During Ashley's time at Vanderbilt, she participated in various service organizations, ranging from tutoring programs with COPC to VandyCares. She also spent her senior year interning with the American Red Cross, assisting the finance division during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Rita.

During her time at Vanderbilt, Ali focused her community engagement on serving women, children, and families in low-income communities.

Natalie is currently a member of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine's Class of 2009.

During his undergraduate career, Elliot participated in a wide array of service activities. Much of his service was a reflection of his passion for working with youth and his interest in the public interest legal sector. He worked extensively with the youth of East Nashville to try to create change in individual lives.

I am excited to join the Ingram Scholars after being involved in leadership positions in multiple service organizations in high school including Leader's Club, Tri-Hi-Y, and Leo Club. I know that Vanderbilt as well as the Nashville community offer great opportunities for me to continue my service.

Marina Nicolaidis graduated in 2005 and is currently working at Credit Suisse in New York. During her time at Vanderbilt, Marina volunteered at the Ronald McDonald House and worked with underprivileged youth through the Vanderbuddies tutoring program. During her senior year she also interned at a girls' group home through Youth Villages.

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Lauren Wagman graduated from Vanderbilt in 2005. She is currently living in Manhattan Beach and working for the POSSE Foundation. Los Angelos. POSSE identifies, recruits, and trains outstanding youth leaders from urban public high schools as mutilcutural teams called "posses."

At Vanderbilt, Sarah was interested in working with at-risk youth, women and faith-based programs. Sarah was president of the Vanderbilt Prison Project her freshmen year and also volunteered with youth mentoring and tutoring through the Martha O'Bryan Center.

During her time at Vanderbilt University, Mimi was active in a number of Vanderbilt and Nashville service organizations. Her most notable service accomplishments include serving as Co-Chairperson of Vanderbilt's Alternative Spring Break organization, as a member of Magdalene's board of directors, and as an intern with the Nashville GuardianAd Litempublic defender.

As a senior Ingram Scholar, I am actively pursuing my goal of achieving academic success as a Communication Studies major, honing my leadership skills while serving others, and becoming a more passionate person.

Michelle Martin has been working with teen and adolescent cancer patients for the past four years and will continue to do so in the Vanderbilt community.

While at Vanderbilt, Amber directed Pencil Project, a child advocacy program that brought everything from tutoring services to dance classes to some of Nashville's most impoverished children. She was also involved with Junior Achievement of Middle TN, Hike for HIV, and Saddle Up!, a therapeutic riding stable.

While at Vanderbilt, Kelley focused many of her service interests in working with children with disabilities. She partnered with a local therapeutic horseback riding center for children with disabilities (Saddle Up!) to form a Vanderbilt Chapter of volunteers to serve together in this organization.

Joe's main focus at Vanderbilt was on the prison system, and he coordinated a program (under the Vanderbilt Prison Project umbrella) which paired students with inmates at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institute. This program allowed inmates of all criminal background an opportunity to participate in a vast array of rehabilitative programs involving literature, music, writing and other creative outlets.

The focus of Brian's service work at Vanderbilt centered on poverty issues. He led the student service organization Second Helpings, a group that provided students the opportunity to volunteer at local homeless shelters, food banks, and soup kitchens.

At Vanderbilt, Katherine volunteered with children and the arts, a natural fit for an Art History major, who received department honors and awards, including the Cooley Award for the graduate with the highest GPA.

I graduated from Vanderbilt in 2003 with a double major in Human and Organizational Development and Child Development. While at Vanderbilt, I dedicated my time to Alternative Spring Break, a student-run organization, that sends students across the country for service work during spring break.

During her Vanderbilt undergraduate years Kate focused her efforts on the Best Buddies program, a nonprofit organization that pairs Vanderbilt students with individuals in the Nashville community that have intellectual disabilities. In addition she volunteered with several other organizations, including Alternative Spring Break, the Environmental Affairs Committee, and the Eating Disorders Awareness Task Force.

Soha has created an interdisciplinary major within the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and child development and is a math minor. She is looking forward to medical school with a focus on pediatrics. For the past 7 years, she has been working with the American Red Cross in establishing youth councils across the country and is continuing her youth involvement through the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital and SGA.