Hometown: New York, NY
Major: English/Creative Writing


Activities & Honors:  
Editor in Chief- First Call Magazine,  Chair/Secretary-Stimulus Children's Theater, Chair/Creator- Human Rights Week, Associate Editor- Penn Bioethics Journal, Member- Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Member- Liberty in North Korea, Member- Spruce Mentors, Dean's List

 


Hobbies: Writing, watching bad reality shows on Vh1, cuddling, eating cheesy foods, laughing, and pretending.
Favorite Book: Everything is Illuminated
       and Buddha's Little Finger

Favorite Movie: At the moment, Superbad
Favorite Food: Goat cheese
Favorite Quote: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
       ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
  
Plans after Penn: Travel the world, then settle down and learn some more...then probably get a job and get married and have kids, and finally a happy retirement on a beach somewhere.

Shira Bender '08