GAPSA Executive Board 2008-2009
Kristi Kremers
President
kremers at umn dot edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration
Hometown: St. Cloud, MN
Job: Graduate Assistant for the EDPA program
Fun Fact: I was once invited to appear on WWF Smackdown on my way to work at First Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. I declined the offer.
Statement: "I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." ~Orson Welles
Zeeshan Syedain
Executive Vice President
syeda004 at umn dot edu
Degree Sought: PhD in Chemical Engineering and Material Science
Hometown: New York, NY
Job: Social worker (take money from graduate/professional students and then redistribute back to them, that's my social service)
Fun Fact: I love jumping from heights - it helps me overcome the fear of height.
Statement: I always hated industry for all the politics they got in it, it turns out there is even more politics in academia.
Imee Cambronero
Vice President for Administrative Affairs
camb0009 at umn dot edu
Degree Sought: Masters in Public Health, Maternal/Child Health and Global Health
Hometown: Woodbury, MN
Job: Vice President Administration Affairs, Department of Pediatrics - Prevention Research Center Pre-doctorate Fellow and Research Assistant
Fun Fact: retired dance teacher and social butterfly
Statement: "Unless you know the road you've come down, you cannot know where you are going" - Tenne proverb, Sierra Leone
Stephanie Grimm
Vice President for Finance
dehni004 at umn dot edu
Degree Sought: 5th year Ph.D Student in Business Administration in the Accounting Department
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Job: On top of my graduate student duties (which these days primarily consists of analysis for my dissertation), I am the GAPSA VP of Finance. At GAPSA, I account for the cash in flows and out flows. On Tuesday afternoons you can find me at the pool for my other job, teaching water aerobics.
Fun Fact: I like to climb walls.
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Elizabeth Morrissey
Vice President for Public Affairs
morri674 at umn dot edu
Degree Sought: J.D. 3L
Hometown: Austin, TX
Job: The VP for Public Affairs serves as the representative for public policy, legislative affairs, and grassroots organizing for GAPSA.
Fun Fact: I love Bikram Yoga.
Statement: "I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas." - JFK
Kristina Erstad
Vice President for Programming
erst0015 at umn dot edu
Degree Sought: M.S.W.
Hometown: Worthington, MN
Job: I plan the GAPSA
social events, design the GAPSA brochure & magnet, sit on the GAPSA
Internal Affairs and Programming Committees, and many more!
Fun Fact: I
rock at Wii boxing.
Statement: When you come to the edge of all that you
know, you must believe one of two things: There will be earth to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.
Kevin Wendt
Vice President for Grants
wend0144 at umn dot edu
Degree Sought: Master of Science in Computer Science
Hometown: Miller, SD
Job: Applications Programmer in Proofs of Concept, Wells Fargo Corporation
- Technology Information Group
Fun Fact: My favorite city is London, UK, and my favorite place is Edinburgh, Scotland.
Statement: Anything worth doing is worth getting hurt for.
Jason Einertson
Vice President for Student Affairs
jeinerts at umn dot edu
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Jeffrey Anderson
Vice President for Student Affairs
ander034 at umn dot edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration, Higher Education track
Hometown: Northeast Minneapolis
Job: I am currently teaching undergraduate learning skills courses here at the U, which I really enjoy.
Fun Fact: I am a music geek and enjoy collecting vinyl LPs. CDs are junk - long live vinyl!
Statement: "You can have everything if you let yourself be" - Donovan P. Leitch
Lexie Hunzie
At-Large Director
hunzi010 at d dot umn dot edu
Degree Sought: PharmD
Hometown: Kemmerer, Wyoming
Job: Walgreens District Office intern. At GAPSA, I am the At-large Director. I handle the National Conference Planning, Duluth Involvement, Committee attendence and Duluth Relations.
Fun Fact: Kemmerer is the birthplace of J.C. Penney's
Statement: "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." -Hubert Humphrey
GAPSA Staff
Danielle Tessmer
Office Assistant
gapsaoa at umn dot edu
Degree Sought: BA in Global Studies and Italian
Hometown: Glencoe, MN
Job: Handles daily office tasks
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Monica Howell
Grants Assistant
gapsaga at umn dot edu
Degree Sought: Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration
Hometown: Amana, IA
Job: Processing grant applications and evaluations, answering all your grants-related questions.
Fun Fact: I hold the equivalent of 2nd degree black belt in Japanese archery.
Public Affairs Assistant
gapsapa at umn dot edu
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