Coming Soon: Student Bios!
Our Returning Resident Assistant: Vunnathi Ankem
Hi everyone! My name is Vunnathi Ankem, and I’m from Montgomery County, MD. I am a senior majoring in Psychology as a Bachelor of Science. It’s an honor to serve you all as the Shriver Living Learning Community’s Residential Assistant (RA) this year. In my freshman year on the floor, I spent my Saturdays at an organization called UMB CURE through the Shriver Center where I worked with middle school scholars from the Baltimore City School system. For the last two years, I worked as a student leader at Student Ambassadors where we tour Commodore John Rodgers Elementary School students around UMBC’s campus and get them more excited about college. On the floor, I enjoy connecting with everyone through planning events like Just Dance Nights and Mafia Nights. Off the floor, I’m the President of the Honors College Council, a Sondheim Scholar and an dancer. In the academic world, I research intimate partner violence and gender based harms in the South Asian community especially in the US diaspora. And, when I’m not doing anything, I usually can be found reading, watching movies, making Maggi noodles, or going out to restaurants with friends. I look forward to meeting the new mentees for the floor and continuing the long lineage of Shriver LLC members with our new peer mentors!