Ellie Bridge is a rising senior in Winthrop House, originally from Belmont, Massachusetts. She is studying History and Literature in the America field, with a focus in African and African American Studies, and has also completed a citation in French. On campus she serves as President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Harvard's mixed-voice choir, where she oversees community development and numerous choral masterworks and projects as part of the nonprofit arts organization. Ellie is also a Peer Advising Fellow to first year students and has spent many summers working with schools and summer enrichment programs in different Boston communities. This summer, Ellie is working for State Senator Eric Lesser where she is eager to learn the power and challenges behind state government and to explore political and legal avenues for her passion for social and education reform.