ML chooses Junior Commissioners for 2013-14
The Mt. Lebanon Commission has selected Mt. Lebanon High School students Mira Shenouda and Danielle Deiseroth as junior commissioners for the coming school year.
Mira, a junior with an unweighted GPA of 4.0, will serve for the fall semester. She is active in Girl Scouts and in the GirlGov program sponsored by the Women and Girls Foundation. She volunteers at Asbury Heights, is a member of student council, throws javelin for the girls track team, has been a member of the marching band, and is now a Rockette. She says her interest in government was spiked by the contrast between the freedom of speech Mt. Lebanon residents have enjoyed, however contentious, during the high school renovation process, and the Egyptian Revolution, where people took to the streets “in hopes of establishing a system they can submit to and believe in.” A member of the French and Arab clubs, Mira holds dual citizenship, attended third grade in Cairo and many of her father’s relatives live in Egypt.
Deiseroth, a senior with an unweighted GPA of 4.0, calls herself a “self-proclaimed politics nerd whose most frequented websites are CNN and The Atlantic.” She has been an officer of the student council, works with the Best Buddies program, has been a winning member of the forensics team, is a cheerleader, and has completed 150 hours of volunteer service in preparation for the St. Lucy’s Auxiliary to the Blind’s Medallion Ball. Last year, she attended a biomedical engineering program at Columbia University; she also attended the Westinghouse Science Honors Institute on Saturdays during last school year.
Junior commissioners serve for one semester and are selected after applying and being interviewed by the five commissioners. During their terms, they attend regular meetings, reporting on issues of concern to students and taking back valuable information about local government to the student body.