Team Members - Bolivia

Jack majors in anthropology with a minor in religious studies. His interests include journalism, filmmaking, theater, politics and diving into new experiences. He is looking forward to Bolivia and onward to next year when he hopes to lead an NYU solo trip with Students of the World.

Nessa Norich is graduating Barnard College having majored in theater with a minor in anthropology. She travels frequently to Europe and the Middle East and has lived abroad in Spain and Costa Rica. She would like to pursue performance studies and plans to begin to do so by traveling and learning diverse ritualistic forms of theater and dance.

Sam is a student of English language and literature at Columbia University. This trip marks his fourth visit to South America, a continent that he someday hopes to explore in its entirety. Although currently preferring literature, he studied photography in high school and has dabbled in it since. Thus, he'll be the team photographer in Bolivia.

James graduated from Columbia University in May with a degree in English language and literature. Students of the World will mark his fifth trip to Central or South America; he has previously spent summers in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic studying, living with host families and/or performing volunteer work. He has been heavily involved with student journalism in his time at Columbia and is excited to write about his experiences in Bolivia for SOW.