James Madison University

Meet the Staff

Student Directors

Nicole Ferraro

Nicole Ferraro
Year: Senior
Hometown: Saratoga Springs, NY
Major: Public Health/Mathematics
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do it. That is what the world needs, people who have come alive."


Kelly Patullo

Kelly Patullo
Year: Senior
Hometown: Manassas, VA
Major: Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies, Elementary Education
"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it; Anything you want to, do it; Want to change the world, there's nothing to it." -Willy Wonka

Leadership Counselors

Andrea Mellonakos

Andrea Mellonakos
Year: Senior
Hometown: Westford, MA
Major: Social Work
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." -Albert Camus


Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly
Year: Senior
Hometown: Merrick, NY
Major: Management/Communication Studies
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now!" -Joan Baez


Lucy Madden

Lucy Madden
Year: Junior
Hometown: Silver Spring, MD
Major: Communication Sciences & Disorders/Spanish, Exceptional Education
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."


Casey Currie

Casey Currie
Year: Senior
Hometown: Maple Glen, PA
Major: English
"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit." -Henry David Thoreau


Nick Bakewell

Nick Bakewell
Year: Senior
Major: Computer Science
Hometown: Warrenton, VA
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space."


Andrae Hash

Andrae Hash
Year: Senior
Hometown: Pulaski, VA
Major: Public Relations/Human Resource Development
"If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a month - get married. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else." -Chinese Proverb


Brian Belskey

Brian Belskey
Year: Senior
Hometown: Camp Hill, PA
Major: Finance
"You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose." - Robert E. Lee


Bridget Little

Bridget Little
Year: Junior
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Major: Health Sciences, Pre-Med
"A smile is a curve that straightens everything out."


Amanda Harding

Amanda Harding
Year: Senior
Hometown: Culpeper, VA
Major: Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies, Elementary Education
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt


Danny Lampton

Danny Lampton
Year: Senior
Hometown: Virginia Beach, VA
Major: Political Science/Music Industry
"I want to live a real life; I don't want to dream any longer..." -Vanilla Sky


Kelly Bonnez

Kelly Bonnez
Year: Senior
Hometown: Rochester, NY
Major: Psychology/Theatre, Statistics
"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."


Sarah Sweetman

Sarah Sweetman
Year: Junior
Hometown: Vernon/Rockville, CT
Major: Health Communications/Nonprofit Services, Writing and Rhetoric
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened!" -Dr. Seuss


Jaleal Sanjak

Jaleal Sanjak
Year: Junior
Hometown: Reston, VA
Major: Biotechnology/Economics
"Spaceships don't come equipped with rearview mirrors." -Andre 3000


Chris Carter

Chris Carter
Year: Senior
Hometown: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Major: Business Management/Creative Writing
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." -Robert Byrne


Joshua Shull

Joshua Shull
Year: Senior
Hometown: Herndon, VA
Major: Business Management
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - C.S. Lewis


Rashaunda Jackson

Rashaunda Jackson
Year: Junior
Hometown: Dinwiddie, VA
Major: Public Policy & Administration/ Non-Profit Studies
"I learned that when you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone, because you will have divine companionship and the support of good people." -Coretta Scott King

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