Leadership
Dr. Anne Marie Thomas
Bio coming soon!
Sarah Jesser
Bio coming soon!
Honors Ambassadors
Alya Mansoor
Alya Mansoor (she/her) is pursuing a degree in engineering at Austin Community College (ACC) with plans of transferring to a university for a bachelor’s degree.
Her passion for STEM extends well beyond her studies and into her work and hobbies. For work, Alya has a blast instructing after-school STEM classes for young innovators! In her own time, she likes to code, play games, sketch, read, listen to music, and spend time with her rabbit.
She also likes to get involved with her collegiate body while striving for academic excellence. Alya is one of the Honors in Action officers for ACC’s international honor society, Phi Theta Kappa, and is also an officer for ACC’s Computer Science Student Organization.
Ashley Walpole
Ashley Walpole (she/her) is a creative writing major at Austin Community College with plans to transfer to the University of Northern Iowa. Ashley has four cats and a dog at home that she loves snuggling with on the couch. Sometimes her cat Toofa will come to lay down on her keyboard while she’s typing to help keep her workdays lively. Ashley loves writing, playing video games, editing videos, watching anime, and studying Japanese.
Chris
Bio coming soon!
Colleen Mulvey
Bio goes here
Mars Medina
Mars Medina (she/they) is a Radio-Television-Film major working through their associate’s and hoping to transfer and finish their bachelor’s in Film Production. Aside from work with the Honors Ambassadors, Mars also currently serves as the Honors Student Organization (HSO) President. Outside of school, one will most likely find them playing video games, recording and editing audio, or watching horror movies. Mars works in local television, working at KVUE as a production assistant and floor manager. (Ask them for funny stories about the news team!) After college, they hope to do some documentary work in South America, particularly with subjects concerning LGBTQIA+ individuals and stories. Their ultimate goal is to showrun their own original shows for television.
Nora O'Halloran
Nora O’Halloran (she/her) is a wildlife biology major at Texas State University. She has a huge passion for animals and volunteers with Austin Wildlife Rescue, fosters and raises kittens, and TNRs cats in her community. She has a dog, 2 snakes, and mourning geckos as her own pets! In her free time she enjoys watching true crime, listening to music, being creative with multiple art forms and spending time outdoors with her dog and boyfriend. She also loves all things dark and spooky and collects bones! You can follow along with her cat rescue/fostering on Instagram @atxfosterlady and keep up with her dog's adventures @zerosadventure.
Precious Ohemeng
Precious Ohemeng (she/her) is pursuing a degree in psychology/neuroscience at UT and is aiming for a career in medicine and brain/cognitive research.
Some of her interests includes learning new skills (sewing has been one of the most recent). Precious would also like to learn many new languages and cultures.
Samy Ráez
Samy is the ambassador coordinator and a senior at UT majoring in way too many things (all the humanities). Before she was an Honors student at ACC, Samy bounced around the globe working as a chef, tour guide/hostel manager, and NGO worker in disaster relief and climate equity. After 10 years abroad, Samy has made Austin home where she enjoys riding her bike, camping, giving out unsolicited podcast recommendations, reading all the books, and hosting crafting and game nights with her friendos.