SARAH MARIE CATALANA
Wofford College, B.S., Biology and Education; University of Georgia, PhD, Educational Psychology (candidate)

While at Wofford College, Sarah Marie studied biology through the lens of community service and education. She studied in Mexico her freshman year, and later explored Vietnam and Cambodia. While in the United States, she established a pen-pal program between Wofford volunteers and Hispanic students at a local elementary school. She completed a four-month ecology and conservation study-abroad program in Ecuador, and spent time teaching both English and Biology in a rural village of the Andes Mountains. She then returned to the U.S. to complete student-teaching requirements and earn her certification to teach secondary biology. Sarah Marie has studied the intricacies of learning in neuroscience labs at Vanderbilt University, and is now a doctoral student in Educational Psychology at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on experiential learning and creativity. She teaches an undergraduate Educational Psychology course, and serves as a facilitator for college students working at a local elementary school. This fall, she will return to the University of Georgia to continue teaching and begin writing her dissertation.​ Sarah is fluent in Spanish.

CHARLIE GILLIHAN
Columbia University, B.A., Nonfiction Creative Writing; Lehman College, M.S.Ed., Secondary Chemistry Education; Columbia University, Post-baccalaureate Certificate Program

While at Columbia University, Charlie published a travel guide about Latin America and translated many South American short stories and poems from Spanish into English. He is currently working on translating a collection of short stories written by a Peruvian author he met while studying abroad at La Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima. He has traveled extensively in Latin America, including to Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Charlie currently lives in New York, where he teaches Chemistry and Biology in a high school in the South Bronx, volunteers as a research assistant in the Children’s Emergency Department at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and is pursuing a post-baccalaureate certificate. He will begin medical school in the fall. Charlie is fluent in Spanish. He has led Putney’s Community Service Costa Rica program.