Summer at the Center Administrative Team

The Administrative Team is responsible for student life on the Macalester campus. In addition to serving as full time dormitory staff, the administrative team are also accomplished members of the speech and debate community. They serve as additional resources for students during free time and provide additional supervision during the instructional day. All members of the administrative team will be accessible to students throughout the institute and at least one member of the team is on-call 24 hours a day to take care of any emergency. In addition to ensuring student safety, the administrative team also ensures that students have a fun and enjoyable time on campus by hosting several special events throughout the institute.

 

Haley Chamberlain, Director of Residential Life

 

Haley earned a biology degree and a fine arts minor (emphasis on acting performance) from the College of Charleston, SC. She began to reconcile the two with NASA-sponsored children's shows, and this led to her first professional year of directing and touring with the Missoula Children's Theatre in 2000. She has been professionally acting and touring ever since, directing and playing to over 500,000 kids aged 5-17. She is currently touring Twin Cities Schools with Stages Theatre and acting in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" at Caliban Company. Haley has taught acting technique workshops to teens all over the country, and was the director of performance at the Blast! summer camp at home in the Twin Cities. She continues to teach weekly acting and life skills classes at JRP, Inc in Bloomington, MN- working toward helping kids build personal confidence through performance.

 

Lindsey Andersen, Executive Assistant

 

Ms. Andersen is currently a Journalism major at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. She was a member of the Apple Valley Speech Team for four years and debated for two years. She qualified to nationals twice and attended the Catholic Nationals where she placed in the top twenty. She was in the demonstration round at the TOC Public Forum Round.

She is currently the director of forensics at Des Moines North High School, this is her second year at the Center.

 

Jennie Keohane, Executive Assistant

 

Ms. Keohane is currently a Communications student at Northwestern University in Chicago. As a competitor, she enjoyed success on the local and national levels in LD debate and speech events. In 2004, she was a finalist at the NCFL National Tournament and semifinalist at NFL National Tournament in Student Congress. Jennie also received 6th place in International Legislative Debate at NFLs. She continued competing in forensics at the collegiate level and is qualified to the National Forensic Association's national tournament in 3 IE events and LD debate.