Project MicroMundo

We’ve been inseparable friends and roommates for six years. 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 currently works for an economic, financial, and statistical consulting firm in Washington, DC. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland with a degree in economics and a minor in statistics. Ronnie is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and recipient of the 2010 Dillard Award, presented at UMD to the most outstanding graduating economics major in a class of almost 400.  She tangos and is a belly dance performer and instructor. Ronnie plans to pursue a graduate degree in economics, with a focus on international development.  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 is completing her first year of law school at George Washington University.

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