Anastasia Caulfield

Anastasia Caulfield of Cranford, N.J. is an International Studies major with a minor in Human Rights and Genocide Studies.

On campus, Anastasia has been elected for Student Government three times, serving as Student Liaison to the Women’s Center and Student Conduct.  She represented the College at the National Diversity Leadership Conference and served as a student representative to Ramapo’s Schedule Change Committee. She has also volunteered with student voter registration drives on campus and for many Ramapo community events.

Off-campus, she enjoys being politically active and working to promote issues that ensure rights and protections for all. She also enjoys volunteering in community events aimed at helping children.  

Anastasia expresses her creative side through photography.

Awarded Scholarships

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2018

Hirschman, Cara Mychelle Memorial Scholarship

In the Spring of 1996, Ramapo College student Cara Mychelle Hirschman was ecstatic to learn that she had been named to the Dean’s List. The transcript for that semester hung proudly on her mom’s refrigerator and demonstrated a huge accomplishment for Cara, who had a learning disability. She spoke openly about the academic struggles she faced and the compensatory strategies she employed.

Though she was declined enrollment at other colleges, Ramapo recognized the potential in this caring, intelligent, dynamic and hard-working young woman. Cara worked closely with her counselor in the Office of Specialized Services, Ramona Kopacz, and succeeded in her studies while becoming an active member of the campus community. Cara was an officer in the Marketing Club and a tutor for the Office of Specialized Services. She volunteered for the Special Olympics and held a coop position at Trucolor Lab as a customer service representative and product advisor.

Tragically, only months after receiving her Dean’s List honors, Cara was killed in a car accident at age 21. The Eleanor B. Reiner Foundation, where Cara’s mother was a board member, provided annual scholarship gifts in Cara’s memory, and in 1997 made a substantial gift to permanently endow these awards.

Hirschman Scholarships are awarded to students of good academic standing who have a documented learning disability and, like Cara, are involved on campus and in the community.