Vadim Kogan

<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><br></font></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">My name is Vadim Kogan. I'm a Senior at Illinois Wesleyan University. I have always been a curious person, and enjoy learning and sharing information that gives me a better view of myself and my surroundings. Over my college career, Biology, supplemented with a random array of liberal arts courses, has fulfilled this curiosity pretty well. After college, I hope to attend medical school</p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">My family and I immigrated to America in 1994, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Admitted into the country as refugees, without money or knowledge of English, my parents showed me in those first few years how, with the right mindset and hard work, dreams could be achieved. We learned how to assimilate together (albeit with me learning the fastest) and still talk about our first five years in our one bedroom apartment in Chicago with fondness.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">I have never owned a car, yet have been cycling every summer since the beginning of high school. I like to keep active and enjoy running and swimming, and picked up rock climbing and longboarding during my time studying abroad in New Zealand.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Two formative experiences in high school drove me to become involved in human rights and global health. The first was during my Junior year, in which my grandfathers recounted firsthand the horrors of the Holocaust during an interview for a scholarship paper (they were prisoners as adolescents). The second was my exposure to the then ongoing genocide in Darfur. I was deeply disturbed by their stories and by the historical repetition of genocide, and joined the Save Darfur Coalition the same year. During college, I became a member of Amnesty International at my University. After learning more about the AIDS pandemic and hearing of its horrifying health consequences in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing nations of the world, I became interested in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. When I caught word of the Ride Against AIDS, I immediately responded with interest and applied. Now here I am, cycling across the country with five other passionate people, taking donations, educating people, and devoting my time, intellect and strength to one of the most pressing health issues of our time.</p></span>

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