2021-2022 ELp Facilitators

The Emerging Leader Program: Leaders for Others

Since its inception in 1988, the Emerging Leader Program (ELP) has earned the reputation of being a premiere leadership program for first-year students at Boston College. Each year, 50 first-year students are selected to participate in the one-year leadership development program. Guided by the Social Change Model of leadership development, ELP aims to form听leaders for others. By participating in ELP, students develop the leadership skills and competencies necessary to facilitate positive change on campus and in their communities.

This year-long leadership development program will equip and empower students to engage in leadership during their time at Boston College and beyond through large and small group activities and discussions, events, experiential outings, service, and mentorship.

ELP Facilitators

Emerging Leaders Program Facilitators play an important role in supporting the leadership development of first year students while also guiding them through their transition into the Boston College community. Through regular engagement, discussion, and mentorship, facilitators help students explore their values, build confidence in their leadership abilities, and better understand how leadership can be practiced in everyday campus life. Facilitators cultivate meaningful mentoring relationships that encourage reflection, personal growth, and connection with peers. By creating a supportive environment for dialogue and learning, they help first year students develop the skills, awareness, and sense of responsibility needed to become leaders who contribute positively to the Boston College community and lead in service of others.

ELP Facilitators

Lexie Crist

Lexie Crist

CSOM & MCAS 鈥29
Hometown: Tacoma, WA
Leah Cuyler

Leah Cuyler

LSEHD 鈥29
Hometown: Avon, CT
Danny Flanagan

Danny Flanagan

MCAS 鈥29
Hometown: Southbury, CT
Catherine Hulugalle

Catherine Hulugalle

CSOM 鈥29
Hometown: Waimea, Hawai'i
Sofia Lulo

Sofia Lulo

CSOM 鈥29
Hometown: Santiago, Dominican Republic
Giacomo Pili

Giacomo Pili

MCAS 鈥29
Hometown: Buffalo, NY
Charlie Shifrin

Charlie Shifrin

MCAS 鈥29
Hometown: Southborough, MA
Emmett Tolisano

Emmett Tolisano

CSOM 鈥29
Hometown: Fairfield, CT
Stephanie Venturini

Stephanie Venturini

LSEHD & MCAS 鈥29
Hometown: Milan, Italy
Luke Wagner

Luke Wagner

MCAS 鈥29
Hometown: Farmington, CT
Lauren Weideman

Lauren Weideman

MCAS 鈥29
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Ryan Zuccarello

Ryan Zuccarello

MCAS 鈥29
Hometown: Whitestone, NY

The Kevin M. Eidt Memorial Scholarship

The Kevin M. Eidt Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to the freshman in the Emerging Leader Programwhose leadership skills and potential are best represented by Boston College鈥檚 philosophies of 鈥淓ver to Excel鈥 and being 鈥淢en and Women for Others.鈥

The scholarship recipient is selected by the director of the Emerging Leader Program and announced each year, at the end-of-the-year ELP banquet.

Kevin M. Eidt was a member of the Boston College class of 2000.听A freshman in the Emerging Leader Program, Kevin died of cardiac arrest during an intramural basketball game in the second semester of his freshman year. In recognition of the tremendous impact he made on the Boston College community in such a short time, Kevin was posthumously awarded the Nicholas H. Woods Leadership Award, sponsored by the Office of Student Development.听

In addition, the Liturgical Arts Group dedicated their "I Want to Praise Your Name" CD to Kevin and the men and women's intramural basketball championship trophy is named in his honor.听This scholarship was created as a legacy to a young man who, in one semester, made a positive impact on the AV研究所 community, lived the motto "Ever to Excel" and approached every day with the exuberance and determination to live life to its fullest.

The scholarship is funded by the Kevin Eidt Fund at Boston College, which is supported by alumni contributions and grants from the Kevin M. Eidt Memorial Scholarship Fund; a 501(c)(3) publicly supported charitable organization.

2026 Award Recipient

Mary Marsalek

Mary Marsalek

Hometown: Arroyo Grande, CA

Past scholarship recipients

2025 |听Daniel Hannoush听(Loudonville, NY)

2024 | Allison Berg (Tacoma, WA)

2023 | Brody Whetzel (Salem, OR)

2022 | Aidan Mackey | (West Oneonta, NY)

2021 | Lauren Dadekian | (Upper Saddle River, NJ)

2020 | Audrey Davis | (Fanwood, NJ)

2019 | Henry Bayly | (Fort Myers, FL)

2018 | Fatoumata Sall | (New York, NY)

2018 | Noella D'Souza | (Sharon, MA)听Facilitator Award

2017 | Joan Kennedy | (San Antonio, TX)

2016 | Kandace Nguyen | (Morrero, LA)

2015 | Noah Groenewold | (Hinsdale, IL)

2014 | Alec Ellis |听(Winter Park, FL)2013 | Christopher Klotsche | (Milwaukee, WI)


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