Sirine Benali

Class:
Sophomore
Height:
5-4
Hometown:
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.
High School:
Manchester Essex Regional

Notes: Sailing became a varsity sport at Brown prior to the 2020-21 academic year.

2020-21: Did not compete … Season shortened due to COVID-19.

Before Brown: Started as a skipper at MERHS … Tallied multiple top-five finishes at local regattas … Competed at Newport-Bermuda 2018 Offshore, Marblehead-Halifax 2017 Offshore, and Vineyard 2017 Offshore … Served as Class President for four years from 2015-19 … Acted as Editor-in-Chief of school newspaper … Worked as a Research Intern at the Zaman Lab at Boston University.

Personal: Sirine is the daughter of Amel and Karim Benali … Has one younger sibling, Lynn … Born in Paris, France … Plays the piano … Speaks French and Spanish … Public Health concentrator on a pre-medical track.

Why Brown? “What first really attracted me to Brown University was the open curriculum; as a global health enthusiast, I was looking for a college experience that would truly be able to give me the interdisciplinary learning and tools that are necessary in the field of global health and be able to explore these topics outside the confines of general requirements, major restrictions, etc. At Brown, I truly saw that the possibilities to do so with the open curriculum would be right at my fingertips as an undergraduate student, and provide me with a diverse understanding of the issues that I will face later on in the field. Furthermore, the environment at Brown was exactly what I was looking for: students were engaged, passionate, and driven while remaining easygoing, compassionate, and down-to-earth. As an undergraduate student right now, I am so happy that I chose Brown as it really went above and beyond everything I could wish for out of a college experience. Go Bears!”