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Meet the Team

As evidenced above, we love to have fun and are certainly a tight knit group. Get to know us more personally below!

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                    Sydney Kletter is a junior Health Sciences major with a concentration in Global and                                         Comparative Public Health from Minneapolis, MN. She plans to join the Peace Corps                                     upon graduation. Her favorite memory was seeing the Kikawanda Health Center                                             and all the good things it does for the community. ​

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                     Margo Wohlfeil is a sophomore BCMB/Chemistry double major. Her favorite                                                    part of the trip was  experiencing every aspect of a culture so completely                                                          different than her own. Inspired by all the amazing people she met, she was                                                      challenged to change the world, no matter how small the difference. 

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                       Hayley LeBlanc is a junior Neuroscience and Psychology double Major. She has                                                traveled to Uganda twice. She is currently working on finding a sustainable water                                              filtration system for the Sure Prospects Institute. Her favorite memory in Uganda                                              was seeing zebra cross the road in front of her safari van.

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             Lauren Riley is a junior Marketing & International Business Double Major from                                          Denver,Colorado. Her favorite memory of Uganda is going on safari and being woken up by                    hippos and receiving her local name, "Namutebi" which means queen. She hopes to publish a                book telling the stories of those who have been wrongly imprisoned in Uganda. 

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            Karli Kisch is a junior Psychology major, Biology minor from Eagan, Minnesota. Her                                               favorite memories from the trip are the day spent with the kids at Sure Prospects                                                 school, and seeing the Kikandwa Health Clinic opening. She is currently involved with                                           the Days for Girls Project and has recently begun helping with water project. 

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              Megan Lindmark is a junior Environmental Science major with a Global Comparative                                               Health Concentration from Stilwell, Kansas. She first traveled to Uganda in the                                                         summer of 2014 and has since returned in August of 2015 to do further research on                                               sustainable water systems.

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             ​Ali Hassan is a senior Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology major from Waukee,                                                  Iowa. His favorite memories from the trip were sharing laughter and love with the                                                  Ugandan children at Sure Prospects and Kikandwa and walking amongst the giraffes on the safari.​

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      Mollie Cooper is a junior Economics and Business Management major from Littleton, Colorado. She               went to Uganda on the Summer 2104 trip. Her favorite memory of the trip was playing with the children         at Sure Prospects.
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​      Aaron Feldman is a junior Political Science and Data Analytics major from Clarendon                                         Hills, Illinois. His favorite memory was scoring two soccer goals against the inmates                                           at the Luzira prison. 

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          Daniel Creese is a junior majoring in Finance from Boston, MA who went to Uganda in the summer of                 2014. He is excited to be in the sustainable development course at Drake to continue to help make a                   sustainable difference for Uganda.

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      Morgan Dezenski is a senior Marketing and Public Relations major from Eden Prairie, Minnesota.                   Morgan went to Uganda in the summer of 2014. Her favorite experiences of the trip were meeting all of         the MUBS students, going to Sure Prospects, Kikandwa Health Center and the safari.

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        Melissa Snavely is an Accounting and Finance double major from La Farge, Wisconsin. Her favorite                 memories from the trip to Uganda where from dancing with the children at the opening of the health               clinic, spending time at Sure Prospects, and watching the sun rise in Jinja over the White Nile River.

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             Graham is a philosophy and biology double major from Aurora, IL. His favorite memories from Uganda                are getting the opportunity to play a soccer match in Luzira Prison and meeting his fiance, Jess, while in              country. Graham hopes to follow in the footsteps of past students and continue work on building the                    health center in Kikandwa.

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          Erin Sawasky is a sophomore Actuarial Science and Finance Major from Milwaukee, WI.  She went to                 Uganda on the 2015 summer trip. Her favorite memory of the trip was distributing teddy bears to                       children at TASO (The AIDS Support Organization) because she got to see the big impact that small acts           of kindness can have.

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              Ed Kakenmaster is a Junior accounting/finance major with an 
Insurance concentration from Libertyville,               Illinois.  Ed traveled to Uganda following his freshman year in May of 2014.  Ed particularly enjoyed                         learning about, and seeing first hand, the role entrepreneurship plays in the Ugandan economy.

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             Chintan Barot is a student pharmacist from Schaumburg, IL. His favorite memory of the trip was                            shadowing a local physician and learning about pharmaceutical care in Uganda. 

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           Lisa Feldmann from Milwaukee, WI is in her first year of the PharmD program and has a psychology                    minor. Her favorite memory of Uganda was doing research on supplying women and girls in Kikandwa                Village with reusable sanitary supplies. She also enjoyed teaching a grammar lesson to children at Sure              Prospects. 

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