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Civic Leadership Program: Fellows: Inaugural 2004 Civic Leadership Fellows The Inaugural 2004 Civic Leadership Fellows
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Andrea Alvarez (graduate student; political science and civic leadership) is fulfilling her Civic Leadership Program 7-month internship as an assistant to Dan Shomon, political adviser to US Sen. Barack Obama and consultant to various Democratic candidates and officials. At present, 'Drea' is heading the fundraising efforts of Alexi Giannoulias, a Democratic candidate for Illinois State Treasurer, which entails 60-70 hour work weeks.
As an undergraduate, Drea majored in history and political science and served as president of Delta Zeta Sorority, where she took leadership responsibility for developing a strong new risk management program at the sorority.
Drea also started the peer tutoring program for freshman in political
science through her leadership in Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honorary. Andrea enjoys running and is running in the Shamrock Shuffle this year. Andrea also has interests in the history of women and gender in the 20th.
She recommends reading Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama and Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt. Andrea is an accomplished Risk and Trivial Pursuit player.
Andrea Alvarez
amalvare@uiuc.edu
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| Mark Brown (senior; history and philosophy majors; minor in political science). Currently, Mark is an intern in the office of UIC Chancellor Sylvia Manning, working on community relations and governmental-political issues. After the Civic Leadership master"s in political science, Mark plans to attend law school and possibly tie his law studies with a joint PhD or master"s in public policy. He is intrigued by the idea of leading a major university.
A straight-A student, Mark has been a Chancellor"s Scholar, an honors college for the top 120 students in each freshman class. Mark has a special interest in the history and philosophy of science. For example, he has written papers lauded by his professors on Erasmus Darwin, Malthus, Descartes as well as on the history of biology.
Mark served as president of Phi Chapter of Sigma Pi Fraternity. He also created and managed the first Sigma Pi incoming Freshman Scholarship. He traveled to Brazil as part of an international business immersion program.
Mark"s current reading list includes Robert Penn Warren"s All the King"s Men, Erik Larson"s The Devil in the White City and Stephen Jay Gould"s The Mismeasure of Man.
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mcbrown4/shared/MarkBrown.htm
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Merrin Permut graduated in December 2005 with double majors in political
science and psychology. Now a graduate student in political science and civic leadership, Merrin in working (interning) with Bruce Dold, editor of the editorial page of the Chicago Tribune, and also with Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer Cornelia Grumman.
Treated by Dold as a member of the editorial board, Merrin has organized and has been participating in the newspaper"s editorial endorsement interviews in advance of the March 21 primary election.
Merrin served as president of Chi Omega Sorority and as vice president for judicial affairs for the Pan-Hellenic Council. She also worked at the LAS Alumni office and was an LAS Leader.
Merrin plans to achieve a senior executive position in a major American corporation and bring good ethical practices to the corporate world.
Merrin's favorite book is The Agony and the Ecstasy and recommends it to anyone who loves art. She is also a huge Jane Austen fan. Despite her focus on productive reading in her limited spare time, Merrin's one vice in life is celebrity gossip.
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/permut/CivicLeadership/Merrin.Permut.resume.htm
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| Emily Renwick graduated Magnum Cum Laude with highest honors in political science and international studies in May 2005. Now a graduate student in political science, Emily leaves soon for a semester abroad in Cagliari, Sardinia. She is going with the support of the Civic Leadership Program and the Good Governance Consortium, where she will work with Professor Gianmario Demuro of the Departimento di Giurisdprudenza. This will help prepare her for a career in international and immigration law. Emily will also have an internship with the Sardinian Parliament, which will be a good training for running for office someday.
In the past, Emily has studied abroad in Aix-en-Provence France, Bombay India, and Catania, Sicily. She speaks French and now Italian. While in Italy, Emily hopes to attend conferences in Vienna and St. Gallen, Switzerland. She also plans to visit friends in Verona and Catania, and Dhakar, Senegal.
Emily just received word that she has been awarded a full scholarship to attend a conference Ashlee House in London in April by Americans for Informed Democracy, based on an essay she submitted. This group formed after 9-11 and seeks to educate and involve young American leaders in world affairs.
In addition to traveling, Emily loves to read the newspaper, get into anti-pro debates with the other Civic Leadership Fellows, watch Lou Dobbs and CSPAN, and pretend to be a wine connoisseur. With the help of books like Kevin Zraly"s Windows on the World: Complete Wine Course and Harvy Steiman"s Wine Spectator's Essentials of Wine, Emily now stays away from Sutter House White Zinfandel.
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Kasey Umland received her bachelor's degree in both political science and economics in May 2005. She was awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship in poli sci this fall.
As an undergraduate, Kasey worked in the Campus Leadership Office. For her Civic Leadership internship, her leadership office boss Prof. Ray Price pleaded with her to stay on campus to coordinate the new Champaign-Urbana Partnership for Radical Innovation, Development, and Engagement (C-U PRIDE). This new organization seeks to enhance university-community synergies, and is bringing Kasey into working relationships with leading academics and civic leaders in Champaign-Urbana.
As an undergraduate, Kasey headed Amnesty International on campus and continues as a member of the Chancellor's Licensing Advisory Committee. Her interests include international economics, human rights, and political theory. She is also an avid reader. She highly recommends Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz, Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millenium by UIUC professor A. Belden Fields, Survival in Aushwitz by Primo Levi, anything written by Kurt Vonnegut, and about 50 other books should you ever take the risk of bringing up books in her presence.
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/umland/www/Kasey%20Umland%20resume%20html.html?uniq=lidmsl
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