Erin Brady is a senior CELS Fellow from Bethlehem, Pa., double-majoring in environmental studies and government. She is also a scholar in the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies (CCBES). With this center, Erin will be completing an integrative project focusing on improving environmental literacy through charter education. Erin spent her junior fall semester in Copenhagen, Denmark studying European Politics and Society with the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. This past summer, Erin interned with the Urban Education Leaders Internship Program with the District of Columbia Public Schools Office of the Chancellor. Currently Erin is the chair of the environmental studies student advisory board and is the treasurer for the Renewable Energy Club. After graduation, Erin plans to attend graduate school in the field of public policy focusing on urban environmental policy. You can contact Erin at erin.brady@conncoll.edu.
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Bianca Drew is a senior CELS fellow from Southern California majoring in psychology with a minor in economics. Bianca has a passion for helping and mentoring peers and others. During the past three years, Bianca has worked with Unity House as an ALANA Big Sister mentoring incoming freshman students of color through their first year of college. Bianca is a member of the Connecticut College Gospel Choir as well as serving as the club’s treasurer. She is also the treasurer for the Connecticut College Psi Chi Chapter, the Psychology National Honor Society.  Bianca studied abroad in Vietnam through the SATA program. Over the summer, Bianca interned at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey researching child internet victimization and life without parole for juveniles. Bianca plans go to graduate school to pursue a master’s degree in forensic psychology. Bianca can be contacted at bdrew@conncoll.edu.
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Abigail Philip, a senior economics major and classics minor, is a senior CELS fellow. Born in Chicago, and currently from Massachusetts, she has two sisters, one of whom is her twin. After college she hopes to take a few years off of school to get some work experience before moving out to California to pursue graduate school. Her favorite sport is cross-country running. She studied abroad at St. Andrews in Scotland during spring semester 2009. While living in Cambridge, Mass. over the summer, she interned for Fernwood Investment Management LLC. in Quincy. Abi can be reached at aphilip@conncoll.edu.
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Zoe Philip is a senior CELS fellow majoring in economics with a minor in psychology. Zoe studied abroad her junior year at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. She is a member and group leader of N20, the only short-form improv comedy group on campus. She is also a member of the Renewable Energy Club, acting as a liaison between the club and N20 for activities. In the summer of 2008, she toiled around campus as a curator aide for the Connecticut College Arboretum (without getting poison ivy!). In the fall of her junior year, she tutored in economics, as well as working as a CELS junior fellow. This summer, Zoe interned at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. While she wasn’t in a research lab with the scientists, she was working in communications and development to help raise money and plan the 2010 ummer symposium. Zoe hopes to utilize the CELS’ resources to figure out life after college. Reach Zoe at zphilip@conncoll.edu.
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Ashton Rohmer is a senior CELS fellow from Connecticut majoring in government. The summer of 2009, she interned with the Hudson Institute, a policy think tank in Washington, DC. doing research on security studies and foreign policy for their Center for Political-Military Analysis. She plans to use the knowledge she gains through her internship while writing her honors thesis on security issues in the US. She has a strong interest in environmental issues, and is an active member of the Renewable Energy Club; the fall semester of her junior year she traveled to Costa Rica to study sustainable development issues. She has also volunteered with OVCS and served on the government department's student advisory board. After she graduates from Connecticut College, she hopes to either attend law school or earn her master’s degree in government. You can contact Ashton at arohmer@conncoll.edu.
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Anya Romanet, a senior CELS fellow double-majoring in international relations and economics, was born in Chisinau, Moldova, where her parents still reside. After studying at the American Hebrew Academy, spending two months in Israel as a Bronfman Fellow, and working as a speaker for the UJC, she developed an interest in Middle East political and economic affairs. A CISLA scholar, Anna interned at the Bank Conference Ltd. in Moscow during the summer of 2009, where she conducted extensive research on Russia’s political and economic role in the Middle East. During the fall semester of 2008 Anna studied at Tel Aviv University in Israel, where she was exploring and scrutinizing key issues related to Israel’s national security and Middle East affairs. An active leader on Connecticut College campus, Anna works as a media services assistant, is a former chair of ATLAS international club, a chair of the Slavic studies student advisory board, and a language fellow. She dreams of pursuing her passions by studying law to become a qualified specialist who dares to fight for peace in the Middle East. You can contact Anna at aromanet@conncoll.edu.

Junior CELS Fellows

Nicole Adduci is a junior CELS fellow from Bridgewater, Mass. She is double-majoring in English and medieval studies with a minor in Italian. Nicole hopes to go abroad in the spring of 2010. She also plans to complete a CELS funded internship related to book publishing, the field she would like to enter after graduation. Nicole is a member of the Connecticut College Equestrian Team and Cadenza, one of the College's literary magazines. She also works for Advancement Services. Nicole can be reached at nadduci@conncoll.edu.
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Stanislav (Stassi) Andreev is a junior CELS fellow from Sofia, Bulgaria, double-majoring in economics and international relations. Throughout his continuous involvement with Junior Achievement (a non-profit organization that promotes economic education) in both Bulgaria and the US, Stassi developed a deep interest in international business, which he has enhanced with two consecutive summer internships with a global financial institution in Sofia, Bulgaria and London, UK, and a summer course at the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania). At Connecticut College, Stassi is an active member of the Peggotty Investment Club's board of directors and tutors his peers in macroeconomics and econometrics. At the same time, he has a passion for diplomacy and foreign relations, which he often expresses through articles on related topics for the College newspaper, The College Voice. In his free time, Stanislav plays tennis and enjoys serious films and music from around the world. You can contact Stassi at sandreev@conncoll.edu

Kristin Crichlow, a Bronx, N.Y. native, is a CELS junior fellow. A psychology and sociology double major who plans to pursue a career in the I/O psychology field, she interned at a non-profit consulting firm in New York City in summer 2008, and in summer 2009, she interned at Connecticut College Office of Human Resources. She is vice president of Eclipse, co-chair of UMOJA, and SAC representative for the Class of 2011. As a diversity peer educator, she hopes to increase awareness about various diversity issues, beginning on our campus and hopefully later affecting the world. She is also a former track and field sprinter and now participates in the volleyball club on campus. When not in class or doing CELS-related activities, she works at OVCS (Office of Volunteers for Community Service), media services, and the annual giving office in Becker House. You can reach Kristin at kcrichlo@conncoll.edu
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Page Fournier is a junior CELS fellow from Amesbury, Mass. She is completing a double major in English and art history. A Connecticut College tour guide and a member of the Club Lacrosse team, she will continue to pursue studies in both English and art history during her study abroad semester at University College London in the fall of 2009. She is hoping to take part in a funded internship in the summer of 2010 and enjoyed her job as a pre-school teacher’s aide during the summer of 2009. You can reach Page at pfournie@conncoll.edu
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Gary Ng is a junior CELS fellow double-majoring in mathematics and economics with a minor in psychology. An active student leader on campus, Gary has served as co-chair of the math student advisory board, treasurer of the Asian/Asian-American Student Association (CCASA), and one of three student representatives on the Priorities, Planning and Budget Committee (PPBC) over the past year. He is also actively involved in Peggotty Investment Club, where he will be the general portfolio manager for the upcoming year. Born and raised in Singapore, he spent the past summers interning with the Ministry of Finance in his home country and an investor relations consulting firm Taylor Rafferty in Hong Kong. Gary will be studying abroad in London in the fall of 2009 and hopes to pursue a career in finance or consulting after graduation. You may reach him at yng@conncoll.edu
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