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Marissa Enfield ’12 – Senior Interviewer

Marissa is a senior from Boca Raton, Florida, dual majoring in psychology and legal studies. She spent fall semester of her junior year studying in Copenhagen, Denmark, living among Danish university students and volunteering at a preschool. During her time at Scripps, Marissa has worked as a tutor for high school students through Upward Bound, and as a barista at the Motley. Last semester she founded the 5C Abolitionist Movement, an on-campus organization dedicated to advocating and fundraising for victims of human trafficking, and she recently began writing articles for the Life column of the CMC Forum. Additionally, Marissa has enjoyed acting, directing, and writing for the 5C sketch comedy group, leading tours for the admission office, conducting psycholegal research with Professor Groscup, and playing goalkeeper for the CMS lacrosse team. She returns from a summer of analyzing discrimination case evidence as a legal and outreach intern at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Miami. One of Marissa’s favorite classes has been Child Development with Professor Sheila Walker, which allowed her to volunteer in a local preschool and conduct an observational study on sex segregation in children’s play. For her thesis, she will be designing an experiment that measures perceptions of ex-offenders and how stigma affects their re-entry.

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Kate Hutchins ’12 – Senior Interviewer

Kate is a senior from Washington, DC, dual majoring in French and European studies with a minor in dance. This past spring, Kate studied at the Sorbonne in Paris; when she wasn’t baking with her French host-sister or wandering around museums, she interned at Women’s Wear Daily, a daily fashion newspaper, and taught English at Ecole Estienne, a college for the arts. Over the summer, Kate volunteered in Nepal for five weeks, teaching kindergarten and helping to construct sustainable community buildings. Here at Scripps, Kate has loved getting involved with many of the clubs and activities the college has to offer. She has served as Logistics Coordinator for Challah for Hunger, an international non-profit started by a Scripps student that helps students bake and sell bread to raise money and awareness for victims of disaster and poverty. Kate has also been a Peer Mentor for incoming first-years in her dorm, volunteered on the Community Emergency Response Team, worked as Stage Manager for dance performances, driven vans for the Scripps College Academy, and even served as President of Babes and Blankets, a knitting club that creates projects to donate to local charities. This year, she is thrilled to serve as Campus Activities Chair for Scripps Associated Students. In her free time, she likes stopping by her mentees’ rooms to say “Hi,” eating fresh-baked challah, and drawing outside on sunny days.

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KC Mautner ’12 – Senior Interviewer

KC is a senior from Portland, Oregon, dual majoring in politics/international relations and Spanish. As part of her Spanish major, she studied abroad in Granada, Spain this past spring, where she took classes at the University of Granada, lived with a host-family, and traveled throughout Spain and Morocco. At Scripps, she has worked as editor-in-chief of voice, the Scripps student newspaper, as a Spanish tutor, and as a conversation class leader for intermediate Spanish classes. She also mentors through Uncommon Good, which pairs college students with low-income elementary and middle school students from the area; volunteers for Challah for Hunger; and serves as Clubs and Organizations Chair for Scripps Associated Students. She has spent the last two summers in Claremont, working with international students learning English. One of KC’s favorite classes at Scripps was Wheel Throwing, which started as a way to fulfill her Fine Arts requirement but has turned into a fun, nonacademic hobby. For her senior thesis, she plans to compare immigration laws in Spain and the United States, while analyzing the effects of immigration on the educational systems of both countries.

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Sarah Stringer ’12 – Senior Interviewer

Sarah is a senior from Palo Alto, California, double majoring in psychology and French. In the fall of her junior year, she studied in Paris; Sarah spent this summer back with her host-family, assisting her host-mother with her art, helping the family move houses, and traveling around the country with her new French friends and family. She lived in the French hall last spring, is active in the French club (and one time made over 400 crêpes during the 5-C International Festival), and tutors other students in French and psychology. During Sarah’s first two summers in college, she did research in psychology, first looking at cross-cultural experiences with home architecture, and then studying social cognitive neuroscience. This year, she is also the Lab Director of Scripps’ Adult Development lab and is co-President of Psi Chi, Scripps’ chapter of the international honors society in psychology. While it might seem that she is rather focused in these two academic domains, she revels in the interdisciplinary nature of Scripps, trying to fit in as many anthropology, African history, neuroscience, and literature courses as possible. Though Sarah has volunteered as a campus tour guide since her first year at Scripps, through her travels she was able to gain a greater perspective on how her home here at Scripps is truly beautiful— Sarah believes there is nothing better than exploring the physical spaces on campus, and enjoys organizing regular fountain-hopping study breaks, fruit-picking parties, candlelight dinners in the courtyards, and fireside poetry readings with friends.