University at Buffalo (UB)
GGS alumna continues to make a difference
Right away, Graduate School of Education school counseling student Joanna Saintil makes it clear she would not be here if it weren’t for GSE faculty member Nathan Daun-Barnett — who fired her from a job she loved.
“The question Dr. Nate asked me right away was, ‘How do you want to make a difference?’” says Saintil, who is taking her undergraduate degree from the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and enhancing it by entering UB’s counseling, school and educational psychology program. “And that question forced me to think. Hmm. I want to have an effect on students from the same background as me. Students that people believe aren’t worth coming to UB.”