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Civic Leadership Program: Fellows: 2006 Civic Leadership FellowsThe 2006 Civic Leadership Fellows
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Sophie Doroba of Moline is a James Scholar, a student senator and an officer in Chi Omega Sorority and Atius Sachem Leadership Honorary. A double major in psychology and political science, Doroba chairs the governmental affairs committee of the student senate, which works in Springfield on student issues. [top]
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Kevin Fanning of Inverness is a member of Phi Eta Sigma Honors fraternity and an officer in Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity. Headed for law school, Fanning worked at a major Chicago law firm this past summer and now is a student assistant in the trial advocacy courses at the UIUC College of Law. Fanning tutors underprivileged children in English and math. [top]
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Katherine Hamilton
of Glen Ellyn is interning this semester for the Good Morning America television program in New York City. A print journalism major, Hamilton devoted the past summer to work in Phoenix, AZ at a home for homeless, pregnant women. An active journalist, Hamilton has written extensively about poverty in Champaign County, Illinois. [top]
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Amber Kirchhoff
of Cahokia is a graduate of the Illinois Math and Science Academy who is applying her quantitative skills to double majors in political science and sociology. A Chancellor"s Scholar, Kirchhoff is president of the campus chapter of the national Organization for Women and tutors after school for the Champaign County Urban League. [top]
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Michael Perkins of Lacon is a molecular and cellular biology major. Perkins chairs the appropriations committee of the student senate, and mentors at a local grade school. During summers, Perkins is a hiking counselor in the Colorado mountains. He is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma honor societies. [top]
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A Political Science and Afro- American studies double major, Tarita Preston of Chicago has always had a passion for grassroots politics, public policy and community development. She has worked for U. S Senator Barack Obama's Campaign in 2004, and is interested in bridging the gap between technology and inner city youth. Tarita is President of New Orleans Project Evolution, active in Inner Voices Social Issues, a McKinley Health Peer and is a tutor for Canaan Academy students. [top]
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Zenobia Ravji of Westmont speaks and writes Swahili, Spanish, Gujarati (a language of western India) and Avesta (the ancient language of Persia). Ravji chairs the student senate committee on cultural and minority affairs and is on the Board of TEAM, a multicultural initiative on campus. Ravji also co-hosted The Champaign Room, a local television program about local, national and international politics and has spent time volunteering in developing communities of Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru. She is majoring in economics, Spanish and Pre-Med. [top]
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Gabriel Rodriguez of Franklin Park received a Ronald McNair Summer Research Fellowship in 2006 and was selected to present his findings on Latino voting trends at the 15th annual McNair Research Conference. A political science and speech communications double major, Rodriguez is a multicultural advocate for the University and is active in several Latino campus organizations. [top]
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Gail Schnitzer of Highland Park gave her first political speech in 5th grade as part of a Junior Miss Pageant, on the topic of deforestation of tropical rain forests, and she has been speaking and debating ever since. Schnitzer, who will graduate in two-and-a-half years with a major in political science, recently debated the English national debate champions and founded the College Congressional Debate Association. A political junkie, Schnitzer has been working in Democratic campaigns at home and on campus for years as an intern with both State Reps. Karen May and Naomi Jakobsson and as the founder of "Young Tenth Dems". She is a former political director of the College democrats, student senator, directs Volunteer Illini Projects' Community Justice program. Schnitzer spent her last summer studying the politics and people of China in Hong Kong. [top]
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A Filippino immigrant, John Marc Sianghio, Jr. of Oswego is an English literature and political science double major. An officer of the Illinois Evangelical Christian Union and the Koinonia Christian Brotherhood, Sianghio is a vocalist with the University Baptist Church Worship Team. Sianghio worked this past summer on pro bono asylum cases at the Winston & Strawn law firm in Chicago. [top] |
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