Staff biographies
Donner is blessed to have a cadre of dedicated, iron-willed, intelligent, strong, good humored, goofy,and ridiculously, ridiculously good looking staff members. (In case you couldn't tell, one of them is writing this page!) In addition to the RF (Resident Fellow) Linda Paulson, Donner is staffed by 1 writing tutor, 1 PHE (Peer Health Educator), 1 RCC (Resident Computer Consultant), and 3 RAs (Resident Assistants). While the letter that went out earlier this summer had a bit of background on each of our staff members, we decided to have each of them fill out a survey to tell you a bit more about themselves -- anything less structured and more creative would have been too difficult.
Scribe Faciliator (aka Writing Tutor)
Name: Joel
Hometown:Bellingham, WA
Class Year: 2009
Major: The Study of Life, Innovative Scribing, Computational Computation, Italiano, Magick
Activities: Intramural Frisbee, Sand VBall, Occasional running, Expeditions, Photographing things, Innovative Scribing, Piano, Love, Laughter, Eating
Life Plans: Sequester carbon, learn how to write, jet set, sell the jet, beat The Oregon Trail without contracting cholera, build a time machine, progenerate, etc.
Peer Health Educator (PHE):
Name: Brianna
Hometown: Dallas, Texas
Class Year: 2011
Major: Science, Technology, and Society
Activities: Health Education for Life Partnership (Teacher / Co-Leader), Stanford Women's Ultimate Frisbee, Snowboarding, Jolking (Jog-walking) the Dish, Reading (time permitting...), Puzzles & Games
Life Plans: Go to Japan, repel down a waterfall in South America, scuba dive off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia or anywhere else pretty and colorful, travel the Mediterranean and pig out on Italian food :)
Resident Computer Consultant (RCC):
Name: Ryan
Hometown: Mountain View, California
Class Year: 2011
Major: Human Biology
Activities: Dragonboating, being punny, running, fiddling with computers, teaching, messing around on a piano, cycling, night driving, frisbee, watching South Park, late night conversations in dorm hallways, dark chocolate
Life Plans: learn to fly a plane, climb Mt Kilimanjaro, explore Southeast Asia, go sledding in the Andes, eat the cheese the moon is made from, swim in Lake Titicaca, run a marathon
Resident Assistants (RAs)
Name: Michael (aka Huggie)
Hometown:Cincinnati, Ohio (THE GREAT NATI!)
Class Year: 2010
Major: History (minoring in International Relations)
Activities: Math Magic, MLK Papers Project, Stanford NAACP, playing the violin, going to the movies, getting outside and attempt to play a little bball, traveling when I can
Life Plans: Before I hit the bucket, I want to :
1. Travel to all of the new seven wonders of the world.
2. Explore the Amazon Rain forest.
3. Eat gelato (Italian ice cream) from every single gelateria in Italy. (You can tell I love gelato.)
4. Buy an island in the Caribbean.
5. See Mount Everest.
6. Attend the Olympics and the World Cup.
Name: Jane
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Class Year: 2010
Major: English (creative writing)
Activities: making music (in various bands that have disbanded), Stanford Sierra Camp e.g. professional camp counselor, tutoring at East Palo Alto Charter School, sleeping outside at various on-campus locations, brewing
Life Plans: write a screenplay, play for money in a subway, have a beer at the top of the Alps, roadtrip cross-country, see the end of Rear Window
Name: Andrew
Hometown: Columbus, Ohio
Class Year: OH LEVEN! (2011)
Major: Computer Science (dabbling in math and statistics)
Activities: Stanford club water polo, Stanford Pre-Orientation Trips and generally frollicking in the woods, Stanford Sierra Camp counselor emeritus, road biking, attempting to white-water kayak (and failiing), and being snooty about ice cream.
Life Plans: Hike a long trail (either Appalachian or Pacific Crest), go to the Olympics, discover something, travel to another continent, learn to kite board