BYUSA

Jessica Witt
Vice President of Campus Activities

Hometown: Livermore, CA
    
Major: Communications: Public Relations
    
Minor: Sociology    

Favorite Hobbies: Cooking, being outdoors, people watching, listening to music, talking to friends, and reading.

Why are you at BYUSA?
"I believe that serving in BYUSA is a great way to give back to a university that gives me so much. Through my experiences in BYUSA, I have also gained practical leadership skills that I would have never learned anywhere else. In addition, the people in BYUSA are some of the best I have ever met—they are amazing ambitious people truly wanting to make a difference."    

Favorite Quote(s):
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt
 

Jackie Bartell
Executive Director of Event Lead Training  

Hometown: Bakersfield, CA
    
Major: Social Work
    
Minor: Family History
    
Favorite Hobbies: Eating dessert (anything chocolate), reading, family history, playing games, watching college football and more!
   
Why are you at BYUSA? "I am here because I love being surrounded by so many amazing people and having the opportunity to serve with them."

Favorite Quote(s): "Barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon." -Masahide

Allyson Berbert
Executive Director of Event Planning

Hometown: Centerville, UT
    
Major: Nursing
    
Minor: None.
    
Favorite Hobbies: Finding cool music, watching random movies, talking about anything, baking bread, playing volleyball, soccer and tennis, eating poptarts, being indecisive, having a crush on every boy, and otterpops.
    
Favorite Principle: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -Henry David Thoreau

Why are you at BYUSA? "I love understanding and connecting with people and then using that connection to serve and help them. I am here to gain these and other skills that will empower me to better serve others in the future."

Favorite Quote(s): "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody." -JD Salinger, Franny and Zooey
 

Brett Zobell
Executive Director of Campus Activities

Hometown: Orem, UT    

Major: Business Management

Minor: None.
    
Favorite Hobbies: Snowboarding, wakeboarding, recreational sports.

Favorite Principle: Always do your best.

Why are you at BYUSA? "I love to serve others and be involved with great organizations."

Favorite Quote(s): "Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." –Albert Einstein

Kelly Lorimer
Executive Director of Promotions

Hometown: Riverton, Wyoming    

Major: Visual Arts
    
Minor: None.
    
Favorite Hobbies: Singing, painting, spending time with my friends, eating chocolate!
    
Favorite Principle: Be strong enough in being yourself, so that you have the capacity to love others and look for good in everything.

Why are you at BYUSA? "To serve students through a school funded program. To work with other students who believe in the same cause."

Favorite Quote(s): "Never settle for being 'good',Never settle for being 'the best', Only settle when you have reached your full potential." –Everett Befus

Thomas Shaffer
Executive Director of Human Resources

Hometown: Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania    

Major: Business
    
Minor: None.
    
Favorite Hobbies: Jumping, ping pong, day trading, dancing, sales.
     
Why are you at BYUSA? "To serve students through a school funded program. To work with other students who believe in the same cause."

Favorite Quote(s): "A leader is not one who can do the work of 100, it is one who can get 100 to work." - Anonymous