John Jay
Meet the Staff of John Jay
Kate Watson
John Jay Graduate Assistant (GA)
Hometown: Outskirts of Philadelphia
College/ Year/ Major: Teachers College, Psychological Counseling Campus Activities: Res Programs!!
Interests: Chocolate, old music, starbucks, Southfield!
Claire Popplewell
John Jay Community Assistant (CA)
Hometown: Morganville, NJ
College/Year/Major: SEAS 2010, Applied Mathematics & Pre-Med
Campus Activities: CAVA, Mathematics TA, Chemistry TA, Mechanical Engineering Research
Interests: Collecting Pez dispensers, reading Stephen King novels, watching ice hockey, watching TV and movies
Jesse Qualliotine
John Jay 5th floor RA
Hometown: Fairfax, Virginia
College/ Year/ Major: SEAS / 2012 / Biomedical Engineering
Campus Activities: Varsity Lightweight Rowing, American pre-Medical Student's Association
Interests: Crew, Frisbee, Music, Movies, and Minesweeper
Alex Bancu
John Jay 6th floor RA
Hometown: Lugoj (Romania)
College/ Year/ Major: CC 2011 - Architecture
Campus Activities: Scholars Program, Architecture Society and everything that is fun
Interests: Architecture, Film, Photography, Drama, Physics, Soccer.... this is getting too long :) Some other details: I LOOOOVE laughing!!! It just makes me laugh :)) And I do make alot of jokes, even if I'm the only one laughing... although usually everybody is cracking up :))
Sonya Chandra
John Jay 7th floor RA
Hometown: Norwood, NJ
College/ Year/ Major: CC 2011, History and Computer Science
Campus Activities: CCSC Class Representative, Columbia Dhoom (Bollywood dance team)
Interests: Dance, Running, American History, Watching copious amounts of TV (especially West Wing!)
Anything else you would like to let people know/ read about you! I'm really excited to meet all of my residents, and as a former member of John Jay 7, I know how amazing this floor can be.
Brendan Hannon
John Jay 8th floor RA
Hometown: New York City
College/Year/ Major: CC '11
Campus Activities: Sailing Club
Interests: Most recent project: teach myself the mandolin
Jae Rhee
John Jay 9th floor RA
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
College/Year/Major: SEAS 2011, Operations Research Major
Campus Activities: Lambda Phi Epsilon, Korean Students Association, Multicultural Greek Council, being an awesome RA.
Interests: Most sports, food, gaming, music
Extra Info: I was the Speed Eating Champion of John Jay 10 (my floor) during my Freshman Year. Although I played cello for ten years of my life, I was inspired by Rock Band and Guitar Hero to change instruments, and now I am trying to learn how to play the guitar.
Kyle Robinson
John Jay 10th floor RA
Hometown: Davie, FL
College/ Year/ Major: CC/11/Biophysics
Campus Activities: ResLife, Columbia New Music, AMSA
Interests: Hacky-sack, composing on piano, particle physics
Anything else you would like to let people know/ read about you!
I am a pre-med who will deny it till the very last day; I love calculus; I lived on JJ12 my freshmen year.
Michael Kelley-Bradford
John Jay 11th floor RA
Hometown: Farmington Hills, MI
College/ Year/ Major: CC'11 Econ and Politcal Science Major
Campus Activities: Former Track and Field Athlete Interests: Sports
(Basketball) and going out to different parts of NY city
Mary Martha Douglas
John Jay 12th floor RA
Hometown: Manhasset, New York
College/Year/Major: CC 2011, Anthropology and Political Science
Campus Activities: Alpha Chi Omega, Undergraduate Recruitment Committee, Community Principles Initiative, Days on Campus!
Interests: getting lost, cupcakes, thunder storms, long walks on the beach...(kidding)
Anything else you would like to let people know about you: I know the double name thing is rough. So you can call me m&m, M, MM, m-squared. Just not Mary (unless you're mad at me).
Perri O. Blumberg
John Jay 13th floor RA
Hometown: New York City
College/ Year/ Major: CC/ 2011/Psychology
Campus Activities: tutor, squash
Interests: going to too many dave matthews band concerts, road trips, music, concerts, taping live concerts, waterskiing, being an RA!
Alex Thomas
John Jay 14th floor RA
Hometown: Philadelphia. PA
Columbia College 2012, Undecided Major
Member of Columbia's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club
Interests: Martial arts, underground hip hop
Phillip Dupree
John Jay 15th floor RA
Hometown: Bowie, Maryland
College/ Year/ Major:
SEAS '11, Mechanical Engineering major / Political Science minor
Campus Activities: Shotokan Karate Club, FIRST Robotics, Columbia University Scholars Program, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
Interests: Robotics, Social Justice, teaching and mentoring kids from around the city, biking, adventuring, and saving the world.
Anything else you would like to let people know/ read about you!: I'm a MechE major/Poli Sci minor. It's a random mix but it works for me - there's nothing like problem sets one moment and papers analyzing international relations the next. I love building things, social justice/community service projects, and my awesome kids that I teach both at my job and in FIRST Robotics. I lead a ridiculous, busy life here in Columbia/New York City but would have it no other way. If I'm not on campus, I can be found riding my bike down Riverside Park and through Harlem, taking photographs of everything and anything, and reading books in corners of different Barnes and Nobles across the city.
