Board & Committees

UEA Student Board

UEA E-Board Elections

E-board elections are now over (nominating ended April 9). Results will be posted shortly.

The current list of board memebers is for informational purposes, these positions will change shortly after the election.

President
Matthew Ballew
ballewm@umich.edu

Vice President
Michelle Attar
attarm@umich.edu

Vice President/Awards Head
Paul Fiehler
paulfieh@umich.edu

Vice President/Book Club Head
Joel Arnold
jkarnold@umich.edu

Vice President/Book Club Head
Anne Ebbers
ebbersa@umich.edu

Secretary
Sara Dorer
scdorer@umich.edu

Treasurer
Elizabeth Dougherty
lizdoc@umich.edu

Fortnight Editor/Awards Head
Elizabeth Gengarelly
elizelly@umich.edu

Fortnight Editor
Noelle Williams
noellew@umich.edu

Fundraising Head/Awards Head
Lola Ali-Oke
lkalioke@gmail.com

Fundraising Head
Mehwish Khaliq
mehwishk@umich.edu

Fundraising Head
Lorena Disha
ldisha@umich.edu

Fundraising Head
Erin Stacer
estacer@umich.edu

Publicity Head/Book Club Head
Elena Azadbakht
eazadbak@umich.edu

Publicity Head
Vinal Desai
desaivi@umich.edu

Publicity Head
Alison Piech
ampi@umich.edu

Xylem Editor/Awards Head
Laura Swanson
llswans@umich.edu

Xylem Editor
Caitlin Cowan
caitanne@umich.edu

Xylem Editor
Beenish Ahmed
beeahmed@umich.edu

Technician
Erol Ahmed
zafer@umich.edu

Committees

If you would like to be part of one of these committees, please email the person in charge. Also mention whether you would be interested in co-chairing a committee.

Awards Committee
Jee-Hoon Cho | jeehoonc@umich.edu
This committee will focus on choosing recipiants for English Deaprtment awards. This will be a small group who help acknowlegde worthy faculty and students.

Fortnight Committee
Matthew Ballew | ballewm@umich.edu
Noelle Williams | noellew@umich.edu
Join us to participate in the development of the UEA's regular newsletter that primarily consists of event reviews, creative prose, poetry, and artwork. We offer a number of opportunities to contribute to layout design, fundraising, written reviews, publicity, and judging submissions.

Fundraising Committee
Lauren Goldberg | laurenag@umich.edu
This committee will be focused on not only raising money for the UEA, but also working on getting our name out there. We want to raise money and awareness for our group through a series of fun and creative activities.

Publicity Committee
Matthew Ballew | ballewm@umich.edu
The role of the committee is to publicize the UEA, Fortnight, and Xylem. The committee is responsible for finding creative avenues to advertise through, writing publicity pieces, and contacting relevent personal at places such as the Michigan Daily, UofM Radio, Ann Arbor News, Shaman Drum, etc. The committee will also be responsible for the creation of flyers, brochures and other such graphic advertising.

Xylem Committee
Beenish Ahmed | beeahmed@umich.edu
Laura Swanson | llswans@umich.edu
This committee is responsible for publishing an annual literary magazine comprised of undergraduates' poetry, prose, and artwork. Tasks include judging submissions, working on magazine layout, fundraising and publicity.

Tentative Committees

Curriculum Committee
General Contact | uea.board@umich.edu
The committee will be working closely with faculty members as the English Department begins an extensive reexamination of undergraduate English studies at U of M. Committee members will be responsible for working with Department members to gather feedback from undergraduates about their studies and goals as English concentrators.

Writing Workshops Committee
General Contact | uea.board@umich.edu
Committee members are expected to possess admirable writing skills and to know how to give constructive criticism. We will be helping undergraduates hone and develop their writing skills in their essays, poetry, stories, and other writing pieces.