Summer Institute

Coordinators and Peer Leaders

Jamaal
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Tatiana
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Meet the 2009 Living Learning Coordinators

Jamaal Williams is 24 years old and hails from Queens, NY.  He graduated from Cornell University in 2007 with a degree Psychology and has spent the last 2 years working at City Year New York. At City Year, he has planned and ran the Young Heroes Program in Long Island City, Queens, a leadership development service-learning program that teaches middle school youth about social issues that impact their community and then provides the chance to perform service projects that relate to what they discuss. Working with youth and youth development are passions of his and he hopes to use his collegiate experience and his City Year experience to set students up for success at Ithaca College.

 

 

Tatiana Sy is a 2009 Ithaca College graduate who majored in Culture and Communications with a minor in Sports Studies.Tatiana's undergraduate organization involvements included: Senior Week Planner, Student Government Association, and African-Latino Society. Her hometown is Manhattan. Tatiana looks forward to wrking with everone in this new and exciting capacity.

 

The 2009 Peer Leader's

Katherine Leger

Year: Junior

Major: Health Sciences

Hometown: DR

Interests: Medicine, Health Care & Bubble Tea:)

Favorite quote: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”-Lincoln


Collin McDermott

Major: Television-Radio: Audio Production Concentration '09

Hometown: Bronx, NY

Organizations: Center for Student Leadership & Involvement,

Caribbean Students Association, ALS, Brothers 4 Brothers,

Amani Gospel Singers, Students for Christ and Ithaca Community Church

Interest: Music, Sports, Bowling and Sleep

 

DeAsia D. Gilmer

Year:Sophomore, Class of 2012

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland

Interests: neuroscience, health awareness in the African-American community, body image appreciation

Organizations: LEAD in Education, African-Latino Society, Sister 2 Sister, Pre-Medicine Society

Favorite Quote: "Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom" -Gen. George Patten

 

Natasha Tanner

 

Year: Junior

 

Major: Planned Studies

 

Hometown: Philadelphia

 

Interests: Poetry, Comedy, & Honesty, (not necessarily in that order)

 

Organizations: Sister 2 Sister, ALS, SpitThat!, MLK Jr. Scholar

 

Favorite Quote: For one human being to love another; that it perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks. The work for which all other work is but preparation -Rainer Maria Pilke