Category: Students

SOAN majors Ayanna Rose ’25 and Lexi Wallace ’26 presented their research at the regional Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows conference at Northwestern with fellow scholars Faridah Azeez ’25, Ambar Galaviz ’26, Zaria Kelly ’25, Natalia Ron-Lopez ’25, Jerry Shang ’26, Ellie Simon ’26, Sophia Ying ’26, and Hope Yu ’26.

SOAN major Bella Thomas ’25 was featured in the October 2024 Student Life Newsletter in the “Staff and Student Highlights” section for being a Student Wellness Advocate in the Office of Health Promotion. She is also a board member of the Black Student Alliance, Captain of the Varsity Women’s Basketball team, and President of the BIPOC Student-Athlete Collective.

SOAN majors Julianna Baldo ’25 and Grace Bassekle ’25 will present at the upcoming Upper Midwest Association of Campus Sustainability (UMACS) meeting at Macalester with colleagues Demetrius Blackmon Jimenez ’24, Nico Bolling ’27, Sadie DiCarlo ’25, Alex Dudnyk ’27, Lillian Fisher ’25, and Elena Prichard ’25. The presentation is titled “Carleton’s Students Take Climate Action” and will focus on student project activities engaging transportation, food emissions and food systems, energy tours, storytelling, and community science monitoring.

SOAN major Anna Frankel ’24 received second place in the 2024 Center for Global and Regional Studies (CGRS) Travel Writing Contest with “My Cat, Cloyd”

SOAN major and GWSS minor Moe Kojima ’24 presented before a national panel of adjudicators at the American College Dance Conference, held this year at St. Olaf, with the Carleton Semaphore Repertory Dance Company. The company performed in the adjudicated concert with works by guest artist Elayna Waxse and by senior dance major d’Auria. Kojima performed an original solo in the Informal Concert.

In her newest Admissions Blog post, Lexi Wallace ’26 explains why she wants to major in Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton.

SOAN major Cristina Camarillo ’23 was featured in the Carleton News for giving remarks during Commencement 2023. Camarillo delivered her commencement speech in both English and Spanish, focusing on her perspective as a first generation college student.

SOAN major Amber Lozoya ’23, who was among the students selected for a 2023-24 Weitz Fellowship, was featured in a Carleton News article for traveling to Nebraska, along with other current fellows, to meet with current and former fellows, the Weitz family, and members of the Career Center as an introduction to the program and a welcome to Omaha and Lincoln.

SOAN major and Archeology minor Kalju Maegi ’23 was featured in a Carleton news article called “Focus on community guides Carleton summer research trip to Peru” about Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Sarah Kennedy’s month-long trip to Puno, Peru with five students. Maegi and the other students conducted archaeological and anthropological fieldwork in Peru by studying heavy metal poisoning in soil and interacting with the community affected by it.

SOAN major Maddie Fry ’22 was featured in Comps Insider for their senior comps project entitled “Bringing a Friend Along,” which explores philanthropy and community life in Northfield.