2013-Tatiana Logan

Tatiana Logan

Major1: Anthropology & Sociology
Major2: Global Communities & the Environment
Thesis: Trash Talk: Understanding Global and Local Environmental Justice Implications of Electronic Waste in Lagos, Nigeria

300 Word Statement

From the Pre-Orientation Service Project through these last few weeks at Lafayette I have garnered a deep pride in our Pards and love for our community. My extensive scholastic and service work has showed me that Lafayette is a community filled with active citizens who are academically engaged and eager to broaden their moral and intellectual lives. Personally grabbing every opportunity for growth, I explored my passions by creating an interdisciplinary major, expanding tutoring and volunteer projects, and pioneering international exchange programs in Russia, Madagascar and Nepal. These experiences shape my Lafayette ideal into someone who not only seizes the day, but also creates opportunities for future generations to develop and push our boundaries of learning and engagement to new levels.

As a Resident Advisor and involved student in social justice programming such as ASB, I work with incredible students, athletes, leaders, and activists all across campus. I have been fortunate enough to connect with a wide breadth of Lafayette groups. With Landis I have become committed to a life of community service, with Greek life I have built foundations of sisterhood and tradition while valuing unselfish leadership, and in academic work I have grappled with theories of society and environmental sustainability.

Yes, I am a total nerd. But I am also an Easton citizen, a volunteer, a mentor, and a teacher. I am an artist, a yogi, and I love to laugh. I represent all of the dynamic and diverse leaders who walk across the quad every day. This Lafayette Ideal is everyone who encompasses values of excellence in a wonderfully complementary paradox of interests and identities. We are the unique intersections that would be unimaginable anywhere else. I will never lose my Lafayette identity as I continue to foster learning, service and accomplishment in my next communities.

 

Academic Activities and Total Years Involved

• Senior Honors Thesis    1
  Anthropology & Sociology department thesis research project titled “Trash Talk: Understanding Global and Local Environmental Justice Implications of Electronic Waste in Lagos, Nigeria.”
• Phi Beta Kappa Society    2
  Elected to the national honors society as a junior for demonstrating both breadth and depth of liberal learning and academic excellence; began lifelong membership senior year.
• Eugene P. Chase Phi Beta Kappa Prize    1
  Awarded to a sophomore(s) who has demonstrated scholarship as a first-year student. Received award in 2011.
• Dean’s List   4
  Qualified for the Dean’s List based on GPA every semester of Lafayette career.
• Delta Delta Delta Senior Academic Award    1
  Presented by Gamma Mu’s alumni chapter to the senior class member with the highest GPA.
• Marquis Scholar    4
• Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation Scholar    4
• Emile Durkheim Society    3
  Academic Club for Anthropology & Sociology students.
• School for International Training    1
  Semester studying abroad in Dakar, Senegal focused on National Identity and the Arts.
• Indepedent Study    1
  During semester abroad in Dakar, Senegal I completed an extensive Independent Study Project titled “Hip Hop Raps and Bottle Caps: the Intersections of Art, Education, and the Environment in Dakar”

 

Campus Activities and Total Years Involved

• Special Interest House Program Assistant    1
  Meet monthly with six presidents of SIH floors to plan semester events, enhance floor aesthetics & dynamics, and provide programming training and resources.
• Resident Advisor    2
  Organized art and cultural, social, and educational programs for 30 residents in Kamine Hall and South College. Administered, disciplined, and advised students in academic, conduct, and social issues.
• Delta Delta Delta    4
  Held an officer’s position as New Member Educator Assistant and the Music Chair from spring 2012 – fall 2012. Tri Delta member since spring 2011.
• BOMA Scholar    1
  Piloted an exchange program between international and domestic students. I traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal during the summer of 2012 and shared my home in Santa Barbara, CA with the same peer the following winter; we expanded the definition of home and Lafayette community.
• Lafayette Leadership Education Committee    2
  As a junior on the committee of students, faculty, and staff, I assisted the event-planning process of the annual leadership conference designed for advanced student leaders at Lafayette. As a senior, we planned a conference for emerging student leaders on campus this winter. I also designed and presented an educational session on being a multicultural competent leader with two talents administrators.
• Kaleidoscope & Office of Intercultural Development Intern
  Interned with Dean Mcknight summer 2012 into this academic year. Planned and implemented the freshman orientation multicultural competency presentation.
• Lafayette Initiative for Malagasy Education (LIME)    3
  As a member of the first group of mentoring LIME students I helped design curriculum, and advise/mentor Malagasy students in US college application process.
• Lafayette Environmental Awareness & Protection (LEAP)    4
  Club member for four year; as a senior I have assisted in the planning of a collaborative Earth Week celebration, I am hosting a brown bag about coal ash, and running the ‘art-from-scrap’ booth.
• QUEST Club Member    4
• Other Club Activities    4
  Ranging from COEXIST and Hillel Society to International Students Association and TEDxLaf, I have been involved with numerous clubs and organizations on campus that embrace unity in our community, diversity, and cultural exploration.

 

Community Service and Total Years Involved

• America Reads, America Counts Team Leader    1
  Coordinate six program coordinators & 70 tutors into tutoring positions at local elementary & middle schools; serve as communication link between professional staff and tutors. Organize Literacy Day and Teen Conference, an annual reading inspiration day for 60 children and teenagers of Easton held on Lafayette’s campus.
• Alternative School Break (ASB) Team Leader    1
  Conceptualized, planned, and implemented a week long service trip to Asheville, NC to study environmental injustice with a faculty adviser and 10 other Lafayette students this spring.
• Modes of Expression Program Coordinator    1
  Designed and implemented weekly artistic, educational activities for middle school youth at the Easton Area Middle School. Managed 6 Lafayette volunteers in mentoring the students. ASB is a student run club that organizes service trips focused on various social issues.
• Teens in the Community Program Coordinator    1
  As a freshman I volunteered with TIC through Landis and was hired as the program coordinator by my sophomore year. I planned with co-coordinator for twice a week mentoring workshops and discussions with 12 teens and 12 volunteers at Easton public housing. Provided training, education and reflection events for volunteers to enhance understanding of large social issues.
• America Reads EAMS Site Coordinator    1
  Coordinated with community partner at Easton Area Middle School and 10 volunteers for three times a week tutoring assistance in the reading specialists’ classrooms.
• KNBT Nonprofit Leadership Development Program    1
  For a six week program in the summer of 2012 I benefitted by learning from local nonprofit leaders through speaker series. We analyzed how nonprofits are successful, through information about strategic planning, financing, boards and volunteers, communication skills, and regulations. We also had the opportunity to communicate with local leaders with the goal of applying new information to my experience interning in a nonprofit in Easton (the Nurture Nature Center).
• Youth Empowerment Day Committee Member    1
  As a student-run club we designed and ran a full day of leadership and empowerment activities for over 100 children of Easton here on the football field with student volunteers from many disciplines and athletic teams at Lafayette.
• Make a Difference Day and Lafapalooza National Day of Service    4
  As a volunteer coordinator on Landis staff I have helped plan these service days across Easton for four years. I have either organized or volunteered at every one of these service days held annually in the Fall and Spring semesters.
• Other Volunteer Activities    4
  Participated in the Relay for Life fundraiser, annual St Jude Children’s Research Hospital fundraisers, and volunteered throughout Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. I have also sat as a panelist and hosted students on annual accepted student days for both Marquis Scholars, Posse Scholars, and other admitted students.
• Pre-Orientation Service Project    1
  Participated as an incoming freshman in the POSP program as a member of the Teens in the Community summer camp group.

 

Athletics and Total Years Involved

 

Special Interest and Total Years Involved

• Interim Course in Kenya    1
  Studied Religion, Society, and Change in East Africa with peers and two Lafayette Professors. Presented on the pedagogy of the course, our intellectual deconstruction of colonial categorization of identities, and our travel experiences on the Kenyan coast and in Maasai land to Lafayette community upon return to campus.
• The Good Body Performance    1
  Performed in the staged reading written by Eve Ensler and directed by Gene Kelly about female body image with students, faculty, and staff this spring.
• Posse Plus Retreat    2
  As a junior I joined the Posse Scholar community of students and advisers in an exploration of gender and sexuality, and how shaping these identities play a role in our Lafayette lives. Similarly, senior year I returned to the retreat to engage in meaningful discourse about power, privilege, and class.
• International Travel Experience    4
  As a freshman I traveled to Moscow and Saint Petersburg with peers and two professors over the spring break as part of our course in Russian and Eastern European History, Art and Culture. That following summer I interned at a sustainable farm in the Dehra Dun valley of northern India. As stated elsewhere, Lafayette has also provided me the opportunities to study and work in Madagascar, Senegal, and Nepal.
• Our Beloved Community Conference Presenter    1
  Presented on the BOMA home switch in Nepal to prospective students.
• Finding We Conference    1
• Safe Zone Training    1
• TEDxLaf    1

Active Brownbag Participant    4
Over the past four years I have attended hundreds of student and guest lectures about every topic under the sun. Whenever I am away from Lafayette for a break I realize how incredibly lucky we are to have access to such amazing knowledge and insights every single day. Brown bags and performances at the Williams Center have been some of my