Emily Reisman

“Right now our country is precariously perched at the fulcrum of political principles and could pivot enormously with just the slightest breeze. With an economic nose-dive, fledgling foreign affairs and a veritable energy crisis all crying out desperately for leadership, every issue is critical and every proposal must be examined critically.”

Biography: Having grown up in Colorado, Emily Reisman has been interested in people’s relationship to the environment ever since she can remember. An environmental studies and international and area studies major, she has leveraged opportunities that have reflected this interest and an appetite for adventure.

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At the end of her junior year, she traveled to Hawaii to volunteer on organic farms where she worked with coffee, lettuce and permaculture techniques to tropical fruit and vegetable production. Most recently, she visited Cameroon to “study international development and experience a different culture,” she says. A civil uprising disrupted her studies, however, and sent her to France for the remaining weeks of her semester abroad.

Reisman believes the environment, the economy and health care are pressing issues in this debate and hopes the candidates will fully address them.

“This election year will mark the most significant political decision of my generation,” she says. “Right now our country is precariously perched at the fulcrum of political principles and could pivot enormously with just the slightest breeze. With an economic nose-dive, fledgling foreign affairs, and a veritable energy crisis all crying out desperately for leadership, every issue is critical and every proposal must be examined critically.”

Reisman also is the musical director of the prominent WUSTL a cappella group “After Dark.”

Hometown: Greenwood, CO

Major/minor: Environmental studies and international and area studies

Student contact information: Cell: (303) 919-7523 E-mail: elreisman@gmail.com


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