As a freshman, Nick and his brother conducted a research trip in Panama and Nicaragua to explore how the proposed construction of the Nicaragua Canal would have impacted local communities. Nick spent the summer after his freshman year volunteering at NewView Oklahoma, an organization that empowers blind and vision-impaired individuals to achieve their maximum potential through the Center for Social Concern's Summer Service Learning Program (SSLP). He has received grants through the Nanovic Institute for European Studies to conduct two independent research trips on the subject of refugees and migration. The first was to examine how governments, non-profits, and the private sector were receiving and integrating refugees in different European countries in the summer of 2016. He later conducted a second research trip in Finland to analyze the effectiveness of a startup which utilizes blockchain to provide digital identity and financial inclusion to asylum seekers. 

On campus, Nick served as a financial literacy mentor and has worked on multiple projects for Unleashed, Notre Dame's impact investing club, to analyze and recommend startups with positive social impacts to venture capital funds. During his Senior year, he joined Notre Dame’s Boxing Club and competed in the Bengal Bouts tournament.

Nick spent summer 2017 as a management consulting intern in the Financial Effectiveness group for Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) in Chicago, IL. He will be working full-time as a Data Science Consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington DC.

John Haley studied Film, Television, and Theatre and International Peace Studies during his time at the University of Notre Dame. When he spent his social justice summer working with ART WORKS Projects, a media advocacy non-profit organization, John became interested in using visual arts to raise awareness about critical international issues. John has completed a variety of work in documentary film, including completing an internship with Sundance Award-winning production company Little Monster Films and assisting with the filming of a web-based documentary investigating oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. During the summer of 2017, John interned with CBS News in Washington, D.C. as part of the CBS This Morning team. His most recent film project, a short documentary film about the death penalty in America, has been selected to five film festivals and debuted on television as part of KCET’s Festival of Films. John was recognized by Notre Dame’s Department of Film, Television, and Theatre with the Broad Avenue Filmmakers Award, granted each year to a Notre Dame senior for the best work in film production. Following graduation, John joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest to work at New Avenues for Youth, a drop-in center for at-risk youth in Portland, Oregon.

In high school, Catherine was a National Merit Finalist, member of the National Honor Society, Relay for Life participant, member of her parish youth group, and a tutor. For three years, she worked at the The Food Project, a Boston-area nonprofit centered on diversity, sustainable agriculture, and social justice. Each year, she traveled to Kentucky on a mission trip to work with H.O.M.E.S., a local organization that builds houses for residents in need.

Catherine spent Summer 2015 volunteering with HELP International in Piura, Peru and as a Crew Leader for The Food Project's Summer Youth Program. During Summer 2016, she served as an Education Intern at the Stone Barnes Center for Food and Agriculture in New York. She spent the spring semester of her junior year living with a host family and attending a local university in Toledo, Spain. She was the Communications and Development intern at La Cocina, an organization that helps low-income food entrepreneurs grow their businesses, during Summer 2017 in San Francisco, CA.

At Notre Dame, Cassi is a volunteer tutor and member of the Ski and Snowboarding Club. She enjoys photography, snowboarding, and cooking. She is majoring in Political Science and minoring in Poverty Studies, and wrote her senior thesis on urban food policy. After graduation, she will be joining the Teach For America corps in Oakland, CA.

Timothy, a graduate of the African Leadership Academy, spent his Wilderness Leadership Summer canoeing at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in Maine.

On campus, he served as a Peer Academic Advisor, International Student Ambassador, and a member of the Honor Code Committee. He was also a Peer Advocate for the Office of Community Standards and held additional leadership positions at the Junior Class Council, Student International Business Council, and the Notre Dame Consulting Consortium.

As a member of Kellogg Institute’s International Scholars Program, Timothy served as a research assistant for Professor Catherine Bolten, an Anthropologist studying intergenerational conflict in Sierra Leone, and Professor Joseph Kaboski, a renowned Development Economist and Frisch Medal Laureate studying financial access in rural Uganda. He received CUSE grants in 2015 and 2016 to explore constraints to technology entrepreneurship in Kenya and Tanzania, and a Kellogg-Kroc grant in 2017 to study the consumption behavior of welfare-dependent households in Kenya.

Timothy interned with Ashoka in India the summer after his freshman year, with Google in Kenya the summer after his sophomore year, and with The Boston Consulting Group in Chicago the summer after his junior year. He briefly served as SVP of Legal Affairs and Finance for FairED, an education nonprofit co-founded by his classmate, Nikhil Garg. In his senior year, he founded the Dunkirk Group - a Kenyan social enterprise aiming to improve financial market participation among middle-income Kenyans (Learn more: dunkirkgroup.co.ke).

Timothy was the first student admitted into Notre Dame’s five-year Bachelor of Arts/Master of Global Affairs track. He will be working at the Boston Consulting Group in the summer of 2018 before returning to complete his graduate degree.

Michael McRoskey is a Computer Science graduate of the University of Notre Dame. A Hesburgh-Yusko scholar and recipient of the Snider Family Endowment Award for Excellence in European Studies, Michael is working for Google full-time post-graduation as a Technical Program Manager. Michael is the president and founder of The Red Bag, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that empowers neighbors to help the homeless through care packages that cost $5. Since it’s inception in 2012, The Red Bag has helped more than 15,000 homeless men and women in the United States. While at Notre Dame, Michael has served as the Director of Campus Technology in Student Government, an intern in the Office of Information Technology, and video producer and photographer for several on-campus clubs. In 2016, Michael produced a documentary on European refugees after meeting with refugees in Italy, Greece, Germany and Sweden. "Vis-a-Vis" was unveiled at the No Lost Generation Student Conference, an event endorsed by the State Department, in Washington DC in March 2017. Since then, Michael has continued learning about refugees, traveling to Finland and Estonia to learn how new technologies like blockchain are making lives easier for migrants and the financially excluded. Michael has a strong dedication to creative fields, having worked as an illustrator, photographer, video editor, industrial designer, graphic design artist, and front end website developer in the past. In 2018, Michael and a team of three undergraduate students won the Equifund Best Undergraduate Venture Award in the Notre Dame McCloskey Business Plan Competition.

In high school, Elisa was the CFO of a student-run organization called EmoART (emotional art), a group aiming to empower teenage girls in the Zandspruit Township in South Africa by using art as a medium to teach needed life skills. In the summer of 2013, Elisa interned at Equity Bank, a financial services provider headquartered in Nairobi. There, she developed a strong interest in microfinance and an understanding of the need for financial literacy in Rwanda.

For her Professional Venture summer, Elisa interned for the African Leadership University's Pan-African School of Business in Kigali, Rwanda. This internship provided her with a platform to study and understand the role of the private sector in solving the most concerning development issues in Africa. The previous summer, she also interned in Kigali, where she worked for the Rwandan Development Board, the government agency in charge of promoting Foreign Direct Investment. She spent summer 2015 volunteering with child education programs in Urubamba, Peru, through Peru Volunteer and Travel.

On campus, Elisa serves as an international ambassador as well as a Diversity Council representative for the African Student Association. In her senior year, she volunteered at Riley High School as a Moneythink financial literacy mentor. She is a member of Pi Delta Phi and is one of the two undergraduate who received the Walter Langford Award for Excellence in the Romance Languages Department.

Upon graduation, Elisa is relocating to D.C to work as a paralegal as she considers going to Law School or working in International Development.

Before college, Jens served two years as a sergeant and squad-leader in the Norwegian Panzer-Battalion (Assault Squadron 4), where he specialized in mechanized infantry warfare and leadership; he graduated with high distinction. Jens then moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he worked with the social project Karanba to study how marginalized children from the suburbs of Rio break out of structural, social immobility. While in Brazil, Jens also wrote three research papers that analyzed the relationship between sports and international development programs.

In the summer of 2015, Jens returned to Brazil to assist Karanba with new programs, specifically the implementation of vocational training programs, and later worked with a Luxembourgish bank. Jens spent the summer of 2016 working in a Norwegian private equity firm based in Oslo due to his interest in business development and entrepreneurship. He returned to Oslo for his Professional Venture summer to intern with Altor Equity Partners. After graduation, Jens will work in Allocation Strategies for Norges Bank Investment Management (the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund) in London and Oslo, as a part of their Investment Talent Programme, handling the macroeconomic exposure and strategic allocation of the fund.

In high school, Loren served as the vice president of Oxford Academy’s speech and debate team, the 2013 policy captain, and the congress captain throughout her sophomore and junior years. She qualified to compete at the speech and debate state and national qualifiers. A piano player for more than twelve years, Loren received awards at the Southwestern Youth Music Festival in 2011, 2012, and 2013. She has also played the trumpet for seven years and was a member of the Symphony Orchestra & Wind Ensemble with whom she played at Carnegie Hall. In her high school’s band, she was the brass section leader in 2013 and the first chair trumpet from 2010-2013.

Loren, who is active with Notre Dame’s Right to Life Club, volunteered with New York State Right to Life for her Social Justice Summer Experience. She conducted independent research on Canada's K-12 education system for her Global Inquiry summer in Ottawa, Canada. In the summer of 2017, Loren interned at the Canadian Parliament under MP Cathay Wagantail (Conservative, Yorkton-Melville), where she spent time working on veteran affairs, women's rights in Canada, and comparing legislation in Canada to legislation in America.

On campus, Loren serves as a Diversity Council representative for the Chinese Culture and Society Club, the vice president of the Legue of Legends Club, and the treasurer for Mending Minds. She is also a member of Quiz Bowl Club and debate team and volunteers at the Center for the Homeless and Healthwin in South Bend.

Jen was a finance and political science double major with an international business certificate and a passion for employing business solutions to social problems. At Notre Dame she led an impact investing group within Unleashed, was involved with Student International Business Council projects, mentored in an entrepreneurship class at the Robinson Community Learning Center, and co-authored an international business ethics case published in the 2017 Journal of Business Ethics Education. In her free time, Jen captained the club field hockey team and worked for Fighting Irish Media. She also served as the community engagement officer for the World Hunger Coalition.

For her social justice summer, Jen served as a social policy intern at Catholic Charities USA in Washington, D.C. For her global inquiry, she explored the relationship between public and private investment in community programs as a social enterprise analyst at The Difference Incubator in Melbourne, Australia. After spending her junior spring semester in London, Jen was a summer analyst in Goldman Sachs’ investment management division in New York City for her professional venture. She will be returning full-time after graduation.

At Notre Dame, Natasha is the executive producer for Show Some Skin. In addition, Natasha is a member of the Kellogg International Scholars Program where she works as a research assistant for Professor Doug Cassel. In this role, she's researched the the peace process in Colombia, court cases for torture victims, and efforts to decrease impunity and corruption in El Salvador and Honduras. Natasha, who is fluent in Spanish, is an official interpreter for the National Immigrant Justice Center. Natasha is active in the South Bend community and created an educational program at the Youth Services Bureau with scholar Alexis Doyle focused on sexual health, mental health, and other areas of well-being. She also started an aerobic exercise program for females at the Juvenile Justice Center in South Bend. 

Natasha spent her Social Justice summer interning with the Global Fund for Women in San Francisco, California, and the fall semester of 2015 studying abroad in Santiago, Chile. For her Global Inquiry summer, Natasha worked as a research assistant for Professor Jocelyn Viterna in Harvard University's Sociology Department in Cambridge, MA. She still works for Professor Viterna researching gender biases in legal processes in El Salvador. She interned at the United Nations Development Program in DC during the summer of 2017.

As a rising junior in high school, Maggie studied at MIT for four weeks taking classes in computer science, electrical engineering, and discrete mathematics. She has run an online graphic design business since her sophomore year in high school, designing web banners, business cards and profile pictures for shops specializing in handmade and vintage goods online. She continues to grow her business, which has made more than 900 sales.

For her Wilderness Leadership Experience, Maggie Spent 22 days backpacking, rock-climbing and whitewater canoeing in the Pisgah Forest in North Carolina with Outward Bound. Maggie spent her Social Justice summer in Chicago volunteering as a Teaching Assistant for Girls Who Code, a computer science education organization that empowers young women to enter the STEM field. During her sophomore year at Notre Dame, Maggie served as a teaching assistant for the Introduction to Engineering class. For her Global Inquiry Summer, she worked for Mxit Trust in Stellenbosch, South Africa, through a USAID Research and Innovation Fellowship.

Maggie studied abroad in London during the fall 2016 semester where she interned at PowerStation Studies, a graphic design firm. She spent her Professional Venture summer working as an application developer intern at Credit Suisse in New York City, NY.

Senay helped to organize the first-ever African Leadership Academy (ALA) Model African Union (ALAMAU 2014) and served as financial director. As an ALA peer counselor, he provided guidance and support to first-year students, helping as they adapted to the ALA environment. At ALA, he was part of a team called Angaza, which was a student-run enterprise that created concept-based games to teach underprivileged children.

For his Social Justice summer, Senay learned more about how to empower youth to use their critical thinking skills as well as how to improve their learning environments through a placement with the Terrain for Interactive Pedagogy in Mauritius. He spent his Global Inquiry summer in Beijing, China, working on integrating a Virtual Reality system with medical images to help medical professionals view and interact with human anatomy, which resulted in the creation of prototype software. The project was a joint effort between the Notre Dame China Engineering Program at Tsinghua University and General Electric. 

Senay studied abroad in London during the fall semester of his junior year. He spent his Professional Venture summer working for the Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem, which helps engineer solutions to environmental challenges in the South Bend community.

For her Wilderness Leadership experience, Emily completed a 22-day mountaineering and rock-climbing trip in Colorado’s Gore Mountain Range. Following her freshman year, she volunteered with the administrative team of Chunmiao Little Flower, a private orphanage in Beijing that provides care for abandoned children with disabilities. For her Global Inquiry summer, Emily received a grant from the Roberts Endowment for Undergraduate Research in East Asia through CUSE to conduct independent research on the importance and function of foreign NGOs in China.

For her Professional Venture summer, Emily interned at the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs’ Office of Public Diplomacy. Emily was chosen to serve as co-president of the World Hunger Coalition for the 2017-2018 academic year, an on-campus club that raises money to fight hunger.

Emily used the experiences from her HYSP summers to author her senior honors thesis, entitled: “Filling the Gap: Situating Abandonment, Disabilities, and Foreign NGOs in China’s Cultural Context.” She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa National Honors Society, and the Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology. Emily was awarded The Liu Family Distinguished Achievement Award in Asian Studies upon her graduation.

After graduation, Emily will be pursuing a Master’s in China Studies at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing, China.