Meet our Board – Active Minds at Penn State World Campus

Erica Armstrong

President

Major: Psychology

Proudest accomplishment within your PSU journey: Watching the organizations I have been involved with grow and knowing that the hard work we are putting in now will benefit the next generation of PSUWC students.

Quote to live by: “Embrace your inner radiance; like glitter, scatter joy and brilliance everywhere you journey.”

Best advice for success or well-being for others: Find your PSU family! It can be a small group or a large groups but connecting with other WC students to lean on and vent with who understand your struggles just a bit makes the journey incredible.

ena5121@psu.edu

Cassandra Barr

Immediate Past President

Cassandra is a Junior at Penn State World Campus majoring in Psychology. She intends on pursuing a PsyD after she graduates to pursue a professional career as a Clinical Psychologist. Cassandra has many years of experience working in psychiatric hospitals in both Pennsylvania and in Miami, FL. She is really interested in both Abnormal Psychology as well as Forensics Psychology. In her free time she enjoys binge watching murder documentaries, crime scene shows, baking, and online shopping. She loves spending time with her husband and their one year old son.

Carleena Stewart

Secretary

Carleena is a pursuing a bachelors’ degree at Penn State World Campus majoring in Psychology. She intends on pursuing her master’s in family therapy with a specialization in addictions. After earning her Masters’ she hopes to become a psychologist. Carleena currently works in the psychiatry department for a drug and alcohol program in Pennsylvania. In her free time, she enjoys reading about and visiting historic buildings. Carleena loves spending time giving back to her community, checking out local restaurants with her husband and 2 daughters.

Sonya Gelster

Treasurer

Reason for involvement in Active Minds – I originally got involved in Active Minds because it dealt a lot with mental health related issues and being a psychology major going into hoping to work with people with mental health issues it related to me a lot. I also have dealt with my own mental health issues as well as having some family that has had some so the club was a nice place to feel welcome.

Proudest Accomplishment within your PSU journey – I can’t say I have one proud accomplishment that I have made because I feel that I have made a few. Being on the executive board of a few clubs including Student Government are pretty great accomplishments as well as making it almost all the way through my degree. I have also had some other students tell me I have gave them a lot of encouragement, motivation and support to try new things and push themselves break out of their shell so that’s a great accomplishment as well because I know I’ve helped others.

Best advice for success or well-being for others – Never feel like you know everything because you are always teachable. Always be kind because you never know what anyone is going through and as you work your way up you can always come down just as fast. To be successful you just have to work hard and believe in yourself and treat people the way that you would want to be treated because we are all equal and you don’t get to the top by treating people badly.

Quote to live by – “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou

Lauren Wellar

Public Relations

Lauren is a senior majoring in Digital Multimedia Design at Penn State World Campus. She is passionate about helping with important causes, learning languages, watching international shows and movies, paddleboarding, creating websites, managing blogs and caring for her puppy, Jax.

“I love making the most out of life’s many opportunities and I can’t wait to see what we can achieve together in the upcoming year!” – Lauren

Quote to live by: “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking” -Brian Tracy

William Horton, Ph.D.

Faculty Advisor

Leslie Shively

Faculty Advisor