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| Fabianna Pergolizzi |
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President
Fabianna Pergolizzi
Fabianna is currently the President of Project Anti Bully and
is the first author of "Bullying Against Middle Schools: Results from a 5 school survey" project. She is a freshman majoring in Psychology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Throughout the past four years, she has been working on developing and expanding the social network by including and presenting at many schools and medical conventions. During May of 2007, she presented data at the 160th year anniversary of the APA (American Psychiatric Association) in San Diego, California, making her the youngest presenter in APA's history. In 2008 she presented the second year data at the British Psychological Association in Dublin Ireland during the summer; as well the American Psychological Association in Boston, Massachusetts in the fall. She has also been featured in the Naples Daily News, the Collier County Education Television Channel, TalkRadio, and in Naples Illustrated for her efforts. Currently she continues to distribute surveys to different schools in Naples, Florida while enhancing Project Anti Bully's website.
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| The Triumph Award was given to Fabianna in April 2008 for her outstanding efforts with Project Anti Bully |
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Zoe Gan - is currently a sophomore at East Chapel Hill High School (2008-09) in Chapel Hill, NC. She is a co-author of "Bullying Against Middle Schools: Results from a 5 school survey" and distributed surveys to 7th and 8th graders at her local Smith Middle School. She is also an author of Nora the Nonapus, a children's book about bullying and acceptance that won the Scholastic "Kids Are Authors" national bookwriting competition in 2004. Zoe is a member of the Amnesty International club at East Chapel Hill High. She hopes that the project will increase awareness of specific types of bullying in middle school such as gossip and exclusion so that teachers and parents can target the more subtle, widespread forms of bullying, not just the physical aspects.
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| Zoe Gan |
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| Eve Wright |
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Eve Wright- is currently an eighteen year old senior at Bremen High School. She is a Varsity Cheerleader and a huge participant in her school's theater program (and others, she has been in over 50 plays). She is a server at Cracker Barrel, and currently is working on speaking to her local schools about the effects bullying can have on a victim, bully, and those surrounding them. She will also be speaking to our local clubs and organization. Also she will be competing for the Miss Southern Rivers title this year and starting the Hands for Change campaign in her region!
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Samantha Macario - is a junior (2009-2010) at Gunn High School in Palo Alto,California. She loves to spend time with her friends, dive on her school diving team, and read books by Sarah Dessen. Her favorite classes in school are physics and short fiction.
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| Samantha Macario |
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Samantha asked her Algebra teacher to help distribute the Project Anti Bully surveys because she knew the teacher would be interested in the topic and willing to help the cause. From the bullying research study, Samantha learned that there was more bullying in middle school and in high school than she first had expected. She defines bullying as when an individual is hurt emotionally or physically by another person or a group of people. If there was one thing she could do to reduce bullying everywhere she would tape a documentary focused on real kids who have been bullied, and show it in schools everywhere. After college Samantha would like to become a high school teacher.that there was more bullying in middle school than she had expected. She defines bullying as when an individual is hurt emotionally or physically by another person or a group of people. If there was one thing she could do to reduce bullying she would make a video and show it to the students to educate the kids. After college Samantha would like to teach middle school English.
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| Tj Ewin |
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T.J. Ewin- is currently a freshman who attends the University of South Florida majoring in Fiance. He contributed to Project Anti Bully's data by distributing surveys to middle schools in Omaha, Nebraska. In high-school, he was an active member of the NYRA, (National Youth Rights Association) Project Extra Mile, (The statewide network of community coalitions in Nebraska working to prevent underage drinking) and the Sierra Club. T.J. Ewin has taken a proactive approach to stop underage drinking in the Omaha area by appearing before the liquor control commission numerous times to enforce stricter laws for minors who obtain liquor though adults. He is the head chapter of Project Anti Bully in Nebraska.
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Joseph Pergolizzi - is currently a sophomore at the Seacrest Country Day School in Naples, Florida. He will be participating in next years study. Joseph will be participating in Project Anti Bully's campaign Hands for Change by getting his school's middle and high school involved.
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| Alex Brantely |
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Alex Brantely- is currently 10 years old and a 5th grader at EP Razyor Elementary in Lantana, Texas. She is a competitive cheerleader and soccer player. Alex is focusing on creating an Anti-Bullying campaign at her school hopefully around the weeks of April 12th or April 19th.
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Dalia Shalaby - New Team Member!
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| Darren Richmond |
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Darren Richmond- is the second author of ‘Bullying Against Middle Schools: Results from a 5 school survey’ project. He contributed to the surveys using 7th and 8th graders at a middle school in Miami, Florida. Last fall, he presented the results of the surveys to the faculty of the middle school that he surveyed prior to that school implementing an anti-bully educational program. Along with Fabianna Pergolizzi, he presented the project’s poster at the 160-Annual American Psychiatric Conference in San Diego, California on May 21, 2007. He currently is a freshman at Florida State University where he is majoring in Psychology and Criminology.
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Paul Auster - is an author for ‘Bullying Against Middle Schools: Results from a 5 school survey’ project. He contributed to the data by distributing surveys to middle schools in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently a sophomore at the University of Maryland where he is planning on majoring in Pre-med.
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