ELLA CULTON

bookowl13@gmail.com
The Greene School
School Code: 400254

Considered Majors: Environmental Studies, Sociology, Political Science

Curriculum: Expeditionary Learning Honors

Summer Education: Paid Laboratory Intern – University of Rhode Island Chemistry Laboratory
under Dr. Mindy Levine
2017 & 2018: June-August Full-time 4-5 days per/week (both summers)

Publications: Chemosensors Journal, 2017 5 (4) 34

TOPIC: Towards Rational Chemosensor design through Improved
Understanding of Experimental Parameter Variation and Tolerance in
Cyclodextrin-Promoted fluorescence detection

Awards: * National Honor Society, 2018

* Rhode Island Civic Leadership Award, May 2018
* Community Service Appreciation Award, 2016 & 2018
For field work in Flint, Michigan
* Allie Alvarez Travel Scholarship Environmental Trip to Scandinavia, 2018
* Green Schools Conference and Expo Leader Award, 2019
* Lieutenant Governer’s Award for Leadership, 2019

School Leadership: Founder: Established a Global News Sharing Forum, Window of the Week –
Emphasizing Social Justice and Environmental Issues such as Me Too, Net
Neutrality, Climate Change, Gun Control, Equal Rights
Secretary, Student Government
Activism: People’s Climate Change March, Washington, DC
Gun Control March, Providence, RI

Community * Westerly Land Trust – Annual fundraising dinner: set up, decorations, serving
Service: meals 2016, 2017, and 2018
* Flint, Michigan Service Learning Trip – 2017 and 2018
Gathered supplies and bottled water to bring to families in Flint
* Camp Invention,- Created and supervised science-based activities - ages 7 & 8
* Literacy Volunteer, Washington County, RI

Music: Piano 11 years

Foreign Language: Spanish – Mexican Intensive Lang. Program & Arts Immersion

Work / Paid Watch Hill Vegetable Farm Stand, Co-Manager July- August 2016
8am – 5pm Managed social media accounts, worked as
cashier, organized farmer’s schedules, managed financial accounts

Environmental Sweden, Denmark, Norway – School environmental learning trip 2018

Travel: Flint, Michigan 2017 & 2018
Australia- Hiked the rain forests

Additional Travel: Mexico, New Zealand, Canada, Great Britain, Scotland