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Alyssa Bisanz
Alyssa is a junior undergraduate student studying political science
and an honors student in Barrett, The Honors College. She is a proud
native Arizonan from Mesa. She serves as a Board of Directors member
and Impact Steering Committee member for America’s Promise Alliance - an
organization founded by General Colin Powell to make America’s youth a
national priority. Alyssa also serves as a board member for State
Farm’s Youth Advisory Board which oversees a $5 million/year
service-learning initiative. She is the leader and founder of STARS
(Students Taking Action and Responsibility through Service) and is an
intern for the College Savings Foundation.
Alyssa is a three-time Prudential Spirit of Community Award
Distinguished Finalist, a recipient of the Arizona Governor’s Volunteer
Service Award, an ASU Capitol Scholar and Junior Fellow, a Hon Kachina
Honoree and honored by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute as a
Young Leader of Today. She is a passionate advocate for children’s
issues focusing on education, specifically high school graduation rates
and financial literacy.
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Jesus Manuel Cera
Jesus is a first-year undergraduate in the School of Community
Resources & Development studying Nonprofit Leadership &
Management. He is a native of Phoenix. As a student, Jesus is the
Interact District Governor for Rotary District 5490, which serves as the
governing body that oversees all high school interact activities within
the district. He works with Teach For America and also volunteers as
the youth coordinator for the committee to elect Jason Williams for
State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Jesus is interested in the
nonprofit sector and plans to pursue a career in the field.
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Ian Tyler Danley
Ian is in his second year of the Master of Public Policy program in
the ASU School of Public Affairs. He is a native of Phoenix. Ian works
for Neighborhood Ministries, a local nonprofit, directing the high
school and social justice programs. He is interested in issues of
migration, poverty, and community development, and hopes to apply his
degree towards facilitating increased and healthier dialogues that allow
for good policy here in Arizona.
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Dimple C. Dhanani
Dimple is an honors student in her senior year majoring in religious
studies while also pursuing a Certificate in Religion and Conflict in
the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. A proud
Arizona native, Dimple enjoys putting on health and education and career
development programs for her local community. She is also involved in
numerous community service activities through her temple. Dimple is
very interested in global issues. Recently, she, along with a group of
students from ASU and Teri University in Delhi, India, were finalists in
a competition involved in helping develop social businesses to assist
bottom-of-the-economic pyramid consumers in impoverished communities.
Dimple has several interests ranging from international development to
comparative philosophy, but her concentration remains religious conflict
and religious discourse. She hopes to apply her degree towards her
goals to create a more cohesive and interdisciplinary perspective of
religious conflict in both government and academia.
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Regina Duran
Regina is in her third year of undergraduate studies at ASU. She is a
double major in Nonprofit Leadership and Management (College of Public
Programs) and Business with a concentration in Global Politics (W. P.
Carey School of Business). She is originally from Mexico City, but has
lived in Arizona for 12 years. Regina is in the ASU Leadership
Scholarship Program and founded Oxfam Club at ASU, a social justice
club. She is interested in international development and social
entrepreneurship and plans to eventually work with international
nonprofits to help invest in social entrepreneurs around the world.
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Erica Skogebo Edwards
Erica is in her second year of the Ph.D. in Public Administration
program in the ASU School of Public Affairs. She is originally from
Boerne, Texas, but has lived in a number of places, most recently St.
Louis. Erica sits on the Alzheimer’s Association Public Policy
committee, is an American Anthropological Association member, and is
also a research assistant for the Morrison Institute for Public Policy.
She is interested in aging/disability policy and plans to apply her
degree towards researching and publishing to advance change, as well as
becoming a professor, running a state or federal agency, and serving in
public office.
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David Arthur Jackson
David is in the second year of law school at the Sandra Day O’Connor
College of Law at ASU. He is originally from Houston, Texas where he
taught fourth-grade reading and writing in a low-income school. David
is a member of the Pro Bono Board and is Director of the Junior
Law/Court Works program with the Office of Youth Preparation. He is
interested in issues of educational inequity and equal justice and plans
on becoming a school board member while practicing law in Phoenix.
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Auriane M. Koster
Auriane is a third-year doctoral student studying sustainability in
the ASU School of Sustainability. She is originally from Wakefield,
Rhode Island. Auriane is involved in the GK-12 Sustainable Schools
program, is the Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA)
representative for the Health Facilities Board, and is a member of the
Wrigley Lecture Series Committee. She is also a foster parent for
Amazing Aussies. Auriane is interested in renewable energy development
and hopes to apply her degree towards implementing renewable-energy
technologies in developing countries as a way of sustainable
development.
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Leah Luben
Leah is a sophomore undergraduate studying economics in the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Nonprofit Leadership & Management
in the School of Community Resources and Development. She is
originally from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. As a student, Leah is a
community assistant in the Sustainability House at Barrett, the Honors
College. She is also co-president of United Students for Fair Trade at
ASU. Leah is interested in international trading and aid policies and
hopes to apply her degrees toward shaping sustainable, economic
community development programs across Latin America.
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Marcos Jerome Martinez
Marcos recently completed a master’s degree in social work and is
beginning the Ph.D. program in social work at ASU. He is originally
from Las Vegas, New Mexico - a small community that borders the Rocky
Mountains and Great Plains. As a student, he and a fellow colleague
established a Nebraskans for Peace chapter - the oldest peace and
justice organization in the country - and re-established a College
Democrats chapter at Dana College. Marcos was the head assistant
wrestling and tennis coach at Robertson High School, as well as head k-5
junior wrestling coach. He is interested in policy, working with
youth, and community development, and hopes to be in a position to
improve his community and state through comprehensive legislation and
community outreach.
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Sharlissa Kristine Moore
Sharlissa is in her third year of the Human and Social Dimensions of
Science and Technology Ph.D. program in the ASU Graduate College. She
is originally from Rapid City, South Dakota. Sharlissa is the research
assistant for the Senior Vice President for Knowledge Enterprise
Development at ASU. She also serves on the board of Student Pugwash
USA, was a student volunteer for the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy last summer, and will be working for the Science and
Technology Policy Institute this summer. Her research relates to
climate change and energy policy, and she plans to apply this research
to a federal career in science and technology policy.
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Kaitlyn Redfield-Ortiz
Kaitlyn is in her second year at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of
Law at ASU. She is an Arizona native, and attended the University of
Notre Dame, where she earned a BA in political science with minors in
public policy and gender studies. After college, she returned to
Phoenix, where she taught second grade for three years with Teach for
America. At the law school, she is involved with the Advocacy Program
against Domestic Violence, OUTLaw and the Women Law Students’
Association. She is interested in equal rights for minority groups and
marginalized populations, education of low-income students, and teen
pregnancy prevention. Kaitlyn hopes to one day work in these areas to
improve the lives of Arizona families.
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Carissa Taylor
Carissa is in her first year of the Ph.D. program at the ASU School
of Sustainability. Originally from Orcas Island, Washington, she
received her Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies at Trinity
Western University, Canada in 2006. As a student at ASU, Carissa is
coordinator for the Local Food Working Group – an academic/community
partnership performing applied research projects to understand and
augment the sustainability of Phoenix’s food system. Carissa is
interested in local food system sustainability and plans to develop a
program designed to bring university and community partners together to
address local food system issues through transformative institutional
design.
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Bryan David Tom
Bryan is in his second year of undergraduate studies in economics at
the W. P. Carey School of Business and Asian languages (Mandarin
Chinese). Although a native Arizona, his education has led Bryan to
study and intern out-of-state and abroad. Bryan is currently studying
at East China Normal University in Shanghai on a U.S. Department of
State program. He is examining China’s NGO expansion in addition to
learning about China’s societal and economic development. Specifically,
Bryan is analyzing how potential changes in China’s current education
policy could enable migrant school children to perform better on middle
and high school placement exams. Eventually, he hopes to work for the
State Department and design educational policy for America’s future
generations. In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis, singing,
playing the piano, and traveling.
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Jennifer K. Truong
Jennifer is an undergraduate senior studying finance and marketing in
the W. P. Carey School of Business. She was born and raised in
Chandler, Arizona and loves it here. She is co-chairman for Camp Kesem -
a national, nonprofit organization which raises funds to hold a summer
camp for kids who have parents with cancer. Jennifer is also a W. P.
Carey Business Ambassador, where she represents the business school at
events. She is interested in innovativeness, community development, and
international affairs. Ultimately, Jennifer hopes to establish her own
micro-enterprise network to help build opportunities in emerging
nations.
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Adam G. Voci
Adam is a first-year MBA student at the W. P. Carey School of
Business. He is originally from Victor, NY and a graduate of the United
States Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science in physics and a
minor in philosophy. Adam is currently a military intelligence officer
in the U.S. Air Force stationed at Luke Air Force Base. He is a project
leader for Hands On Greater Phoenix, a tutor for seventh- and
eighth-graders in various subjects, and an organizer of community events
for Luke AFB. Adam is interested in law, business, science, history,
and world issues. He plans to use his academic and real-world
experiences to better understand a complex and multi-faceted American
society and perpetuate the principles of democracy during a lifetime of
government service.
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Tyson Yazzie
Tyson is in his third year of the Bachelor of Science in Criminology
and Criminal Justice. He is originally from the community of
Cornfields, Arizona, located within the Navajo Nation. As a student,
Tyson has been involved in the Associated Students of ASU – Downtown
Phoenix campus as a Judicial Board member. He has also been involved
with the American Indian Student Support Services. During respites,
Tyson serves as a prosecutor intern with the White Collar Crime Unit of
the Navajo Nation Office of the Prosecutor. He is interested in
criminal justice issues, Federal Indian Law, and innovative laws that
promote sustainability and conservation, which fosters the corn pollen
path and concept of beauty and harmony of the Navajo Nation. Tyson
aspires to become a tribal prosecutor and eventually a tribal judge for
the Navajo Nation upon completing law school.
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