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Release date: Feb. 14, 2007 Emory Names 2007 Humanitarian Award Winners
Students are nominated for the Humanitarian Award by peers and faculty members for: demonstrating honesty, integrity, responsibility and a sense of community; for special acts of courage and friendship; and for committing an unusual amount of time and energy in service to others. Recipients were presented with a plaque and a gift certificate to the Emory bookstore at a recent ceremony on campus. • Lindsey Baker is co-director of Volunteer Emory, one of the university's largest and most active student organizations which coordinates service opportunities for the Emory community. Described by her nominators as exceptionally compassionate and socially responsible, Baker has participated in and led several service trips to the Metro Juvenile Detention Center, Refugee Family Services and a local Boys and Girls Club. This past fall, Baker was instrumental in coordinating the Atlanta and Emory sites for Emory Cares International Service Day, the signature service project of the Emory Alumni Association. The event drew nearly 400 students and alumni who worked on projects throughout metro-Atlanta. In addition to her extensive work with Volunteer Emory, she has volunteered weekly at Egleston Children's Hospital since her freshman year and participated in trips to Louisiana to help neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Katrina. She is a double-major in psychology and sociology from Tucson, Ariz.
• Jamie Lawler is a 10-time NCAA All-American and captain of the Emory women's varsity swim team, currently the defending NCAA Div. III national champions. Despite the rigorous training schedule her position demands, Lawler has been deeply committed to her volunteer work with My House, a center for abused infants and toddlers in Atlanta, for the past three years. Lawler, whose nominators cited her compassion, support and leadership with both her teammates and others, also coaches a Special Olympics swim team at Emory. She is a psychology major from Naperville, Ill. • Mary C. Parker has served as co-chair of the university's Multicultural Council for the past two years and is noted for her humble and courageous leadership on diversity and humanitarian issues. She is founder of the Freshman Crossroads Retreat, a diversity initiative for first-year students and also serves as a MORE (Multicultural Outreach and Resources at Emory) mentor to younger students at the university. She is a member of the President's Commission on Race and Ethnicity and serves as a student leader in Emory's Transforming Community Project, a five-year examination of the history of race at Emory. She also has done Hurricane Katrina-related relief work in Gulfport, Miss., and St. Bernard Parish and New Orleans, La. Parker is a sociology major from Stone Mountain, Ga. • Haley Rosengarten worked tirelessly this past year as co-president of Emory Hillel to bring the AIDS Quilt to Emory, resulting in the country's largest display of the quilt this past World AIDS Day Dec. 1. During the "Quilt on the Quad" event, Rosengarten dedicated a panel to her father who died of AIDS when she was in high school. She fearlessly speaks out about the importance of HIV/AIDS education and prevention and single-handedly raised $8,000 for the Names Project, the nonprofit organization that oversees the quilt. In addition to other volunteer work, Rosengarten has served as an orientation leader and captain for new students. She is an American Studies major from Greenwich, Conn. • Elizabeth Sholtys is founder and director of the Ashraya Initiative for Children (AIC), a nonprofit organization for street children in Pune, India, she started as a freshman. Under her leadership, AIC now has a home in India that houses nine children, providing them with medical care, family support and education. In addition to the home, the AIC provides outreach to numerous street children. Through her work, AIC now has student branches in five countries that provide support for the home and programs. Sholtys also has been an advocate for human rights causes at Emory, and has partnered with Human Rights Week organizers, the Emory Student Activists Coalition and Amnesty International to sponsor educational programs for Emory and the Atlanta community. Sholtys is an anthropology major from Ithaca, N.Y.
• Crystal Bailey has had a longtime commitment to international humanitarian work, working and living with underserved populations in Uganda, Kosovo, Australia and Papua, New Guinea. Bailey, a native of Brownburg, Ind., also earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from Emory, and she currently is a graduate student pursuing a dual degree in midwifery and public health as a Fuld Fellow at Emory. Bailey served on the board of the Emory International Student Nurses Association for several years, helping to raise awareness about global health. She has traveled several times to the Caribbean and Haiti to work with the poor. She has assisted with relief efforts in New Orleans, volunteered at Mercy Care, a clinic serving the homeless population in Atlanta, and has started a soap-making microenterprise with African refugee women. On the weekends, Bailey works as a nurse at Emory Crawford Long Hospital. ### Emory University is one of the nation's leading private research universities and a member of the Association of American Universities. Known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities, Emory is ranked as one of the country's top 20 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, the state's largest and most comprehensive health care system. Subscribe to News@Emory RSS feeds for automatic updates of the latest news at Emory. |
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