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Paige Welch

Spanish, BA

2019

Paige grew up in New Hampshire before she applied to and enrolled at Northeastern in order to pursue a B.A. in Spanish and a minor in Arabic. She’s a longtime lover of languages and desired a program that would allow her to both immerse herself in the study of the Spanish language and expand her cultural experiences. Here is her Northeastern story…

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Paige’s Path

Paige joined the NU History Association and gave two presentations, one on transcendentalism and another on the Iranian Revolution.

NU History Association
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Took emotionally challenging course CLTR 3715 “Violence and Human Rights in Latin America” with Prof Daniel Noemi Voionmaa.

Professor Daniel Noemi Voionmaa

Used her passion for history and Santería as certified tour guide, providing historical walking tours in Salem, MA on weekends.

Took advantage of co-op program to explore interests outside her major, working with the education director of the Walden Woods Project.

The Walden Woods Project

Second co-op was closer to home at Wentworth, where she worked in their corporate and foundation relations office in Spring 2017.

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For her final co-op, she worked for the Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez de la Naturaleza y el Hombre in Havana, Cuba.

Fundacíon Antonio Núñez Jiménez
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While in Cuba, she surveyed locals in Havana to study the connection between Santería and ecological conservation for her thesis.

“Through the Spanish program, I have had a chance to go to Argentina and see the tallest waterfall in the Western Hemisphere, while at the same time stepping on the famous pampa of the gauchos. I was able to immerse myself in a new culture, one that I had only studied in books. I mostly studied Argentine history, culture and literature while there. By going to another country I was able to better my Spanish and my understanding of much of the history in South America”

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Chinma Nnadozie-Okananwa

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  • Chinma’s long-held love of reading and writing, specifically poetry, led to her to decision to major in English for her undergraduate education.
  • In her first year, Chinma took Early African American Literature with Professor Nicole Aljoe. It was the first time she had a Black professor and the opportunity to share lived experiences in a new way.
  • Chinma took Contemporary Poetry with Professor Eunsong Kim which explored readings that Chinma still uses today. She learned how poetry and art can affect real change, like through the Black Arts Movement.
  • Chinma is co-president of Our Voices: Women of Color, which is run through the Social Justice Resource Center and the Center for Intercultural Engagement and allows her to facilitate vital conversations.
  • Through Our Voices: Women of Color, Chinma attended Northeastern’s EMPOWER conference for students of color in 2019, where she gave a presentation about intersectionality.
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Yasser Aponte

  • Yasser was in the Foundation Year program at Northeastern. The program was a rigorous deep dive into core subject classes that helped Yasser bridge the gap between the high school and college experiences.
  • Initially indecisive, Yasser’s interest in traveling and experience exploring different religious texts in high school led him to a double major in international affairs and religious studies.
  • Yasser took Issues in Cities and Suburbs with Professor Erin Graves in Fall 2018. As someone deeply invested in urban life, he found the course was an enlightening look at the problems endemic to cities.
  • Yasser’s first co-op was at the Boston Beer Company as a Program Operations and Event Assistant. He worked on inventory, public relations, directed brewery events, and maintained workspace organization.
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  • Cooper has been a PPE Peer Mentor, and he has also served as the PPE representative on the CSSH Student Advisory Council for three years.
  • Cooper spent much of the summer in 2019 in Hong Kong and Malaysia on dialogue, exploring challenges for coastal sustainability.
  • Cooper has had two co-ops, the first at Boston After School & Beyond, and the second at Dynasty Financial Partners, in New York City.
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