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Hello and welcome! We are members of LaGuardia Community College's Honors Student Advisory Committee (HSAC), the student arm of the college's Honors Program. Established in the Fall of 2010, HSAC is comprised of LaGuardia's Honors students who are committed to creating a community of talented, ambitious and highly-motivated individuals who seek intellectual challenge and the opportunity to serve our communities.

Prior to the establishment of HSAC, Honors students were already involved in creating various scholarly and service projects. In the Fall of 2008, Honors students organized an Honors Colloquium, and beginning in 2009, they began compiling transfer strategies for students who are aiming to get into selective 4-year colleges and programs. HSAC builds on the work of these Honors student-pioneers. In addition to establishing this website, HSAC programmed two recognition events, one networking event and one service project during its first year of establishment. You can read about 3 of these early activities here:

Fall 2010 Honors Recognition Event (go to page 6 for the article): Livewire

Spring 2011 Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention

Spring 2011 Honors Recognition Event

Since then, we have grown to be an active and visible force on campus, speaheading the Peer Transfer Initiative, developing a budding but vibrant Honors Alumni Advisory Committee, profiling the importance of civic engagement, making connections with freshmen, and working with our Honors professors to promote student resesearch opportunities. We have also participated in the annual conventions of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) and the Northeast Regional Honors Council (NRHC) as panel moderators, research paper presentors and fishbowl participants. One of our members also holds the elected position of 2012-2013 Student Representative on the NRHC Executive Board.

We are located in Honors House (M-222), which we view as a space for the community of talented and motivated LaGuardia students. We invite you to visit us and join in the work of building a vibrant community of peers who can support each other in navigating academic life, preparing for transfer and scholarship applications, and learning to use education to serve others. If you would like to be involved in HSAC projects, use the Contact Us page to tell us a little bit about yourself and how you would like to help!

Current HSAC Members

Beatriz Ramos

Josh Rotbert

Jacqueline Veliz

Xavier Medina

Carlos Galindo

Kimberly Mota

Daniel Rivera

Weily Lang

Marissa Hernandez

Renelle Pereira

Sara Mindana

Olivia Feal

Aleksandr Ruziyev

Edemir Castano

Steven Garcia

Erica Taveras

Maheem Welcome

Shayne Alleyne-Husbands

Ronald Moore

Edward Joseph

Mayra Ramales

Diriana Tejada

Nelson Delgado

HSAC ALUMNI

Miguel Ballardo

Maria Loo (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Omri Shafir (CUNY - Hunter College)

Beaudlaire Jeancharles

Darlene Perez (New York University)

Jonathan Simmonds (New York University)

Raven Gomez (Smith College)

Wai "Kat" Lam (Johns Hopkins University, Maryland)

Alexis Perez (Executive Member, 2012-2013; Georgetown)

Felisha Nieves (Executive Member, 2011-2013; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Tremaine Wright (Executive Member, 2011-2013; NYU)

Freda Raitelu (Executive Member, 2011-2013; 2012-2013 Northeast Regional Honors Council Executive

Board Member; 2012 NCHC Student of the Year; Smith College)

Michael Jefferson (Member, Spring 2013; Sarah Lawrence College)

Anthony Salcedo (Member, Spring 2013; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Ramon Rootharam (Executive Member, 2011-2013)

Matloatsie Violet Machethe (Member, Fall 2012; NYU)
Jacqueline Okwodu (Executive Member, 2012; Columbia)

Gilda Lucano (Member, 2012)

Connie Velasquez (Member, 2012-2013; NYU)

Raquel Delabarrera (Member, Fall 2012)

Rachael Spanos (Executive Member, 2012-2013)

Ebrima Touray (Member, Fall 2012)

Carla Clarke (Member, Fall 2012)
Matt Garron (Member, 2012-2013; Cornell)

Hjordy's Matos-Perez (Member, Fall 2013)

David Pan (Member, Fall 2013)

Bushra Abbasi (Member, Fall 2013)

Rogein Harripersad (Member, Fall 2013)

Vincente Sanchez-Venerio (Member, Fall 2013)

Rafael Tejada (Executive Member, 2010-2012; Sarah Lawrence College)

Harmonie Kobanghe (Executive Member, 2011-2012; Georgetown; Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate

Scholar)

Johnny Lee (Executive Member, 2011-2012; Columbia)

Gregory Smith (Member, Spring 2012; Sarah Lawrence College)

Adrienn Miklos (Member, Spring 2012; NYU)

Dionys Jimenez (Executive Member, 2011-2012; SUNY Binghamton)

Emanuelle Williams (Executive Member; 2011-2012)

Lei Huang (Member, 2011-2012; Columbia)

Kate Fay (Member, 2011-2012; NYU)

Sebastien Vertus (Member, 2011-2012; CUNY CCNY Skadden Arps Honors Program in Legal Studies)

Estefania Hernandez (Member, 2011-2012)

Kevin Magana (Executive Member, 2010-2011; Georgetown)
Alejandro Madi (Student Government Association Liaison, 2010-2011; CUNY John Jay)

Maria Acosta (Executive Member, 2010-2011; SUNY Binghamton)

Shireen Corbin (Member, Spring 2011; NYU)
Jonathan Flores (Executive Member, Spring 2011; CUNY CCNY Skadden Arps Honors Program in Legal

Studies)

Kiichiro Ishikawa (Executive Member, Fall 2010)
Robert Martinez (Executive Member, 2010-2011)
Lassina Ouattara (Executive Member, Fall 2010; Columbia)
Amanda Pearl (Member, Spring 2011)
Muhammad Sadiq (Member, Spring 2011)
Gino Tarabotto (Member, Fall 2011)
Kamil Walilko (Executive Member, Spring 2011)
Diana Youssef (Executive Member, 2010-2011; NYU)

Dr. Karlyn Koh
Honors Program Director
Professor of English
E103-V
kkoh@lagcc.cuny.edu; 718.482.5658

Dr. John Chaffee
Senior Honors Faculty Advisor
Professor of Philosophy
E202-A
chaffeejo@lagcc.cuny.edu; 718.482.5699

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Part-time Honors Program College Assistant:

Ms. Caitlin Burke
M222-E
cburke@lagcc.cuny.edu; 718.482.5922

Part-time Honors Program College Assistant:

Rafael Tejada
M222-D
ratejada@lagcc.cuny.edu; 718.482.5225

Current and Past Committee Members

HSAC Advisors

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