Leadership

Founder

Daniel FirstDaniel First

Daniel is pursuing an M.Phil. in Philosophy at Cambridge, as Yale’s 2014 Henry Fellow. His current research focuses on German enlightenment and counter-enlightenment philosophers, who debate the role of science and reason in our investigations of human flourishing and ethical progress. He graduated Yale with a major in Cognitive Science, focusing on neuroscientific and philosophical investigations into the nature and plasticity of desire.

 

Flourish Board, 2013-2017

President

Celina ChiodoCelina Chiodo

Celina is a junior (MC ’17) from the Chicagoland area. She is pursuing The Literature Major while following the pre-medical path. She believes that studying the literature of cultures around the world will provide insight into the human condition, an insight necessary to investigate as a future health professional. Though she is not majoring in studio art, she finds painting to be another medium through which to explore the human condition.  Celina is also a QuestBridge Ambassador interested in encouraging bright, low-income students to pursue higher education.

 

 Directors of Development

Christina BradleyChristina Bradley

My name is Christina Bradley and I am a senior psychology major in Calhoun College. I am very interested in studying emotions and the mind and currently work at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. I play soccer, write for Flourish, am a member of Pi Beta Phi, and participate in groups on campus that try to increase wellbeing and happiness. I love to sing, hang out with friends, and take walks outside!

Abigail Gahm

Director of the Speaker Dinner Series

Scott RemerScott Remer

Scott Remer is a senior Ethics, Politics, and Economics major from Cleveland, OH. He edits for Accent (Yale’s multilingual magazine), the Yale Historical Review, and the Yale Politic, and he is the editor-in-chief of a fledgling left-wing political magazine, Margins: Perspectives from the Left. He organizes Flourish’s dinnertime speaker series on the theme “Happiness Across Different Cultures, Religions, and Philosophies.”

Assistant Director of the Speaker Dinner Series

Matthew Sant-Miller

Associate Editors

Daniel Shkolnik

Daniel Shkolnik is from Boston, Massachusetts, and currently pursues a degree in sociology at Yale University. Besides writing he enjoys breakdance, painting murals, and cooking.

His work has appeared in Out of Order, Cease, Cows, Apparent Magnitude, Escarpe, The Blue Pencil, the anthology Art, Lux, et Veritas, and in 2011 was awarded the William H. Lincoln Medal for writing.

Grant Kopplin

Minh NguyenMinh Nguyen

Minh is a senior philosophy major from middle-of-nowhere-Georgia (it’s a good place to do nothing, hence super conducive to philosophizing).  She is interested in Philosophy of Mind and animal rights, and is currently working on her thesis on panpsychism. She also edits for the Yale Philosophy Review.

 


Design Editor

Isaac MorrierIsaac Morrier (Branford ‘17) is an artist, designer, and writer from Hudson, New Hampshire. In addition to his work with Flourish, he is the Communications Director for the Yale College Council. Isaac rows on the men’s lightweight crew and enjoys cooking and playing the drums.

 


 

Flourish Board, 2017.

Editor-in-chief: Marina Tinone (Silliman ’20)

Public Relations & Outreach Coordinator: Evy Roberts (Timothy Dwight ’19)

Treasurer: Mark Torres (Morse ’20)

Website Coordinator: Raeven Grant (Pauli Murray ’19)

Design & Layout Editor: Vicky Blume (Timothy Dwight ’19)

Editor: Rob Henderson (Hopper ’18)