WiSE Student Coordinator Information
As Coordinators for WiSE, students take on leadership roles, are enthusiastic, motivated and are excited about working with faculty as well as students. These positions require students to be able to engage with and provide information from the Dean's Office to student volunteers. There is also the need to promote cooperation between Coordinator Groups as well as between DUGs/other student groups.
The coordinator positions are largely self-driven in that being leaders of WiSE, the students are responsible for planning and following through on their activities (see descriptions below) and also work with and help out with general program and individual coordinator events. The WiSE coordinators meet as a group with Dean Targan and Geeta Chougule Assistant for WiSE, once a week to update each other on their individual activities and brainstorm ideas for future WiSE events and plans.
Student Coordinators for 2007-2008 are:
1. Zarah Hirji -- Alumni/Career Connection Coordinator
2. Julia Heneghan -- Departmental Events Coordinator
3. Jasmine Heva Saadatmand -- Campus/Student Group Outreach Coordinator
4. Kathryn Roberts -- Freshman Events Coordinator
5. Alina Garbuzov -- Mentoring Program Coordinator
6. Brenna Brucker -- Mentoring Program Coordinator
7. Aditi Bhaskar -- New Scientist Program Coordinator
8. Anne Fabricant -- Affinity Groups Coordinator
9. Julia Green -- Upperclassmen Events Coordinator
10. Barbara (Violet) Dancheck -- Graduate Student Coordinator
11. Jaime Toney - Graduate Student Liason
Quotes by Student Coordinators for Ideas and purpose of WiSE :
“To engage a large group of women students in sciences across departments and majors.”
“The goal of WiSE should be to make individuals feel that they have ownership in the Program, as well as to be active in the facilitation of transitions necessary for women in the sciences to make before their time at Brown, while at Brown, and then into the world after Brown.”
"Getting freshmen invovled is the most important task of WiSE because it is only with a strong foundation of students who will be at Brown for a few more years that WiSE can grow into the visible and influential orgnzation that I know it should be! With the right steps taken and some good organization, WiSE could become one of those "things" that people think about when they think about Brown or hear about on their undergraduate tours, like the Van Wickle Gates or the Meicklejohn program. Brown is the perfect place for female scientists because it is both progressive and prestigious, and developing the WiSE program to exploit this unique binary is too good of an opportunity for the establishment of women in science everywhere to pass up."