Members of The University Honor Council

To become a member of the Honor Council, you must complete the application and undergo the rigorous selection process.

Below, find a list of our members followed by their pictures and information about them.

Aaron Roth
Lucas Blanchard
James Sharp
Ashley Miller
Sharon Roth
Scott Schlager
Melissa Roque
Elena Evans
Henry Goldberg
Leyla Mocan
Bahram Banisadr
Sophia Ciocca
Michele Fletcher
Matthew Kalmans
James Mellody
Tamara Pier
Michael Pintauro
Nikhil Rajapuram
Hunter Schlacks
Cameron Strong
Aaron Roth
  • Name: Aaron Roth
  • Position: Co-Chair
  • School: Engineering (2012)
  • Major: Electrical Engineering
  • Minors: Entrepreneurship, Nanotechnology
  • Hometown: Weston, MA
  • Other Extracurriculars: Kesher (the Reform Jewish Community), the Penn Undergraduate Math Society, the Nanotechnology Minor Executive Board, IEEE, Club Squash, Penn Environmental Group, Delta Tau Delta, UTV-13, and startups
  • Favorite Quote: "If I am like him, who will be like me?" -Yiddish Proverb
Lucas Blanchard
  • Name: Lucas Blanchard
  • Position: Co-Chair
  • School: Wharton (2012)
  • Concentration: Finance
  • Minor: Political Science
  • Hometown: Santiago, Chile
  • Other Extracurriculars: Big Brother Big Sister Program, Penn Political Review
  • Favorite Quote: "To whom much is given, much is expected."
James Sharp
  • Name: James Sharp
  • School: College of Arts and Sciences (2012)
  • Major: International Relations
  • Minors: Hispanic Studies, Economics
  • Hometown: Dallas, TX
  • Other Extracurriculars: Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Iota Rho
  • Favorite Quote: "[we] began to cross the threshold to where an institutional wildness became brotherhood." - Pat Conroy
Ashley Miller
  • Name: Ashley Miller
  • School: College of Arts & Sciences (2012)
  • Majors: Economic History, Urban Studies
  • Hometown: Boca Raton, FL
  • Other Extracurriculars: Alpha Chi Omega
Sharon Roth
  • Name: Sharon Roth
  • Position: Webmaster
  • School: Engineering (2014)
  • Major: Bioengineering
  • Minor: Cognitive Science
  • Hometown: Weston, MA
  • Other Extracurriculars: Alpha Omega Epsilon, Society of Women Engineers, Advancing Women in Engineering
  • Favorite Quote: "You never know when you are making a memory"
Scott Schlager
  • Name: Scott Schlager
  • Position: Treasurer
  • School: College of Arts and Sciences (2012)
  • Majors: Urban Studies, Political Science
  • Hometown: Weston, MA
  • Other Extracurriculars: Wharton Real Estate Club, Urban Studies Undergraduate Advisory Board, The Roosevelt Institution, Penn Microfinance
  • Favorite Quote:"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
    "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" ~Recorded c. 1175 in Old English Homilies
Melissa Roque
  • Name: Melissa Roque
  • Position: Special Events Director
  • School: College of Arts and Sciences (2013)
  • Major: Political Science
  • Minor: International Relations
  • Hometown: Parkland, FL
  • Other Extracurriculars: Kite and Key, Assistant Edditor-In-Chief of The Record, Intern at the District Attorney's Office
  • Favorite Quote: "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein
Elena Evans
  • Name: Elena Evans
  • School: Wharton (2013)
  • Concentration: Marketing and OPIM: Decisions Processes Track
  • Hometown: Aiken, South Carolina
  • Other Extracurriculars: Wharton Ambassadors, Alpha Phi, Wharton Women, MUSE
  • Favorite Quote: "Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." -Eleanor Roosevelt
Henry Goldberg
  • Name: Henry Goldberg
  • School: College of Arts and Sciences (2013)
  • Major: Communications
  • Minor: Mathematics
  • Hometown: Dallas, TX
  • Other Extracurriculars: Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, West Philadelphia Tutoring Project
  • Favorite Quote: "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
Leyla Mocan
  • Name: Leyla Mocan
  • Position: Secretary
  • School: Wharton (2014)
  • Concentration: Statistics
  • Minor: Mathematics
  • Hometown: Denver, CO / Baton Rouge, LA
  • Other Extracurriculars: Civic Scholars, Penn Club Squash
  • Favorite Quote: "Be true to thy work, thy word, and thy friend." - Henry David Thoreau
Bahram Banisadr
  • Name: Bahram Banisadr
  • School: Wharton & Engineering(2015)
  • Concentration: Management
  • Hometown: Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • Other Extracurriculars: M&T Club, Ski Team
  • Favorite Quote: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Henry David Thoreau
Sophia Ciocca
  • Name: Sophia Ciocca
  • School: College of Arts and Sciences (2014)
  • Major: Economics
  • Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
  • Other Extracurriculars: Photographer & Assistant Photo Editor at the DP, Penn Students for Christ, Keynotes, HUP Volunteer
  • Favorite Quote: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
Michele Fletcher
  • Name: Michele Fletcher
  • School: College of Arts and Sciences (2015)
  • Major: Biological Basis of Behavior
  • Hometown: Oakland, California
  • Other Extracurriculars: West Philadelphia Tutoring Project, Penn Neuroscience Society, Penn Outdoors Club
  • Favorite Quote: "There is a strength to endure everything." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Matthew Kalmans
  • Name: Matthew Kalmans
  • School: College of Arts and Sciences(2015)
  • Major: PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics)
  • Hometown: Weston, CT
  • Other Extracurriculars: Penn Democrats, The Daily Pennsylvanian
  • Favorite Quote: "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
James Mellody
  • Name: James Mellody
  • School: College of Arts and Sciences(2015)
  • Major: Undecided
  • Hometown: Rockville, Maryland
  • Other Extracurriculars: Penn Running Club
  • Favorite Quote: "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." -Abraham Lincoln
Tamara Pier
  • Name: Tamara Pier
  • School: College of Arts and Sciences(2014)
  • Major: PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics)
  • Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
  • Other Extracurriculars: Sigma Delta Tau, Think Tanks and Civil Society Program Intern, Mex@Penn Club, FocusFirst, Maimonides Leaders Fellowship
  • Favorite Quote: "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." -Coco Chanel
Michael Pintauro
  • Name: Michael Pintauro
  • School: Engineering (2015)
  • Major: Bioengineering
  • Hometown: Nashville, TN
  • Other Extracurriculars: Emed, Kite and Key (Tour Guide), Club Swimming, Penn Cheer
  • Favorite Quote: "Come and take them" - Spartan King Leonidas' reply when told to lay down his arms
Nikhil Rajapuram
  • Name: Nikhil Rajapuram
  • School: Engineering (2015)
  • Major: Bioengineering
  • Minor: Engineering Entrepreneurship
  • Hometown: Oakland, CA
  • Other Extracurriculars: Penn Men's Club Volleyball, Biomedical Engineering Society Freshman Representative
  • Favorite Quote: "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
Hunter Schlacks
  • Name: Hunter Schlacks
  • School: Engineering (2015)
  • Major: Computer Science, Bioengeering
  • Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Other Extracurriculars: Penn Men's Squash Team
  • Favorite Quote: "The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle." -Unknown
Cameron Strong
  • Name: Cameron Strong
  • School: Wharton (2015)
  • Concentration: Finance
  • Hometown: Dallas, TX
  • Other Extracurriculars:The Kite and Key Society, Wharton Women, and Wharton Undergraduate Finance Club
  • Favorite Quote: "The world's darkest elements always give rise to its greatest crusaders of light."