My name is Jenna Scott. I am going to be a junior at Bowdoin College which is in Brunswick and I am from Saco, Maine. What motivated you to apply? So I’ve always had an interest in government politics and always loved American history, especially the Revolutionary War, which was the founding of our government […]
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My name is Falecia Dupont. I am from Kennebec Valley Community College. I live in Jefferson Maine. I have lived in Jefferson, Maine my whole life. I am studying nursing. I will be attending the University of Maine at Augusta this fall. What motivated you to apply? I saw an email from the school, because […]
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My name is Aliya Uteuova. I did Maine NEW Leadership in May of 2016. I am a political science and journalist major and I am a third-year student at UMaine. I was born is Kazakhstan and I came to UMaine to pursue my bachelor’s degree three years ago in political science and journalism. So, in […]
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My name is Abby Bennett and I am a junior studying financial economics. I participated in the NEW Leadership program in 2016. We did a lot of different things. We listened to panels in the State House after a tour of the State House. We had a networking reception with some alumni from the program […]
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My name is Emily Illingworth. I am a biochemistry major and I am a senior at UMaine right now and I was in the leadership program three summers ago. I was really nervous because I didn’t realize that there was a place for me in…I understood that there was a place for me in leadership […]
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Music in the background “Girl on Fire” by Alicia Keys. Lyrics provided at the end of the transcript. Mary Cathcart: “Welcome to the very first Maine NEW Leadership institute.” Amy Fried: “On the other side you have a real impact from having had a period now of, really decades now, of social change, emanating from […]
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My name is Donna Kierstead Thornton. I graduated from the University of Maine with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in public administration and I was a keynote speaker at the NEW Leadership conference in May of 2015. I am currently the vice president for alumni relations, annual giving, and communications at Rutgers University. The NEW […]
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