Kate DeConinck is a senior and is double majoring in English and religious studies.  Kate loves to travel and, in fall of 2006, she was fortunate enough to study abroad in Rome as a participant in the SATA Rome program.  For her CELS funded internship, Kate worked at the Pluralism Project at Harvard where she researched and mapped Hindu and interfaith groups in the greater Boston area.  This year, she will be writing a thesis in religious studies which will focus on religion in prisons.   Kate will also be involved in a range of other activities on campus, as she is a tutor in the Writing Center, co-chair of the Religious Studies Advisory Board, and Housefellow of Burdick. Contact Kate.
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Nour Goda is a senior CELS Fellow, majoring in English and completing a minor in Religious Studies.  In fall 2006, she studied abroad in Rome with a SATA group.  Nour is also an Senior Admission Fellow and helped coordinate the 2007 Freshmen Orientation.  This past summer, she completed her CELS internship at the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. Nour is co-director of the spring dance show, “Eclipse”, and co-hosted CONNVerse open-mics this past year.  She participated in the 2006 Habitat for Humanity building trip to Alabama post the Hurricane Katrina disasters.  Nour plans on applying to graduate schools in the field of Religious Studies, focusing on Middle-Eastern and Islamic Studies.  She is from the Bronx and has two sisters. Contact Nour.
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Gabe Sidman is a senior CELS Fellow from Wayzata, Minnesota majoring in environmental studies with a minor in history. He is a scholar in the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies (CCBES) and plays on Conn's Ultimate Frisbee Club team. He spent last spring in Granada, Spain on an IES study abroad program.  Last summer, he completed his internship at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, PA.  There, he worked with the Natural Resources division on an Eastern Box Turtle inventory of the park’s wooded areas. Contact Gabe.
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Heather Stanish is a senior CELS Fellow majoring in behavioral neuroscience and biology.  She is a member of the women's cross-country and track teams, a member of the biology advisory board and is doing an independent study with her neuroscience adviser on neurogenesis and exercise. Heather also spends some weekends working at a local hospital lab and has been with CELS since her freshman year. She spent this past summer as a research intern at Harvard Medical School in the Center for Neurological Diseases in Boston, MA. In the future, she hopes to go to medical school and possibly work in geriatrics. Contact Heather.
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Caitlyn Turgeon is a senior CELS Fellow with major in international relations and a minor in economics.  She will be doing a senior thesis on the difficulty of implementing national security policy in the American bureaucracy; specifically the politics of implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. She is interested in finance and intelligence analysis.  Caitlyn has been interning with a private equity firm for the past year and spent Spring '07 abroad in Seville, Spain.  Caitlyn has been involved with SGA, chairs the Government Department student advisory board, and has recently authored a chapter to be published in a professor's upcoming manuscript.  She loves working out, the beach, ice cream and spending time with her family. Contact Caitlyn.
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Kristen Van Slyke is a senior CELS Fellow, international relations and sociology-based human relations double major. This past summer, Kristen interned at a law firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm worked in many different areas of law, including real estate, bankruptcy, employment, wills and estates, and litigation. Academically, she is interested in international terrorism and is writing an honors thesis utilizing the balance of threat theory to predict and evaluate states’ responses to terrorism. During the summer of 2006, Kristen studied Spanish and economics at the University of Alicante in Alicante, Spain. She is also the captain of the Women’s Varsity Ice Hockey team and a lifeguard at the Coast Guard Academy. After graduation, she plans on going to law school. Contact Kristen.
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Becca Wells is a senior CELS Fellow, double-majoring in Hispanic and Latin-American Studies and with a minor in Economics. She spent her junior year semester-abroad in Chile, where she studied Economic Development and Globalization. For her CELS internship, Becca traveled to Quito, Ecuador where she worked with a Fair Trade-based organization called Fundacion Sinchi Sacha. With Sinchi Sacha, Becca gave tours in their Ethnohistoric Arts and Crafts Museum called Mindalae, worked in Tianguez (a Fair Trade retail store), and spent some time at their ecotourism cabins in the Amazon. In her spare time, Becca enjoys working at Flavours of Life - The Fair Trade store in New London, doing yoga, and playing bassoon. Contact Becca.
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Ward Cook is a junior CELS Peer Advisor majoring in biology with a concentration in cell and molecular biology and plans to pursue a career in medicine.  He is from Marblehead, MA, twenty minutes outside of Boston.  This summer he got his EMT license and hopes to work part time in New London during the school year.  He also spent time volunteering at a local pediatric psychiatry center.  He is president and treasurer of club Broomball and a member of the CC Futbol Club at school.  Ward also participates in Kids, Books, and Athletics through OVCS and is a member of the Ski Club at Conn.  He hopes to do his CELS internship abroad in the summer of 2008 because he is unable to go abroad this year. Contact Ward.
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Brett Juliano is a junior CELS Peer Advisor and is completing his triple major in International Relations, French and Economics.  In addition to being a CELS peer advisor Brett is committed to the Peggotty Investment Club, the college’s Priorities, Planning, and Budget Committee (PPBC), and the Mystic Aquarium as a SCUBA volunteer.  Brett was both a former Track and Field sprinter and Student Activities Committee (SAC) leader for two years.  His passions include learning Turkish, sailing, and performing on the harmonica. Contact Brett.
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Yalidy Matos is a junior CELS Peer Advisor from NYC double majoring in Gender and Women’s Studies and English. Yalidy is currently the co-chair of The Feminist Majority and an active leader in issues surrounding gender equity and rights. Yalidy spent this past summer interning at The League of Women Voters in the national office in Washington, DC and plans to continue advocating in the field of women’s issues and equality. Yalidy has been a part of the annual Dance/Talent show Eclipse and was part of the exec board the academic year of 06-07. Yalidy also works with the Affirmative Action Officer making sure the college has a diverse pool of applicants for teaching positions. After graduation Yalidy plans to attend graduate school in the field of public policy concentrating in feminist theory. Contact Yalidy.
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Zuzana Ozanova is a junior CELS Peer Advisor who is a film and economics double major. She was born in Zvolen, Slovakia, where her whole family still resides. Having completed 2 years at an international boarding school in New Mexico, she transferred to Connecticut College after a year at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. When she is not in class or working for CELS, she works at Media Services center and the campus bar, kick boxes or attends meetings of the Student Film Organization and the Pegotty Investment Club. Besides her plans to study in Spain or Latin America in order to improve her language skills, she is currently deciding upon the direction of her future career. Next summer she hopes for an internship in either finance or film. Contact Zuzana.
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Peter St. John is a junior CELS Peer Advisor from Essex, Massachusetts majoring in Sociology Based Human Relations major with a minor in French at Connecticut College.  Peter completed a PR internship in New York City this past summer.  Since then he has decided to pursue his interest in Human Rights for his CELS Funded internship.  With a passion for travel and yearning for life experience he has spent a large part of his high school career traveling around the world from Senegal to Paris to Cambodia.  He is hoping to spend his junior spring semester studying abroad in Madagascar on a SIT program.  It is this same pursuit for hands on experience that attracts Peter to the CELS mission and helping his peers gain useful, real life experience and knowledge. Contact Peter.
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