Project MicroMundo

* 1/19/2012 Note:  *
This page is being updated to cover what’s happened
between graduation in 2010 and now!

We are three friends who graduated from the University of Maryland in 2010. Though our backgrounds are very different, we all share a commitment to public service and a determination to learn more about the world.

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Ronnie Brodsky graduated summa cum laude with a degree in economics and a minor in statistics.  She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was the 2010 recipient of the Dillard Award, presented at UMD to the most outstanding graduating economics major. Ronnie tangos and is a member of Bella Quattro, a DC-area tribal fusion belly dance troupe. She currently works for an economic, financial, and statistical consulting firm in Washington, DC. Ronnie plans to pursue a graduate degree in developmental economics, with a focus on natural resource management.  She speaks English, French, Hebrew, Russian, and Spanish.

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Jessica Smith graduated magna cum laude with a degree in marketing and a minor in Spanish language, business and cultures.  She is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She currently works as part of the Analytics team at MarketBridge, a marketing consulting firm located in Bethesda, MD. In addition, she teaches a weekly adult ESL class through Language ETC, a non-profit group which provides English and literacy training to adult immigrants in the D.C. area.

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Stephanie Wolf graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English and a minor in rhetoric.  She received the 2010 Joyce Tayloe Horrell Award, given to the most academically distinguished graduating English major.  Stephanie has ridden horses for most of her life, and competed throughout high school and college.  She has accumulated classroom experience as a teaching assistant at UMD and as a Kaplan SAT prep instructor.  She served as the Chair of the University’s Student Honor Council, and plans to attend law school in the fall of 2011.

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The three of us have been friends and roommates for four years.  We’ve survived eight rounds of exams, visited five different countries, and choked down two years of cafeteria food.  We’ve sloshed through dorm room floods, waged war with an army of cockroaches, and handled a handyman with a bungee cord for a belt (it could’ve done a better job…) and a tendency to peer into windows.  Maybe it wasn’t the stuff of action movies, but we think college has helped to prepare us for this next adventure.  We’re looking forward to all of the challenges and characters that we’ll meet on this trip, and we’re especially excited to be able to share them with you.