Samantha Santiago, a sophomore majoring in anthropology, was selected as the February student of the month.
She is part of the Schreyer honors program. On campus, she serves as a peer tutor, peer mentor, and public relations coordinator for Lion Ambassadors.
Her nominator complimented Santiago’s role with the STARS program, which brings specifically invited students to campus a few days early and works with them on success skills throughout their first year of college.
“Sammi not only took full advantage of the opportunities STARS afforded her, but she consistently reached out to her STARS peers to make sure they were doing OK. Sammi was the first to apply for peer mentors for the second year of STARS and has become the lead mentor for the program. She has been a very active mentor and the new STARS students are very thankful for her assistance,” her nominator wrote.
Santiago plans to pursue bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in anthropology and aspires to become a museum curator at an institution like the American Museum of Natural History, working in the anthropology division while traveling and doing cultural research of her own.
A graduate of Pocono Mountain East High School, she is the daughter of Maria and Julio Santiago, Stroudsburg.
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