WHITEWATER, WISCONSIN (April 2, 2025) — Sarah Prigge from Port Byron, Illinois, who is studying Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, is a peer mentor for the 2024-25 academic year.
Peer mentors serve as a resource to new students during their first semester at UW-Whitewater, leading them through the Warhawk Welcome, joining them in their New Student Seminar section, and checking in individually. Throughout the fall semester, peer mentors remain in contact with new students and help them feel at home on campus.
Working out of the First Year Experience office, peer mentors develop leadership, communication, and group-facilitation skills through the program.
Transfer orientation leaders for the fall of 2024 included Katelyn Esser, Ally Smith, Brody Smith, and Cory Stuard on the Whitewater campus, and Solomon Foley and Ky McCombe on the Rock County campus. Spring 2025 lead mentors, who assist with peer-mentor selection and recruitment processes and training for fall 2025, include Maddy Anderson, Kaitlin Geisler, Emma Johnson, Madyson King, Mitchell Mancusi, Bailey Quinn, Shalomi Sahabandhu, Lillie Schildbach, and Kalena Winter.
Students typically apply and interview for the position in the spring semester and begin the position in the fall. A limited number of peer mentors are hired to work in the spring semester. For more information, visit edu/fye.
