About Your 4D Peer Mentor
All new DU students are paired with a 4D Peer Mentor, a current DU student who specializes in supporting new student college transition through mentorship and fostering a sense of belonging and community during your first year.
Your 4D Peer Mentor along with other DU staff and faculty will aid in your college experience to advance your intellectual growth, pursue a career and life of purpose, promote well-being, and explore your character – the 4D Experience.
Your 4D Peer Mentor will help you to:
- Learn about student expectations and responsibilities of becoming a DU community member
- Explore & access resources and opportunities that support student's academic, social, and wellness goals
- Develop skills centered on self-awareness and engagement with the diverse identities, perspectives, & experiences of others
- Foster a sense of belonging and connection to the DU and the greater Denver community
- Have fun while sharing your love for DU!
You will be introduced to your 4D Peer Mentor in person at Discoveries Orientation. To find who your 4D Peer Mentor is, look at the chart below!
4D Peer Mentors support Discoveries Orientation, FSEM courses, First Ascent experience and first-year programming.
FSEM Title | Faculty | 4D Peer Mentor(s) |
| With and Without Nature | Brad Benz | Aaron Stoa & Phoebe Bono |
| Thinking 101 | Bud Bilanich | Jeremy Plax |
| Science at the boundary: A look into the nanoworld | Maria Calbi | Ansel Goode |
| Disability in Fiction | Angelo Castagnino | Ally Staples |
| Fracturing Fairy Tales: Moving Beyond a Simple Story | April Chapman-Ludwig | Maile Jackowski |
| Bathrooms as Political Spaces | Sara Chatfield | Daniel Meekin |
| Can TikTok Change the World? | Lynn Schofield Clark | Ian Rosenshine |
| Queer Literature | Patrick Cottrell | Lily Schneider |
| Poetry and the Public: Off the Page and Into the Streets | David Daniels | Victoria Arias |
| Exploring Front Range Landscapes | Mike Daniels | Aderyn Ketchum |
| Mexican American History and Culture | Elizabeth Escobedo | Nora Hammond |
| Smartphone Sensors and App Design | Xin Fan | Lainey Harrington |
| Finding Feminism in the 21st Century | Lindsey Feitz | Libby McKinnon |
| The Heart of Mathematics | Kelly Flaherty | Sophie Trojanowski |
| Graphic Novels and Global Perspectives | Keith Gehring | Claire Hicks |
| Memory: Self/Public/Community | Robert Gilmor | Maddie Gauna |
| Digital Politics and Political Engagement | Esteban Gomez | Miranda Curl |
| Feminism and Liberatory Politics and Praxis | Cassandra Gonzalez | Patience Hinojos |
| Youth Cultures: Inequalities, Resistance, and Empowerment | Hava Gordon | Sylvia Mague |
| Why names matter: Discrimination, identity, and the language of exclusion | Kathleen Guerra | Leo Murrell |
| Island Fantasies | Madoka Hammine | Noah Hecker |
| The Milky Way in Motion | Jennifer Hoffman | Kaitlyn Olson |
| The Soundtrack of a Revolution: Popular Music of the Civil Rights Movement | M. Roger Holland | Anna Parker |
| Screening Latin America- Societies in Movement | Rafael Ioris | Teagan Weindel |
| Lose Your Self, or the Ethics of Living Without a Self | Andrew Kaplan | Ivianna North |
| Trash & (Zero) Waste in a Disposable World | Megan Kelly | Peyton Eisenach |
| Constructing Sexualities: Identities, Intersections, and Inequalities | Amie Levesque | Noah Alleman |
| Media, Power & Sexualization | Rachael Liberman | Julia Schinsky |
| Resistance in the African Diaspora | Mamadou Ly | Kaliel Soya |
| Exploring Latinx Immigrants through Culture | Sergio Macías | Alex Canas |
| Neurodivergence: The Space Between Ability, Disability, and Societal Power | Brian Majestic | Piper Ross |
| European Masterpieces: “The Alienated Hero: In Search of Self” | Polina Maksimovich | Kira Frey |
| The Human Condition: A Survey Course on the Expression of Human Emotion through the Arts | Joseph Martin | Parker Ragland |
| Design Your DU: Navigating College with Purpose and Intention | Heather Martin | Orlando Mayorga |
| The Psychology of Thriving | Daniel McIntosh | Zoe Cuarto |
| Queer of Color Film | Logan Middleton | Melina Miller |
| From DNA to Diversity -and Beyond! | Julie Morris | Elliot Song |
| Buddhist Meditation: Traditional and Modern Contexts | Benjamin Nourse | Cameron Stewart |
| Leadership Lessons the Richmond Way | Kathie Novak | Koby Horowitz |
| Meatification & the Ecological Hoofprint | Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong | Aimee Harling |
| Wealth and Income Inequality: Ideas, History, and Debate | Daniel Ossa | Adrian Blair & Amri Muppala |
| The Power of Language: How Words Shape Us and the World | Alfred Owusu-Ansah | Adam Rosvold |
| Who Do You Think You Are?: Performing Characters in Film and Literature | Anne Penner | AnaBelle Harris |
| True Crime Media: Journalism, Justice, or Just Entertainment? | LP Picard | Brayden Roe |
| Biotechnology and Me | Yan Qin | Anaiya Huerta |
| Tabletop Games: Define & Design | David Riche | Lily Pound |
| Understanding Attention | Christy Rossi | Aaron Armondino |
| Understanding Lincoln | Susan Schulten | Aidan Boudreau |
| Language in Society | Angela Sowa | Zoe Gugelman |
| Do You Like Scary Movies? Contemporary Horror Cinema and Society | Emily Sposeto | Rebecca Tintle |
| Reading Maps: Literature, Culture, and Cartography | Geoffrey Stacks | Abby Sprinz |
| Pacific Century -- America, China, and Competition for Global Leadership | Jing Sun | Derek Morgan |
| Who Gets to Speak?: Democracy and Discourse in the Modern Public Square | Dheepa Sundaram | Augi Steele |
| Revolution and Revolutionaries in Latin America | Matthew Taylor | Lexie Hirai |
| Women's Work | Tamara Trafton | Sophia Herman |
| Ciphers from ancient to modern times | Petr Vojtechovsky | Tecoa Jankowski |
| Why can’t we all get along? Leadership For Peace | Joe Walsh | Jamie Damewood |
| Coming of Age: a Personal and Literary Journey | Susan Walter | Ava Pauley |
| Art, Symbols, and Visual Literacy | Chinn Wang | Arlo Frost |
| Sci-Phi: Science and Philosophy Through Science Fiction | Dacen Waters | Chase Conklin |
| The Art of Slowness: Living, Thinking, Being | Kate Willink | Raven Meyers |
| Mountains of the Mind | Wilfried Wilms | Owen Charles |
| An Introduction to Mathematical Modeling | Mei Yin | Oscar Hayes-Fegley |
Transfer 4D Peer Mentors
Josephina Lamptey |
Madalyn O'Harren |
Megan Drugan |
Natalie Hultquist |
Remington Schmidt |
Shannon Cline |
Ariana Romero |