Student Leadership

Katie Bush

Kathleen fell in love with water along the shores of Seneca Lake at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY where she graduated in 2006 with a B.S. in Biology and Environmental Studies and a minor in mathematics. Immediately following graduation she spent a month traveling around Siberia’s vast Lake Baikal, then departed for Demark two months later. As a Fulbright Scholar in Copenhagen (2006-2007), Katie investigated the ecotoxicologic effects of pyrene on phytoplankton communities under varying nutrient regimes, simultaneously succumbing to the easy-going Danish way of life. In 2007 her passion for water brought her to the heart of the Great Lakes Region. At the School of Public Health, her interests revolve around the impact of water quality on human and ecosystem health in a changing climate.  During the summer of 2009 she worked and studied in Chennai, India, observing first hand the health effects of poor water quality and a lack of sanitation. While there, she investigated the relationship between extreme weather events and hospitalization. She also helped organize the first international conference jointly sponsored by the UM Center for Global Health, CDC, and ICMR to be held in Goa, India in August 2009. Katie also enjoys to swim, bike, and run - sometimes in that particular order. Other interests include hiking mountains, baking cakes, and taking photographs.

You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

Blake Charlebois

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Rick Durance

Rick likes to describe himself as a Prodigal Ann Arbor Townie.  He was born and raised in Ann Arbor, but moved to Lexington, KY then to Cleveland, OH. After high school, he decided to return to Ann Arbor and attend University of Michigan in 2007, where he initially intended to study Philosophy and Astrophysics. He is now a History major working on a Senior Thesis regarding U.S. Catholic Religious Activism in the early 70s, specifically in regards Latin America.

When not hanging out at Canterbury House, Rick is often involved in some social justice or religious activity.  He is one of the Interns at Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice while also serving on the Student Leadership Team for Interfaith Action.  Although a long time Canterburian, he still regularly attends Lord of Light Lutheran.  His hobbies include camping/hiking when he can, listening to music from folk covers of hymns to early 90s hip-hop, to reading obscure books, and writing, often about the political issues of the day.

"All my days I've been searching, to find out what this life is worth, through the books and bibles of time I've made up my mind I don't condemn, I don't convert, this is a calling have you heard bring all the lovers to the fold, cause no one is gonna lose their soul"

"Love is my Religion" by Ziggy Marley

Megan Lytle

"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

Allie Wills

But, for to speken of hir conscience,
She was so charitable and so pitous
She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous
Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.
Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde
With rosted flesh, or milk and wastel-breed.
But soore weep she of oon of hem were deed,
Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte;
And all was conscience, and tender hert.

Rebecca Wolf

Rebecca Wolf came to Ann Arbor from Wheaton, IL in 2003. She studies law at U-M; before that, she studied music and philosophy. When not hanging out at Canterbury House, she's likely working with immigrants on the US-Mexico border or serving in one role or another at the Inter- Cooperative Council, an organization of democratically-run student housing cooperatives in Ann Arbor. She spends her time reading, biking, and editing books, though she can still wield a devastating clarinet if you ask.