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Subject: Montana State University students serve on local nonprofit boards

Montana State University students serve on local nonprofit boards 

05/05/2022 Contact: Heather Winslow at [email protected] or 406-994-7279 

Summary: Eleven students have spent the academic year serving in non-voting positions on local nonprofit boards as participants in the MSU Leadership Institute’s Boardroom Bobcats program. 

A high-resolution photo to accompany this story is available on the Web at:
http://www.montana.edu/news/pressroom/?id=22092

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BOZEMAN — Eleven Montana State University students spent the academic year serving on the boards of local nonprofit organizations as part of the MSU Leadership Institute’s Boardroom Bobcats mentorship program, which is completing its sixth year.  

The Boardroom Bobcats program selects MSU students and matches them with local nonprofits, where they serve as non-voting board members. In addition to regular board meetings, the students undertake specific board projects and participate in professional development training hosted by MSU’s Leadership Institute to develop lifelong leadership skills. The program provides students with nonprofit sector experience and mentoring. In return, the participating nonprofits’ boards gain valuable student perspectives. 

Tyler Noyes, a student double majoring in agriculture business and agriculture education in MSU’s College of Agriculture, participated in the program this academic year. 

“Serving with the Montana Farm Bureau has not only been beneficial to my course of study in agriculture but has helped to establish a relationship with an organization that is committed to the agriculture community and industry,” Noyes said. 

Program participants for the 2021-2022 academic year, listed with their major, hometown and the nonprofit they’re matched with, are: 

  • Owen Burroughs, microbiology and political science, Bozeman, Bridgercare.  
  • Amir Darabi-Noferesti, mechanical engineering, Bozeman, Montana Freshwater Partners. 
  • Darby May, social studies broadfield education, Evergreen, Colorado, Crescent Montana. 
  • Tyler Noyes, agriculture business and agriculture education, Toston, Montana Farm Bureau Federation. 
  • Calvin Servheen, industrial and management systems engineering, Missoula, Prospera Business Network. 
  • Hailey Sinoff, political science and sociology, Truckee, California, Mountain Time Arts. 
  • Lizzie Tobias, business management, Bozeman, Heart of the Valley Animal Shelter.  
  • Madison Wambeke, music, Whitefish, Intermountain Opera Bozeman.  
  • Holly Watson, public administration, Livingston, Livingston Food Resource Center. 
  • Jonmichael Weaver, mechanical engineering, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Warriors and Quiet Waters.  
  • Vanessa Zamora Moreno, psychology and business management, Bogota, Columbia, We Are HER. 

The program made its debut in 2016 with support from a $5,000 seed grant from MSU’s Outreach and Engagement Council. For more information about the program, visit montana.edu/leadership/boardroombobcats.html

MSU students who are interested in serving as a Boardroom Bobcat during the 2022-2023 academic year are encouraged to fill out an application before the deadline on May 23 at 5 p.m. Applications are available at https://forms.gle/sPssYdPL1t3dW6ND8

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This story is available on the Web at: http://www.montana.edu/news/22092