Mentors
Chandler Thompson talks about the numerous mentors who had an impact on her while at student leader at NC State.
Interview on 2013-07-06 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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Yeah. I think there's a long list of people that played the role
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of a mentor while I was here at NC State. My academic advisor
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in First Year College, Melissa, she was a great first point of contact
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for me, and then I think once I got involved in various organizations
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the advisors to those organizations and other people in Student Affairs
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at NC State really became, you know, those people that guided me
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through the four years and supported me either when I was coming
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to them having, you know, what I thought, or maybe what was
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a really good idea, or maybe when I had a problem and I was dealing
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with something and wanted their help, whether it was-. Gosh, I asked them
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anything from sending an email-"Does this sound right?"-to some type
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of issue that we were addressing on campus, and a couple of those people--
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Evelyn Reiman; Mindy Sopher; Dr. Tom Stafford, luckily I got to work
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with him very closely; Eileen Coombes, who's been the student government advisor
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for the last five years, I got to work with her; Mike Giancola,
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worked closely with him because Eileen was on maternity leave for awhile;
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and then Chancellor Woodson I think my final year as student body president,
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working with him and Provost Arden, I felt like they had an open door policy
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with me. P. J. Teal in the chancellor's office as well, she had a huge impact.
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Our monthly lunches were very helpful as I was in my leadership role.
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