for providing inspirational leadership to his team. Berry also is a member of the Black Student Union's Leadership and Mentoring Program and Impact Christian Fellowship, and also serves as a "big sibling" with the Student Volunteers Council.

 

Senior Davion Chism, a politics major from Lancaster, Calif., has been a student leader particularly serving the black student community, serving as president of the Black Student Union, co-president of the Princeton Association of Black Women and volunteer with the Black Student Union's Leadership and Mentoring Program. During her freshman year she helped establish the Pan-African Graduation ceremony, which celebrates the achievements of graduates from the African diaspora. She also served this year as the Class Day chair on the Senior Commencement Committee. In addition, Chism dances with the Raks Odalisque Middle Eastern dance troupe, and is a member of the Undergraduate Student Government U-Council, a building supervisor at the Frist Campus Center and a CPR instructor for the Outdoor Action program.

 

Senior Parker Henritze, an Atlanta native, has earned All-Ivy awards as a member of the varsity women's volleyball team, including the 2007 Ivy League Player of the Year. She was captain of the volleyball team, president of the Varsity Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and an undergraduate representative on the NCAA Certification Committee. Henritze also volunteers as a coach for a middle school boys' basketball team and serves as an officer of Princeton Faith and Action. A politics major, Henritze is an officer of Tiger Inn and also has served as the chair of the Honor Committee and a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Architecture.

 

Junior Waqas Jawaid of Karachi, Pakistan, is a residential college adviser and serves on the Forbes College Council. He is a peer educator on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, worked as the webmaster for the Pride Alliance and was the advocacy and reflection member of the Student Volunteers Council's Executive Board. An architecture major, Jawaid works for the Student Design Agency and is a cartoonist for the Daily Princetonian. He took this passion for art home to Karachi, where he led an art activity for children living in the landfill outside Karachi through emPOWER, an initiative for a renewable power station for the landfill. After his sophomore year, Jawaid was awarded the Martin A. Dale '53 Summer Fellowship, which he used to travel to Delhi and Paris to create a comparative painting and photography portfolio to illustrate how art can serve as a bridge between different cultures. Jawaid also serves on the President's Advisory Committee on Architecture and is an Orange Key admission tour guide.

 

Senior Manav Lalwani of Secaucus, N.J., was publisher of the campus publication American Foreign Policy, a student member of the University's Priorities Committee, a board member of the South Asian Students Association and a member of the Indian dance group Naacho. He also worked as a residential college adviser in Whitman College for two years. Lalwani helped organize the University's first Hinduism Week as co-president of the Princeton Hindu Satsangam and helped lead a multi-faith event in fall 2008 titled "Performing the Sacred" as a member of the Religious Life Council. Lalwani is a politics major and a candidate for certificates in political economy, East Asian studies and South Asian studies.

 

Senior Fiona Miller of Tucson, Ariz., is a peer educator on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, served as co-president of Pride Alliance and worked as the LGBT Center's undergraduate intern. Miller was an officer of the Black Student Union, a member of the Black Arts Company and an Outdoor Action trip leader. A comparative literature major, Miller is a head fellow at the Writing Center and was a recipient of the Martin A. Dale '53 Summer Fellowship, which she used to organize, archive and document the artwork and personal papers of artist-collagist Earl B. Miller.