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From Student Association president, to campus outreach coordinator for the Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding, to manager of the women\u2019s basketball team and A LOT in between, senior Carmine Couloute is one of Queens College\u2019s most active students.<\/p>\n
Couloute saw QC\u2019s campus through the window while attending neighboring John Bowne High School. \u201cI applied to QC because it\u2019s affordable, and I could escape from home without being too far from home,\u201d she says. At John Bowne she learned about the Percy E. Sutton SEEK Program, a state-funded initiative for economically disadvantaged or academically underprepared students. The program introduced her to college life\u2014and a world she never knew existed.<\/p>\n
Through SEEK (an acronym for Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge), Couloute helped to organize several campus events, piquing her interest in QC\u2019s student government. Eventually, she ran for its highest office. \u201cI wanted to have a role to combine everything I\u2019ve been a part of,\u201d she explains. As Student Association president, she allocates budgets, plans programs, and chooses policies for the semester. Her work has included making the library more accessible to students, promoting sustainable development, and organizing and promoting the school\u2019s food pantry.<\/p>\n
In addition to leading the Student Association, Couloute keeps the campus connected to CERRU events and maintains the scorebook for the women\u2019s basketball team. She works part-time for the New York Racing Association. Somehow, she manages to pursue a triple major in political science, sociology, and economics.<\/p>\n
Couloute didn\u2019t even take a summer break before her senior year. Through the CUNY Service Corps, she went to Puerto Rico for two weeks to help repair homes damaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. A Haitian-born immigrant who came to Queens at age five, she felt compelled to assist after seeing the devastation wrought in her homeland by the 2010 earthquake. Her heritage also inspired her to spend two weeks in Haiti, studying its twotiered citizenship and informal class system. She presented her research on campus at the Mellon Foundation Faculty Diversity Conference in November.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth experiences highlighted the importance of being a global citizen, of giving back, and truly immersing oneself in another culture,\u201d comments Couloute, who plans to enter a graduate program in international relations and ultimately work for the State Department as a diplomat.<\/p>\n
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