Hello everyone, my name is Ashley Newby and I am a senior at Michigan State University in James Madison College... working with Rebecca and Matthew (below)... I am also looking forward to the forum next week and sharing ideas.

Hello Everyone,

My name is Matt Swartz, and I am member of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, and a Psychology Double Major. I am working Becca Farnum, who already introduced herself above, and other on the 21st Century Chautauqua project. Our goal is to connect the campus and various residential colleges through mutually beneficial dialouge that helps everyone to understand different points of view on controversial and important topics like Sustainability and Racial Justice. I look forward to meeting you all, and feel free to drop me a line at swartzm6@msu.edu.

Hey everyone! I'm Alexander Kaplan (Alex), from University of Central Florida's Burnett Honors College. I'm a second-year student, studying Philosophy and working towards American Humanics certification.

My research interests center around Urban Studies and, more or less, doing philosophy on environmental/civic issues of importance in the 21st century.

I look forward to meeting all of you! Any other philosophy majors out there?

Hey All -
I'm Rebecca Farnum from Michigan State University. I'm a first-year on campus and part of the leadership team for our 21st Century Chautauqua Project (http://21c-chautauqua.org/wiki/). I look forward to meeting all of you, sharing our experiences about the Chautauqua, and exploring other ways to fulfill our core commitments!

Hello!
My name is Katie Shorey and I've a junior government major at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York. I am Academic Affairs Chair of our student government, as well as Class President of 2010.
I am looking forward to the forum and interested in the tentative discussions.

We are looking to re-vamp our Academic and Social integrity standards,so I hope to gain valuable feedback and ideas. See you in April.

Katie

Please post a comment and get to know one another! Share what you do on your campus that makes you interested in this conference.

Hi everyone!!

My name is Sarah Simpson and I'm a senior at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. I'm the Student Outreach Coordinator for Student Leaders for Service on my campus. Student Leaders for Service is a student department that supports 25 undergrads and graduate students who work weekly at local community partners. We work with those 25 students weekly, as well we also work with the larger campus community on three HUGE day long service activities throughout the year; Earth Day, MLK Day, and New Student Service Day. We are currently working on turning our office into the volunteer center on campus.

I’m interested in coming out to Boston to chat with everyone and hear about what is working on other college campuses. I’m pumped about getting things percolating!!

I can’t wait to meet everyone, o so soon!!

Peace, Sarah

My name is Sara Lawson, I am a part of the Student Life Organization, and President of Drama, Speech, and Writing Club at Oakland Community College Royal Oak MI campus. Being a part of Student Life,have taught me how to become a more effective leader. Student Life offers training workshops, that have really helped me develop my leadership skills with a more diverse approach.
I had a dream one night to start up a theatre group that would be based on diversity, where we could act out each others culturals difference on stage, and let the audience know that no matter what ethic background you come from, lets work together for peace, and unity. Ifeel this conference will allow me to network and bring new ideas back to my campus, and demostrate ways for positive improvement.

Thanks for posting, all of you!

It's very cool to see the excitement building for the event! We're certainly getting excited about it over here at Babson!

How about the rest of you? Let's hear a little about yourselves. We on the organizing committee will be putting up our Bios soon on the "Our Team" page.


See you soon!
John

Hi everybody!

My bio will be up as well (as soon as John decides to put it up). If you have any questions, feel free to post them on the board or email bethechange@babson.edu! I'll be checking it every night while I'm in New Orleans for Habitat for Humanity next week :)

Have any questions for each other? Post away!

Only 3 weeks away,

Marissa