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Text Box: Anyone who accompanied Felicia Conde to Albany last spring as she spoke advocating for CSTEP would agree that she is clearly a person who thinks before she speaks and a person who speaks well. Those are among the finest qualities of a lawyer, and that is part of her plan for the future. “I want to practice constitutional law and/or international law,” she says. She also points out that someday she’d like to be a Supreme Court judge.

Text Box: A history major from nearby Clayton, NY, Felicia spent a good part of her summer in Trenton, NJ, doing an internship in a judicial office where she was able to sit in on some cases and gain experience in the field. She will be applying to law schools this fall. Felicia’s favorite professor is Liz Regosin. She appreciates Liz’s ability to teach in an informal way. Trips to Montreal and Ottawa and hikes in the Adirondacks as well as the opportunity to

Text Box: go canoeing for the first time are experiences she has enjoyed while attending SLU. A Presidential Diversity Scholar and former Leadership Academy member, Felicia has been active with the Black Women’s Resident, the Black Student Union, the annual Soul Food Dinner, the Diversity Coalition, and the Black Cultural Center. Her advice to fellow students is to “take full advantage of everything. Follow your dreams because you only have four years of undergrad.”

Text Box: Blaine Bettinger (CSTEP ‘98) emailed recently about his graduate study at SUNY Upstate Medical School in Syracuse. He’s thinking of going to law school after he finishes his Ph. D. to pursue a career in Intellectual Property. Sara Morrison (CSTEP ‘00) spent the summer as a

Text Box: A brief visit late this summer with Pedro Tejada (CSTEP ‘03) found him preparing to teach math at the Bronx Leadership Academy of Science and Math in NYC. Pedro has deferred his graduate school plans for a while and studied this summer as part of a NYC Teaching Fellowship.

Text Box: teacher for the Clarkson McNair Program. Sara is a grad student at UVM. pssst—Blaine, Pedro and Sara were also McNair Scholars at Clarkson University during their time here. Please welcome sophomore Randy Olivo as a new CSTEP Group Leader. Randy joins seniors Shirley Obioha and Toyin Showole as group leaders.

Text Box: ance of Northern NY and the Black Student Union, as well as a cook and coordinator for the popular Annual Soul Food Dinner, Prisca is a Presidential Diversity Scholar and a current Admission Management Assistant. Fluent in French and happy for visits to nearby Canadian cities, Prisca’s plan is to get a Masters in Child/ Developmental Psychology. She clearly wants to be sure travel is in the picture too. Prisca is a first generation

Text Box: American born to African parents. Her a mother is from Cameroon and her father is from Senegal. She has two younger sisters. Proficient at computers due to a set of summer jobs with Hewlett Packard and the U.S. Senate, her words of wisdom are as follows: “Take what you learn here at SLU seriously. Don’t ever think that what you’re learning is worthless and unnecessary. Everything you learn ties into life’s experiences to some degree.”

Text Box: Seated on the steps of the Black Women’s Residence on a clear autumn afternoon, Prisca Fall seems relaxed with her environment – despite the fact that she is many hours away from her Washington, D.C., home. A psychology major, anthropology minor and McNair Scholar, Prisca’s currently doing research on placebos under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas Greene. The Black Cultural Center treasurer for two years, a member of Multicultural Alli

Text Box: The McNair/CSTEP Resource Center located in 171 F Whitman Hall is now equipped with two computers, a color printer, a scanner, a slide scanner, a campus phone and an electric typewriter. It is for student use, so take advantage of the opportunity.

WASSup?

Felicia Conde

Prisca Fall