Experienced Guidance for First-Year Students

Image of Emily with students — Emily Parratt shows her first-year student mentees the features of the RWU library while on a campus tour before the start of the fall semester.

Emily Parratt, RWU Class of 2018

Major: Cultural Studies

Alumni

Although it’s her senior year, Emily Parratt spent the beginning of the fall semester reliving her first freshman days on campus. But this time she was on the flip side of the coin – as a Peer Mentor dedicated to welcoming and helping this year’s new crop of Hawks navigate college life.

To assist with the transition to life at RWU, every freshman and new transfer student is paired with a Peer Mentor.

As one of 60 Peer Mentors on campus, Parratt, a psychology and American studies double major, serves as a resource for her mentees on a range of topics throughout their first year at RWU. They are able to contact her as much as they need for help with registering for classes, roommate challenges and homesickness, or how to approach a professor to request more assistance, among other things.

Additional Stories

A True Leader and Scholar
Asia Carter-Lamb, RWU Class of 2020
Finance
Asia Carter-Lamb knew she was interested in money management from a young age. After majoring in finance at RWU, she got a job as an Associate Financial Analyst at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, MA. In the future, Carter-Lamb plans to leverage her skills to help her community in her home city of Baltimore.
Exploring Refuge
Cayley Dorr, RWU Class of 2017
Dance and Performance Studies
Learning an art form is a difficult task in and of itself, but using that art form as a tool for social justice is the work of artistic activism. Cayley Dorr worked with Professor Cathy Nicoli and her Advanced Choreography class to express what they’d learned about the refugee crisis through the medium they are passionate about.
First Responder to Cyber Attacks
Anthony Mosesso, RWU Class of 2018
Cybersecurity & Networking
Anthony Mosesso '18 works to protect customers and coworkers from online phishing attacks by scammers looking to steal credit card, bank account, and other sensitive information. He uses the skills he learned while earning his degree in Cybersecurity & Networking.