Heller Working Groups and Student Associations

Heller students pursue their interests through a wide variety of Student Associations and Working Groups, composed of faculty, students and staff members of the Heller community who organize themselves around a common interest. In mid September there will be a Working Group Fair in the Zinner Forum during lunch time when representatives from each Working Group will be on hand to answer questions. Listed below are the Working Groups that were active in 2009-2010. There are many opportunities for new students to step into leadership roles. If you would like to learn more before the Fair, feel free to contact the person listed. If you are interested in forming a new Working Group, contact Mary Brooks at maryeliz@brandeis.edu.

Brandeis University Africa Forum (BUAF)
Faculty Advisor: Susan Holcombe (shholc@brandeis.edu)

Community Based Participatory Action Research Working Group
Faculty leader: Tom Mackie (tmackie@brandeis.edu)
Student Leader: Sara Plachta-Elliot (selliott@brandeis.edu)

Education and Development Working Group
Faculty Advisor: Marion Howard (mwhoward@brandeis.edu)

Food Studies Working Group

Heller Cultural Dinners
Staff Leaders: Mary Brooks (maryeliz@brandeis.edu), Masoud Juya (masoud@brandeis.edu)

HellerSAVE Working Group on Sustainability
Faculty Advisor: Eric Olson (eolson@brandeis.edu)
Staff Leaders: Lanni Isenberg (lanni@brandeis.edu), Elizabeth Merrick (merrick@brandeis.edu)

HIV/AIDS Study Group
Faculty Advisor: Joan Kaufman (kaufmanj@brandeis.edu)
Student Leader: Elizabeth Glaser (eglaser@brandeis.edu)

Inequalities Working Group
Faculty Advisor: Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson (ljeffers@brandeis.edu)

Informal Working Group on Renewable Energy

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School
Student Leader: Jonah Borrelli (jborrell@brandeis.edu)

Latin America and the Caribbean Development
Faculty Advisor: Cristina Espinosa (esponosa@brandeis.edu)

MBA Student Association
Student Leaders: Nate Tiller (ntiller@brandeis.edu)

Net Impact and Social Entrepreneurship Working Group
Student Leaders: Laura Richane (lrichane@brandeis.edu), Lindsey Oberoi (loberoi@brandeis.edu), Anna Perlmutter (annaperl@brandeis.edu), and Jessica Ketchen (jketchen@brandeis.edu)

The Sillerman Prize for Philanthropy
Staff Leader: Claudia Jacobs (cjacobs@brandeis.edu)

Working Group on Gender
Faculty Advisor: Kelley Ready (kready@brandeis.edu)

Working Group on Military Health
Staff Leader: Mary Jo Larsen (larson@brandeis.edu)

Working Group on Social Justice and Social Policy in the LGBTQ Movement
and Heller Queer Student Association (HQSA)
Faculty Advisor: Susan Curnan (curnan@brandeis.edu)
Student Leader: James Miller (jmm6002@brandeis.edu)