Specialty Teams 2008-2009

Team

National Team members work with members of the Managing Committee, assisting with research, material development, and communicating with chapters.

**Programming Team * Education Team * Advocacy Team * Media Team**

Programming Team
	Samantha Stiles - National Conference Coordinator UNC Chapel Hill, 2009 A senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Samantha is an international studies major, with a focus on politics, nation-states, and social movements in Africa. She started working with STAND through the Teach Against Genocide campaign, by researching states' genocide education requirements, and she spent this past summer interning with STAND at the Genocide Intervention Network. An interesting fact about Samantha is that she is addicted to frozen fruit and mints. Back to top.
	Lindsey Woolf - STANDfast Coordinator George Washington University, 2009 Originally from Houston, TX, Lindsey is a senior at George Washington University in Washington, DC studying International Affairs with a focus in African Studies. In addition to planning STANDFast, Lindsey is also an intern at the Genocide Intervention Network. Lindsey spent the fall of her junior year studying abroad in Dakar, Senegal, and following graduation, hopes to return to Sub-Saharan Africa to work doing international humanitarian aid and development. Lindsey dedicates her passion for activism to her mother, who has always taught her to follow her heart and to fight for what she knows is right. Back to top.
	Brittany Libra - Chapter Retreat Coordinator University of Minnesota, 2011 Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Brittany is a sophomore at the University of Minnesota where she is studying political science, Spanish, and global studies with an emphasis on Latin America and Governance, Peace and Justice. She began her anti-genocide efforts her freshman year by volunteering for Genocide Intervention Network—Minnesota. She is now a Chapter Retreat Coordinator and working to create the 2009 Chapter Retreats in the West Coast, Great Plains and Southwest regions. Back to top.
	Anna Siegel - Chapter Retreat Coordinator University of Pittsburg, 2010 Anna Siegel is originally from Columbia, MD. She is currently a junior at the University of Pittsburgh where she is majoring in Anthropology, Politics and Philosophy and pursuing a minor in French. She first became involved with anti-genocide advocacy in high school. She has served as the Treasurer and Vice President of her STAND chapter at Pitt. In 2007, she interned for GI-Net for the summer. When she is not tending to STAND matters, Anna can be found pedalling through Pittsburgh on her adored sea-foam green bike or making twenty-ingredient salads. Back to top.
Education Team
	Christina MacKenzie - Sudan Coordinator Northern Illinois University, 2010 Christina is a junior at NIU, in the cornfields of Illinois, majoring in history and double minoring in political science and German. She got involved with the anti-genocide movement in 2008 when her professor invited her to hear Samantha Power speak. Christina left the event fired up and ready to act, co-founding her university’s STAND chapter with a few other dedicated students. She firmly believes the best way to end genocide is to educate people on all genocides, past and present, their world wide repercussions and to impress upon others that a peoples’ political will can halt atrocities. Her other interests include ping pong, travelling, EastEnders and spoiling her hamster, Fitzwilliam. Back to top.
	Jihae Lee - Congo Coordinator Harvard University, 2011 Jihae is a Southern girl at heart, having grown up in Tallahassee, FL and now living in Nashville, TN. She is currently a sophomore at Harvard, where she majors in Social Studies and Film. She began her anti-genocide activism and human rights work with the Harvard Darfur Action Group and the Harvard College Human Rights Advocates. Jihae also loves to DJ, make films, and do anything related to music. Back to top.
	Will Cragin - Emerging Conflicts Coordinator Bio and Picture coming soon. Back to top.
	Prem Jayantan - Sri Lanka Coordinator Bio and Picture coming soon. Back to top.
	Joshua Groll - Burma Coordinator UNC Wilmington, 2011 Joshua Groll is a Sophomore at University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is a student of American History and Political Science and serves as STAND's Burma Education Coordinator. He is also Co-President of the UNCW STAND Chapter and is Advocacy Director of the North Carolina Teach Against Genocide Campaign. Back to top.
Advocacy Team
	Dan Carr - Great Lakes Bio and Picture coming soon. Back to top.
	David Willner - Northeast, Southeast Bio and Picture coming soon. Back to top.
	Will McKeen - Southwest, Great Plains Bio and Picture coming soon. Back to top.
	Maria Sebastian - Mid-Atlantic Bio and Picture coming soon. Back to top.
	Samantha Johnston - West Coast UC Berkeley, 2009 Sam is STAND’s West Coast RAC. Originally from Santa Monica, CA, she is now a senior at UC Berkeley majoring in Conservation and Resource Studies. Sam walked into a Berkeley STAND meeting her sophomore year, saw how brilliant and enthusiastic her STAND cohorts are, and has been hooked ever since. When she’s not engaging her elected officials, Sam likes playing guitar and making her amazing beet salad recipe. Back to top.
Media Team
	Sejal Jhaveri - Northeast Brown University, 2009 Sejal Jhaveri is a senior at Brown studying International Relations and Public Policy. She is originally from West Orange and started working with Brown's Darfur Action Network her sophomore year. This is her second year as a Regional Media Coordinator. She loves soccer and recently returned from a semester abroad in Barcelona, Spain.
	Libby Goldstein - West Coast Hampshire College, 2013 Libby's position in STAND, as well as all that this movement entails, is of great importance to her as her grandparents were refugees of a Yemeni genocide. A Los Angeles native, she works with chapters on the West Coast to maximize the awareness of their efforts through the media. She is defering Hampshire College a year to travel the world but will continue her activist efforts throughout. When she returns, she will study Human Rights and Creative Writing. She especially likes her dog, Allan Ball, Ghandi, tea and manatees.
	Monique Bird - Southwest University of North Texas Monique has been a Regional Media Coordinator since 2007. She is primarily responsible for assisting chapters in getting media attention for their events and/or chapter; however, she will do just about anything to help a chapter communicate with their communities and schools. No genocide-related question is too great, and if she doesn't know the answer, she'll find it. Monique is a graduate student at the University of North Texas, where she is majoring in broadcast journalism. She hopes to someday use her voice as a reporter to educate and inform others about issues that might otherwise go unnoticed. Outside of STAND, she loves to play games.
	Kaden Trifilio - Mid-Atlantic George Washington University, 2011 Kaden is a sophomore at the George Washington University, studying anthropology and journalism. He became involved with STAND his freshman year. Since then, anti-genocide activism has become one of his passions, and he was arrested with 17 fellow STAND members at the April 2008 protest outside the White House. In addition to activism, he greatly enjoys peanut butter.