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Geer, Rebeka
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Mallory Grebel

Mallory Grebel

Since coming to UGA, Mallory Grebel has found many opportunities for service and leadership. During last year, she was the Vice President of the Student Government Association, and in this role she led the statewide student campaign against budget cuts to the University System of Georgia. She helped circulate a petition to show state lawmakers that a mid-year tuition hike was not a good idea. She also recently served as a co-emcee for the kick-off for the Archway to Excellence…

Katie Griffith

Katie Griffith

Honors student Katie Griffith has a passion for helping others. She received a Courts Scholarship last summer and traveled to Nicaragua to work in a high school on behalf of the Foundation for Sustainable Development. She also collected qualitative research data while she was there to conduct a linguistical analysis of Nicaraguan Spanish for her CURO Summer Research Fellowship. She plans to graduate next year with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree, and then she wants to travel to…

Henry (Hank) Ryle Clay

Henry (Hank) Clay

Hank Clay works for change. He has been awarded the Bachelor of Social Work program’s Student of the Year Award and was awarded the 2007 Athens Rotary Club Rotaract Student Service Award. He graduated with a dual major from UGA as an undergraduate and is now pursuing master’s degrees in social work and public administration. He is an outstanding leader and go-getter, always willing to help out. He is committed to social work, his education and the betterment of humankind.…

Katherine Adams

Katherine Adams

Doctoral student Katherine Rose Adams does not let anything slow her down. She works full-time as the program coordinator in the School of Social Work’s M.S.W. program. She just finished her master’s degree in human resources and organizational development in UGA’s College of Education, and she is now starting her Ph.D. in adult education. As an undergraduate at UGA, she helped organize Relay for Life and Dance Marathon events to raise money for Children’s Health Care of Atlanta and for…

Julianna Koksarova

Julianna Koksarova

International student Julianna Koksarova worked in nonprofit organizations for three years before she decided to pursue more education in the field. When she found there were no programs offered in her homeland, Latvia, she started looking elsewhere. Out of the nine existing programs in the world that offer the Management of Nonprofit Organizations major, and UGA was at the top of the list. She applied to UGA’s master’s of nonprofit management program without even visiting the university. When she was…

Kang Byungdeok

Byungdeok Kang

Doctoral student Byungdeok Kang came to the United States thinking he would come and get a great education, then he would take his expertise home to South Korea and help people in his home country. He did research and wrote reports about parenting and children. He has studied risk factors for drug use and suicide. He knows about issues related to the workforce and economics related to childcare in Georgia…and he is the father of two daughters. As he has…