Youth Empowerment: Breaking Barriers, Building Community
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Visiting Lecturer in Psychology and Education, Mt. Holyoke College
I teach in the Psychology and Education Department at Mt. Holyoke College, and I offer courses on social justice issues in Education.
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Callaloo for the Community: Food Justice, Civic Engagement, and Youth Education, Gender Studies Major
This summer Jenna served as the Bike and School Garden Leader for Groundwork Somerville’s environmental and urban agriculture youth jobs program “the Green Team” for high school youth in Somerville, MA. She was responsible for leading the youth crews in agricultural and environmental...
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How Two Summers Changed My Career Path, Art History and Psychology Major
Liz worked with a non-profit called Elm City Internationals in New Haven, Connecticut for the past two summers. Her role as an intern included working one-on-one with the boys, making worksheets for the books the younger cohort read, helping the high school boys write social justice...
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Harlem Children's Zone/The Power of Non-Profit Organizations, Psychology and Education Major
Imagine entering a program at the age of eight years old and then thirteen years later interning for the same program in your own community. This summer Brandy Williamson interned at Harlem Children’s zone, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to disrupt the cycle of generational...
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Friday October 20, 2017 12:30pm - 1:25pm EDT
Kendade 305