Anita, Gilberto, and Leah & Luke are up

My last semester at CGU, I interviewed several really interesting people for student and alumni profiles for The Flame. Amongst them was a lady named Anita Boling, a PhD student named Gilberto Ocampo, and a married couple, both PhD's, Leah and Luke Schulte. Well, last night, I accidentally came across the profiles on the Flame website! I did not know that they were up, so it was a pleasant surprise, and I thought I would share them :)

Anita is really an amazing woman, who overcame a great personal loss to go on and do some amazing things with African "virgin" villages (meaning, African villages that have never received outside aid) by creating a non-profit named ViNA (Village Network Africa). During our meeting, she was lovely, and even brought a big bag full of African toys, instruments, and other items from the first village she and her team had been to. Read my profile on her, but know that it is by no means doing justice to the amazing work she has done, or the people she has met!!

Gilberto is also a really interesting figure - a CGU botany PhD student originally from Mexico, he traveled to Australia to do field research on a tiny plant called Portulaca, which may be used in cholesterol medicine. He is very charming, and a great sport, and gave me and my friend Joey a great tour of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.

Leah and Luke were really lovely, a couple who met at CGU and have since gotten married. Both are PhD students at the School of Religion, and together, they have put on conferences at CGU where students from different faiths could come together and discuss their points of view.

The profiles are on CGU's The Flame website:
Click here and then go to Alumni Profile for Anita Boling, and to Student Profile for Gilberto Ocampo and the Schultes.