Stanford sophomore recognized on ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’

Stanford sophomore JACKIE ROTMAN was recognized last month on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew. On the show’s “Champions for Charity” episode, Poreotics, the show’s latest winning dance crew, dedicated its performance to Rotman and presented her with a big $10,000 check to support Everybody Dance Now!, a program for youth in Santa Barbara that Rotman started when she was 14.

And speaking of reality TV talent, JORDIN SPARKS, winner of the sixth season of American Idol, will play Nina Rosario in the Broadway musical In the Heights, which explores the lives of Dominican American residents in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. The character of Nina is the first in her family to go to college – Stanford – but drops out after she gets overwhelmed working two jobs to pay her way.