Volunteer Emory is led by a group of student and professional staff members.
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Surabhi Agrawal
hometown: Miami, FL
major: International Studies
best volunteer experience: This past summer in India when I stayed in a village helping with girl’s education and women’s empowerment projects.
favorite style of music: Indian music- Why is not even a question.
contact Surabhi at: sagraw5@emory.edu
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Kieu-thu Bui
Contact Kieu-thu at: knbui@learnlink.emory.edu |
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Jean Chung
hometown: Apple Valley, MN
major: Linguistics
best volunteer experience: Building a house for a family of seven in Juárez, Mexico with twenty other Emory students during my freshman year spring break. Fifteen-passenger vans are the best vehicles for team bonding.
favorite word: I prefer animal calls to words
Contact Jean at: jchun23@learnlink.emory.edu
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Patrick Cook
hometown: Parker, CO
majors: Mathematics, Computer Science
best volunteer experience: Working with Habitat for Humanity for a week in Mississippi. I learned a lot about the town and I feel like we accomplished a lot.
favorite word: crepuscular
Contact Patrick at: prcook@emory.edu
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Maggie Dancel
Contact Maggie at: pdancel@emory.edu
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Won Eun
hometown: Seoul, Korea
majors: International Studies, East Asian Studies
favorite word: great
Contact Won at: deun@learnlink.emory.edu
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Natalie Gullatt
hometown: Atlanta, GA
major: Computer Science
best volunteer experience: When I was packing up and helping to wrap children’s Christmas gifts in high school. I cried because when I saw the kid’s faces and how happy and grateful they were, I just smiled and cried so hard and it was the very first time I cried because I was happy.
favorite word: Perserverance
Contact Natalie at: natalie.gullatt@emory.edu
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Salima Hassan
hometown: Sugar Land, TX
majors: Finance & Accounting
best volunteer experience: Helping a kid read for the first time.
why I'm basically awesome: I’m a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Contact Salima at: salima.hassan@emory.edu
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Ben Hein, Co-Director
hometown: Westport, CT
majors: History, Economics
best volunteer experience: Jumping-contests with the kids at the Boys and Girls Club in the moon-bounces. Also, getting beat by 7-year-olds at basketball - the pride on their faces was unbeatable.
favorite word: caterpillar
Contact Ben at: benjamin.hein@emory.edu
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Kay Hua
hometown: Lake Mary, FL
majors: English, Creative Writing
best volunteer experience: Every time a kid gives me a big hug and a huge smile.
favorite style of music: Electronic, world music. Because it’s a mix of culture-inspired melodies, groovy beats, soulful vocals, and classical instruments.
Contact Kay at: khua@learnlink.emory.edu
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Kristen Jensen
Contact Kristen at: kajense@learnlink.emory.edu |
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Caitlin Keesee
Contact Caitlin at: ckeesee@emory.edu
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Sang-Eun (Jennice) Lee
Hometown: Seoul, Korea
Majors: Political science and Music
Best volunteer experience: Getting big smiles from elderly people
Favorite style of music: rap
Contact Jennice at: slee74@learnlink.emory.edu
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Howard Li
hometown: Sunnyvale, CA
major: Business
best volunteer experience: Getting high-fives from the kids that I tutored at Drew Charter School
why I am basically awesome: I am trilingual: Chinese, Japanese, English
Contact Howard at: hli38@emory.edu
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Ryan McCarty
hometown: Nashua, NH
major: Biology
best volunteer experience: officiating a 60 minute soccer game at Jones Boys & Girls Club that had the energy of a world cup final and ended in a golden goal overtime victory.
favorite word: hardcore
Contact Ryan at: rsmccar@emory.edu
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Carol Ross
Contact Carol at: ceross@emory.edu
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Julia Saltalamacchia
hometown: Verona, NJ
majors: Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology
best volunteer experience: baking brownies for a soup kitchen. Also, playing with kids with HIV in Jamaica, really the sweetest kids ever.
why I am basically awesome: I have 7 A’s in my full name. And "A" starts the alphabet, and the word awesome, so clearly…
Contact Julia at: jsaltal@emory.edu
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Nihar Thadani
hometown: New Delhi, India
major: undecided, maybe Journalism
best volunteer experience: AIDS walk- exercise and a good breakfast at flying biscuit afterwards!
favorite word: twyfelfontein (place in Namibia)
Contact Nihar at: nthadan@emory.edu
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Meredith West
Contact Meredith at: mnwest@learnlink.emory.edu |
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Nina Yu, Co-Director
hometown: Jacksonville, FL
majors: Music, Biology
best volunteer experience: Getting beat at rummy cube by the nursing home residents at Wesley Woods--I find it exciting and funny to see how competitive they get!
why I am basically awesome: I can recite over 50 Pythagorean triples of a right triangle. Don't ask why.
Contact Nina at: nyu@learnlink.emory.edu
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