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Emerging Leaders

The Emerging Leaders program is an eight-week course designed to introduce leadership topics to a cohort of new and beginning leaders. Topics include leadership styles, managing conflict, stress management, and more.

The Emerging Leaders Program will:

Introduce leadership involvement opportunities at Mason
Allow for students to build a relationship network with students, faculty, and staff
Provide a great opportunity to meet new people
Get connected to activities on campus
Grow personally while enhancing your leadership potential

This year's Emerging Leaders Program will cover the following topics:

Workshop #1: Mason: The Basics
Workshop #2: Leadership Styles
Workshop #3: Interpersonal Communications
Workshop #4: Creating a Personal Vision
Workshop #5: Time and Stress Management
Workshop #6: Diversity
Workshop #7: Leadership Film Series
Workshop #8: Commencement

Class of 2008: Emerging Leaders

D'Leon Barnett
Freshman
Major: Integrative Studies with a Concentraiton in Pre-Law
Minor: Business and Leadership
Favorite Quote: "We do what we have to do in order to do what we want to." ~ The Great Debaters
Involvement: Student Government, Black Student Alliance, NAACP, College Democrats, Mason Ambassador, Akoma Circle, Alumni Mentoring Program, New Century College Ambassador, New Century College Mentoring Program, and Emerging Leaders

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Aline Sandouk
Junior
Major: Chemistry, Concentration in Biochemistry
Minor: French
Favorite Quote: "Leadership is about making the best even better."
Involvement: Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity, College of Science Student Advisory Council, Student Activities Leader Board, Presidential Leadership Dialogues, Emerging Leaders Program, Science and Technology Umbrella Leader, French Cultural Society President, Chemistry Student Association Vice President

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Brian Freedman
Freshman
Major: Computer Science
Favorite Quote: "Don't be an idiot. Before everything I do, I always ask myself if I always ask myself if I would call myself an idiot for doing whatever that action may be. If the answer is yes, I don't do it."
Involvement: IFC Delegate Mason Swim Club, Kappa Sigma, East Peak Adventure Sports, Resident Student Association, Invisible Children, Mason Makos Swim Team Coach, and Emerging Leaders

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Jinhyuk (Joseph) Kim
Senior
Major: Finance
Favorite Quote: "You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once."
Involvement: FMA, Beta Alpha Psi, Emerging Leaders, and George Mason Securities Club

Amir Edjlali
Senior:
Major: Management Information Systems
Favorite Quote: "I think therefore I am" ~Descartes
Involvement: Delta Sigma Pi, Emerging Leaders, and Mason Business Coalition

Gladys Abreu
Freshman
Major: Integrative Studies
Minor: Pre-Physical Therapy
Favorite Quote: "I ne ver said to be like me, I said be like you and make a difference." ~ Marilyn Manson
Involvement: Emerging LEaders, Center for Leadership and Community Engagement

Steven Smith
Senior
Major: Communications
Minor: Business and Public Relations
Favorite Quote: "Remember the past, focus on the future, breathe in the present, and live life like it suits you." ~ Me
Involvement: Peer Empowerment Program, Firm Director for Premier Communications, Emerging Leaders, Black Student Alliance, and NAACP

Yanyan (Sally) Qu
Junior
Major: Management
Minor: Economics
Favorite Quote: "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." ~Confucious
Involvement: Delta Sigma Pi, Emerging Leaders, and Chinese Student Association

Sally

Ashleigh DeThomasis
Freshman
Major: Biology
Minor: Spanish
Favorite Quote: "Our greatests glory is never falling but rising when we fall." ~ Confucious
Involvement: Field Hockey Club and Emerging Leaders

Josh St. Louis
Freshman
Major: Government and International Politics
Minor: American Government
Favorite Quote: "As to the Presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it." ~ President Martin Van Buren
Involvement: College Republicans, Executive Board, Catholic Campus Ministry, Emerging Leaders, and Boy Scouts

Candice Kelemen
Freshman
Major: Integrative Studies
Favorite Quote: "If you can walk you can dance. And if you can talk you can sing." ~ Zimbabwe Proverb
Involvement: Alternative Sprng Break, Feminist Ninjas, NCC Diversity Committee, Pride Alliance, Pride Week Planning Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, Center for Leadership and Community Engagement, NCC Ambassador, NCBI, Safe Zone, Speak Out, and Emerging Leaders

Josh

Alyson Woodworth
Freshman
Favorite Quote: "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible isn't a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible isn't a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." ~Unknown
Involvement: Community Service, Emerging Leaders, Girl Scouts, Orphan Helpers, Mason Topics, On-campus job

Buchi Akpati
Freshman
Major: Biology and Pre-Medicine
Minor: Spanish
Favorite Quote: "I would reather be successful with enemies than unsuccessful with friends." "No pain, no gain", and "Human beings are like photographs, we are developed from negatives" ~Unknown
Involvement: African Student Association, Emerging Leaders, Math and Spanish Tutor, and volunteer at local churches

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Joseph Won
Junior
Major: Finance
Involvement: Church, Emerging Leaders, and Beta Alpha Psi

Jessica Pounde
Senior
Major: Accounting
Favorite Quote: "Always do right. It will gratify some, and astonish the rest." ~ Mark Twain
Involvement: Patriot Computers and Beta Alpha Psi

Accaiya Evans
Year: Sophomore/Junior
Major: Integrative Studies Concentration: Organizational Administration
Minor: Communications
Favorite Quote: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" -Hebrew 11:
Involvement: Fresh Annoiting International Christian Ministries, CT Assitant/DOIT, Emerging Leaders 2008, Greater Richmond Youth Athletic Association

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Minu Ramanan
Freshman
Major: Biology
Minor: Biotechnology
Favorite Quote: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." ~ John Locke
Involvement: University Scholars, Volunteer at Access

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