Writing and Speaking Assistants – Who We Are
Who are we? The 2012-13 cohort of more than 50 Peer Assistants reflects Bates in all its vitality and variety
We sing with TakeNote, Crosstones, Merimanders, Deansmen, and Northfield, host on WRBC, and perform at Pause and the Ronj. You can find us center stage in theater and dance performances and behind the scenes directing, choreographing, designing lighting and sound, building sets, stage-managing, and running the box office. Our group includes JAs and RCs, Bonner Leaders, AESOP trip leaders, Dana Scholars, Volunteer Fellows, Admissions Fellows, TAs, Peer Science Leaders, and HelpDesk and Math Workshop staff.
We’re out in the community with Habitat, Bates Buddies, and at Hillview and Trinity. We write for the Student and for Seed, and are members of the Authors Guild and the Arts House. We’re active in Outing Club, Bates Buddies, Environmental Coalition, OutFront, Film Board, Brooks Quimby Debate, Hillel, Robinson Players, Bates Democrats, Helicase, the Women’s Advocacy Group, Dharma Society, Bates Student Government, Photo Club, and the International Club, among many other groups.
We major and minor in virtually every academic discipline and speak ten languages besides English. We teach yoga and meditation, competitively ski, fence, run, sail, and ballroom-dance, and represent Bates in varsity lacrosse, tennis, soccer, cross country, track and field, and softball, as well as club ice hockey, rugby, fencing, and ultimate frisbee, and a host of IM sports.
You can even find some of us representing the College – and Peer Writing and Speaking – on the small screen: Power of Community: Picture-Perfect Bates Moments
Bates Writing and Speaking Assistants – 2012-13
- Katie Ailes ’14 – ENG 241 Fiction in the U.S. (Mollie Godfrey)
- Allie Balter ’14 – ENVR 205 Environment and Culture (Jane Costlow) and FYS 418 Drawing as Thinking (Gary Rattigan)
- Eric Barry ’13 – GEO 240 Environmental Geochemistry (Bev Johnson) and FYS 190 The Changing Climate of Planet Earth (Mike Retelle)
- Matt Bettles ’13 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and FYS 414 The End of the World (Denis Sweet)
- Ashley Brunk ’13 – EDUC 240 Gender Issues in Education (Patti Buck) and FYS 300 Exploring Education through Narratives (Patti Buck)
- Ali Carley ’14 - Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Kelly Coyne ’13 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and FYS 395 The Sporting Life (Su Langdon)
- Jeremy Cronon ’13 – FYS 320 Trials of Conscience (Margaret Imber)
- Sophie Dalterio ’13 - Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Kristen Doerer ’14 – HIST 241 The Age of the American Revolution (Joe Hall)
- Aly Dowey ’15 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Libby Egan ’13 – EDUC 240 Gender Issues in Education (Patti Buck) and FYS 408 Identity: Self and Community (Sherry Russell)
- Skye Ellement ’15 – AVWS 287 Women, Gender, and Visual Culture and FYS 419 Tobacco in History and Culture (Melinda Plastas)
- Brett Emmons ’15 – FYS 242 Blackness/Whiteness in the Social Imagination (Val Carnegie)
- Zoe Fahy ’13 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and FYS 413 Politics and Language (Jessica Anthony)
- Matt Ferren ’14 - Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Kate Fetrow ’13 - PLRE 304 The Problem of Evil (Tom Tracy) and Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Shoshana Foster ’15 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and FYS 361 Making Music Together (Jim Parakilas)
- Linnea Fulton ’13 - AVWS 287 Women, Gender, and Visual Culture and Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Eliza Gabriel ’15 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Grace Glasson ’14 - AVWS 287 Women, Gender, and Visual Culture
- Lauren Hadiaris ’13 – FYS 417 Religious Intolerance in Contemporary U.S.
- Grace Hamilton ’15 - Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Kayla Hertz ’14 – FYS 297 The Idea of Europe (Dennis Browne)
- Nicole Huang ’14 – FYS 386 Chinese Traditions, Great and Small (Xing Fan)
- Adrienne Jaeger ’13 – PSYC 261 Research Methods (Michael Sargent) and Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Elena Jay ’15 - Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Gretchen Kaija ’14 – FYS 354 Environment as Story (Sharon Kinsman)
- Suraj Karmacharya ’14 - Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Mollie Kervick ’13 – ENG 241 Fiction in the U.S. (Mollie Godfrey) and FYS 416 Borders, Belonging, Boundaries (Lauren Vedal)
- Nick Kinnon ’15 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and FYS 271 Into the Woods (Gwen Lexow)
- Elise Levesque ’13 – PYWS 343 Women, Culture, and Health (Su Langdon) Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Helen Lober ’15 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and FYS 324 Archeology of the Celtic World (Gerry Bigelow)
- Deana Lorenzo ’13 - Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Matt Maley ’13 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and FYS 384 Seeing the World through Mathematics (Pallavi Jayawant)
- Joshua Manson ’15 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Ali Millard ’14 - Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Hannah Mitchell ’14 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and EDWS 280 Globalization and Education (Patti Buck)
- Joanna Moody ’14 – ASJA 125 Japanese Literature and Society (Sarah Strong), FYS 398 The Chemistry of Color (Rachel Austin), and FYS 274 Physics in the Twentieth Century (Hong Lin)
- Danya Morris ’13 – EDPY 262 Community-Based Research Methods (Krista Aronson), FYS 84 Anatomy of a Few Small Machines (Gene Clough), and Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Aung Myint ’14 – PLTC 225 International Security (Jason Scheideman) and FYS 385 Power and Authority in Latin America through Film (Clarisa Perez-Armendariz)
- Dan Peach ’13 – PHIL 256 Moral Philosophy (Susan Stark ) and FYS 288 Luck and the Moral Life (Susan Stark)
- Alanna Prince ’13 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and FYS 135 Women in Art (Becky Corrie)
- Carlie Rice ’13 – REL 247 The City on the Hill (Marcus Bruce) and FYS 152 Religion and Civil Rights (Marcus Bruce)
- Nyle Rioux ’14 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Emily Roseman ’15 - Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Nick Sneath ’13 – PLTC 243 Politics and Literature (Arlene MacLeod)
- Quincy Snellings ’15 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and FYS 412 Constructing the Normal: Introduction to Disability Studies (Theri Pickens)
- Sarah Streat ’14 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Natalie Thompson ’13 – ENG 241 Fiction in the U.S. (Mollie Godfrey) and FYS 415 Banned Books (Matteo Pangallo)
- Carla Tilchin ’13 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and FYS 410 Genetically Modified Organisms (Bob Thomas)
- Emma Timbers ’14 – FYS 203 Family Values: Tales of Family and Kinship Across Cultures (Kirk Read)
- Erica Van Sciver ’15 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and WFYS 381 Visualizing Identities (Aimée Bessire)
- Sili Wang ’13 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- David Weinman ’15 – PLTC 225 International Security (Jason Scheideman)
- Stephanie Wesson ’14 - FYS 330 Moral Questions and Political Choices (Arlene MacLeod) and Peer Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Janée White ’13 - Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd
- Katie Williams ’15 – HIST 241 The Age of the American Revolution (Joe Hall) and FYS 401 Reading the Wild in Literature and Film (Misty Beck)
- Tori Zapack ’13 – Writing and Speaking Center in Ladd and FYS 249 Global Economy and Nation-State (Francesco Duina)