Rhianna Hughes

  • Position: President
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Biology
  • Minor: Art History
  • Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI
  • Quote: Remember what Bilbo used to say: It is a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you do not keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Chris Plano

  • Position: Leader
  • Year: Junior
  • Major: Environmental Science
  • Minor: Political Science
  • Hometown: Towson, MD (just north of Baltimore City)
  • Quote: Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emily Bacheller

  • Position: Treasurer
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: English
  • Minors: Spanish and International Development
  • Quote: “lets go play outside!”

Lauren Whaley

  • Position: Leader
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: International Studies
  • Minor: Chinese
  • Hometown: Austin, TX
  • Quote: If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
   

Cedric Gamble

  • Position: Trip Leader
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Environmental Science
  • Minor: English
  • Hometown: State College, PA
  • Quote: “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”

Ellen Chamberlin

  • Position: Leader
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Geology
  • Minor: French
  • Hometown: Detroit, MI

John Stewart

  • Position: Secretary
  • Year: Senior
  • Major: Geology
  • Minor: Psychology
  • Hometown: Warren, PA
  • Quote: “Can you get an STD from a polar bear?”
 

Ben Hedin

  • Position: Trip Leader
  • Year: Junior
  • Major: Environmental Science
  • Minor: Psychology
  • Quote: “Work hard, play hard”

Nick Christensen

  • Position: Webmaster
  • Year: Sophomore
  • Major: English
  • Minor: Latin American Studies
  • Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

Max Balakoff

  • Position: Trip Leader
  • Year: Sophomore
  • Major: Environmental Science
  • Minor: Latin American/Caribbean Studies
  • Hometown: Hermitage, PA
  • Quote: “The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.”  -Edward Abbey

Brian Anderson

  • Position: Trip Leader
  • Year: Sophomore
  • Major: Environmental Studies
  • Hometown: Hopkinton, MA
  • Quote: “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out til sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”  -John Muir
 

Jordan Abbott

  • Position: Gear Manager
  • Year: Junior
  • Major: Environmental Studies
  • Minor: Geology
  • Hometown: Fredonia, NY
  • Quote:

Sandra Wilson

  • Position: Trip Leader
  • Year: Sophomore
  • Major: Studio Art
  • Minor: Spanish and Latin American Studies
  • Hometown: Rockville, MD
  • Quote: “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties” – Eric Fromm

Liz Belz

  • Position: Trip Leader
  • Year: Sophomore
  • Major: Nueroscience
  • Minor: Music Performance
  • Hometown:
  • Quote:

“Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light and not our darkness that most frightens us.” -Marianne Williamson