Author: Madelene Niraimathi Rabi Bernard

Madelene is a second year MBA student majoring in marketing and entrepreneurship. She is a computer science engineer and an entrepreneur who is passionate about social entrepreneurship, marketing communications, public relations and consumer psychology.
At Whitman, she serves as Student Ambassador and president of the Whitman Women in Business club. She is also a yoga practitioner, music enthusiast and a bookworm with a mild case of wanderlust.

Guest Post: Reflections from Hiking the Great Smoky Mountains

It was Thanksgiving 2015. Fall was in all its glory, and a bunch of my fellow MBA students and I decided to celebrate it by hiking up the majestic smoky mountains. We joked about reaching the highest peak in the…

Guest Post: What I Remember & Learned So Far

Have you had that feeling of growing up? That feeling of independence and strength? That rush of freedom? And the responsibility and commitment that come with it? When I left home in July to come to Syracuse, it was the…

Knock those walls down!

It was the summer of 2012. I had just started volunteering with an organization that was working to provide vocational training and employment to women from a remote Indian village to give them some means to empower themselves. I grew…