Dan Teran is a professional in their field. They is proficient in German. Colleagues describe them as "Dan showed great initiative and leadership in launching the Sustainable Hopkins Infrastructure Program (SHIP), which has turned into one of the most successful programs on campus. He was a pleasure to work with, very dependable, and a great strategic thinker. I would recommend him highly." and "While a student at Johns Hopkins, Dan was a regular on Dean's List. He was also an active leader in student activities -- but not just to burnish his resume. He was elected president of his class during his freshman year. He could easily have won reelection, but decided not to so that he could work as a volunteer at a non-profit organization in Baltimore. Dan's work as an unpaid intern at the Citizens Planning and Housing Association was so impressive that the organization hired him as a paid part-time staff member. His expanded duties included lobbying state legislators in Annapolis on a variety of issues including public transportation, housing policy, During this period, Dan was enrolled in one of my classes, In spite of his heavy work schedule, he was always prepared for class and had intelligent things to say about the assigned readings. One of them was a very difficult essay translated into English from the German in which it was originally written. Dan, it turns out, is fluent in German. He went back to the original source"