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CE Fellows:
Beyond Boundaries
Winter 2021

If you would like to update your profile email us at cefellowsteam@gmail.com

Maria Alejandro

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University of Texas at San Antonio

San Antonio

I enjoy helping people learn about sustainability, community engagement and service learning

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about better organisation, SDGs, paperless living, placed-based community engagement.

Jennifer Allen

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Whatcom Community College; SGI-USA

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how I can transform my environment (work, neighborhood, community) at the deepest core level through meaningful and compassionate dialogue.

Caroline Allen

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Sydney, Australia

I enjoy helping people learn about sustainability, community engagement and service learning.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about better organization, SDGs, paperless living, place-based community engagement.

Jonathon Allen

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Western Sydney University

Sydney, Australia

I enjoy helping people learn about their role and impact in the world, sustainability and community engagement, and how they can create better futures.

Lately, I've been interested in developing future leaders.

Emily Anderson

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Oregon State University PhD Candidate & Whitman College staff

Mosier, Oregon

I enjoy helping people learn about Community engagement!

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about strategies for institutionalizing community engagement on campuses.

Jennifer Ashby

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Asotin County Library

Clarkston,WA

I enjoy helping people learn about how libraries can change their lives and essential oils.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about social justice.

Stacey Baker

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Mid-Columbia Libraries

Benton City

I enjoy helping people learn about our library!

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about misinformation/disinformation; birds.

Natalie Baloy

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Salish Sea Institute & Transboundary Initiatives, WWU

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about our relationships with the places we live.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about Intertidal life.

Abby Beissinger

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Dudek

Pasadena

I enjoy helping people learn about the many ways that plants impact and improve our lives.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about city planning, city histories, and the ways that being rooting in a landscape influence policy changes and city management strategies.

Celeste Bennett

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Jefferson County Rural Library District, Association of Bookmobile & Outreach Services

Port Hadlock, WA USA

I enjoy helping people learn about how to find, navigate and apply resources to improve their daily lives.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about building programs across county agencies: identifying and overcoming barriers.

Becca Berkey

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Northeastern University

Boston, MA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about ways to connect their deepest passions, skills, and values with the goals of their communities.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about the ways our community engagement work connects with broader social justice movements, particularly those rooted in antiracism, as well as the ways that I can work with all of our constituencies to best prepare our network to realize these connections.

Amanda Bevington Drungil

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Utah State University

Currently in Logan, Utah/From Cleveland, Ohio

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about myself. Is that weird? I feel that the more I am able to learn about myself and be in tune with my biases, beliefs, values, etc. the stronger I will be with my collaborations, reflections, engagement, connecting with others and navigating challenges.

Kamea Black

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Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about internal or external barriers that may be impeding their ability to reach their goals. In my work with students at Western I guide them through impediments that might impact project viability. Outside of my institution, I like to help people learn how to create healthy connections to food through gardening and scratch cooking.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about professional coaching practices.

Caitlyn Blair

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Western Washington University student

Bellingham WA/Hometown Parachute CO

I enjoy helping people learn about marine organisms, settler colonial history, and the Salish Sea.

Lately, I have been interested in learning more about critical pedagogy and the education system in America.

Jessie Bloss

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Spring Church Bellingham

Bellingham, Washington

I enjoy helping people learn about how to bridge divergent worlds inside and outside of the Church.

Lately, I have been interested in learning more about the practical implications of permaculture design, raising geese, and oil painting.

Anna Booker

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Whatcom Community College

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about U.S. History

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about place-based, experiential learning in and around the Salish Sea.

Lorrie Bortuzzo

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Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about the Four Agreements (Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best)

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about better ways to build and nurture our relationships in this virtual environment.

Richard Bray

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IUPUI

Indianapolis

I enjoy helping people learn about whatever interests them.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how my golf swing can be improved to hit the ball consistently.

Pat Burnett

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Whatcom Community College

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves and their passions.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about pressure canning and long term food storage.

Alexis Burton

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Cedar Tree Montessori School

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about integrating their passions into their work

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about comprehensively understanding what it takes to get new organizations off the ground successfully.

Jennifer Cadero-Gillette

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Center for Community Research & Engagement, UMass Lowell; Cultural Agents Initiative, Harvard University

Lowell, MA

I enjoy helping people learn about art, community and the empowerment of their intersections.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about art interventions and global health.

Julia Caldwell

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Drew University

Madison, NJ

I enjoy helping people learn about one another and how to care for themselves and others.

I have been interested in learning about how to be more active in social justices causes and how to create an impact and educate myself on social issues.

Katrina Carabba

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Whatcom County Library System

Acme, Washington

I enjoy helping people learn about what their local public library has to offer.

I have been interested in learning about bringing diverse personalities and workstyles together as a team working toward a common goal.

Crystal Cardona

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Saint Martin's University

Lacey, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about service within our community.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about BIPOC/ Immigrate stories/ empowered women.

Chris Casquilho

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WWU College of Fine and Performing Arts; Common Threads Farm

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about how things work.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about what motivates people to participate in the community.

Cary Chadwick

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University of Connecticut

Haddam, Connecticut

I enjoy helping people learn about the power of maps and geographic information.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to change power structures.

Laura Cisneros

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University of Connecticut, Dept. of Natural Resources & the Environment

Storrs, CT, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about local conservation efforts they can engage in their hometowns.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about co-design community conservation projects with diverse community stakeholders that are designed genuinely serve the community.

Jason Clark

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Northwest Credible Messenger

Renton, WA / Detroit, MI

I enjoy helping people learn about unlocking their leadership and transformational mentorship.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about 1) Storytelling, 2) Doing the internal and community work to support the next generation to overcome toxic masculinity

Sharyn Colon

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Drew University

Summit, NJ

I enjoy helping people learn about their small actions can change the world.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about service learning and community engagement.

Jenn Cook

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Western Washington University

Sedro-Woolley, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about new ways of 'doing.'

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about connecting students to community organizations.

Jennifer Cooper

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Western Carolina University- Center for Community Engagement & Service Learning

Sylva, NC

I enjoy helping people learn about the bigger picture behind the service & civic engagement projects we organize.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to work with other agencies to manage volunteers for our region's COVID vaccination sites.

Michael Cox

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Whatcom County Library System

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about community resources available to them.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about building connections in an online world.

Noelani Cubillos-Sanchez

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University of Texas at San Antonio - Center for Civic Engagement

San Antonio, TX

I enjoy helping people learn about how to be their own advocate.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about anything and everything! :)

Sara Curley

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Drew University (student), Civic Scholar

Norristown, PA

I enjoy helping people learn about issues and subjects I care about or have direct experience with, including adoption, mental health, and multi-cultural living.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how other states/countries can have subcultures within a larger culture, and the friction that can arise from that.

Brian Davenport

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Eastern Washington University

Spokane, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves as leaders!

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about what community really is and how we can create it better.

Karni Dechoian

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Drew University

Parsippany

I enjoy helping people learn about the fascinating ways in which science and the world woks from a scientific standpoint.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about COVID-19, and the ways in which it affects the human body mentally and physically.

Dave Dickson

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UConn CLEAR/Extension

Glastonbury, CT

I enjoy helping people learn about conservation, environmental protection, land use, DIY mapping.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about environmental justice and how I can support that work.

Emily Donlon

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Notre Dame of Maryland University

Baltimore, Maryland / Danville, Kentucky

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves and what makes them feel alive.

 

Lately, I've been interested in further integrating service-learning and community-based learning into our curriculum.

Tiago Duarte

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University of Ottawa, Curling Canada

Gatineau

I enjoy helping people learn about learning in sports.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about behaviour change.

Justine Duquette

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Buffalo, NY

I enjoy helping people learn about simple changes within their community that can make big impacts.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about the new needs of the community and how it's shifted during the pandemic.

Kirsten Egerstrom

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Whatcom Community College

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about critical thinking, and how to question one's own beliefs, values, and assumptions.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to create service-learning opportunities for students by connecting students with local non-profits and community-based organizations.

Suneeta Eisenberg

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Whatcom Community College

Philadelphia, PA

I enjoy helping people learn about permaculture and worms for composting food scrapes

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about student engagement and diversity at WWU

Effie Eisses

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Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about the resources available through WWU's Career Services Center.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to effectively listen, hear, and advance a deeper understanding of and engagement with place.

Richard Ellis

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Washburn University

Topeka, KS

I enjoy helping people learn about social Justice and Income Inequality.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about teaching political action and social change.

Erin Rose Ellison

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California State University, Sacramento

Santa Cruz, CA

I enjoy helping people learn about their potential to build collective power to change inequitable social conditions!

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to do community-engaged learning and scholarship during COVID19/remotely.

Todd Elsworth

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Recreation Northwest

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about how to play outdoors and enjoy nature.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about Cyrus Gates and Woodstock Farm

Britta Eschete

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Western Washington University

Mount Vernon, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about how to actively participate in their community -learning about local resources, natural places, events and volunteering!

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to successfully commit to learning another language.

Doug Fenton

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Trustee - Islands Trust, Penelakut Canoe Family (White Feather - token settler in the canoe).

Thetis Island, BC

I enjoy helping people learn about the interconnectedness of our environment.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about traditional knowledge - how this worldview sees the world.

Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino

Fresno State Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning

Fresno, CA

I enjoy helping people learn about their passions and how those can propel them throughout their lives to grow and prosper.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about new developments in the fields of nutrition and fitness that can lead to a healthier life.

Katie Flowers

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Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Geneva, NY

I enjoy helping people learn about AmeriCorps VISTA alumnae, Geneva Reads (community literacy coalition)

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about social mobility related to college attendance, loved Paul Tough's new book.

Camelia Fowler

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CSUSB

San Bernardino, CA / Pomona, CA

I enjoy helping people learn about what resources are available to them at little to no cost that may benefit their family, their life, or their current situation.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about best practices in community engagement.

Eveily Freeman

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Muhlenberg College

Allentown, PA

I enjoy helping people learn about interconnection.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about inter and intra personal grace (and loom weaving!).

Nicole Freidenfelds

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University of Connecticut

Storrs, CT

I enjoy helping people learn about small ways they can make a positive impact on their local environment

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about strategies to engage more people with the outdoors

Kindra Galan

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CIELO

Olympia/Seattle

I enjoy helping people learn about different structures and how we can advocate for one another.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about having better communication skills and balancing work.

Hanako Gavia

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Butler University

Indianapolis, Indiana

I enjoy helping people learn about the importance of community engagement.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about ways that community engagement impact learning in general.

Daniel Geiter

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Whitworth University

Spokane, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about the ways to be engaged in healthy relationships.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to better engage with people on positions that we fundamentally disagree on.

Alarie Gibbs

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University of North Florida

Jacksonville, FL

I enjoy helping people learn about designing community based transformational learning activities.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about engaging community partners

Melissa Gilbert

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Otterbein University

Westerville

I enjoy helping people learn about innovative community engagement models.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about virtual volunteerism.

Mona Gonzalez

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Mid-Columbia Libraries

Pasco

I enjoy helping people learn about EVERYTHING!! I can't think of just one thing....

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about strengthening lasting community collaborations.

Patti Gorman

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Seattle Central College

Seattle, WA

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Gail Goulet

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Western Washington University

Blaine, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves, how they learn, and their environments

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about Boundary Bay and the Salish Sea (ongoing), especially pre-colonization and a return to optimal regenerational practices.

Daniel Grant

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Harvard University

Bozeman, Montana

I enjoy helping people learn about multiracial pasts and civic futures in the American West.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to create space for authentic dialogue across racial and rural-urban divides.

Liz Grewal

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Oakland Unified School District

Hayward, CA

I enjoy helping people learn about the educator and advocates within themselves.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to align common core and NGSS curriculum to projects which allow for student creativity and engaging students in activism and social movements.

Samantha Hale

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The RE Store, RE Sources

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about the world around them and what role they can play in building healthy and engaged communities.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about emotional intelligence and how it can support personal and professional relationships.

Mary Halterman

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Timberland Regional Library

Belfair, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about the world and those in it.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about Intersectional feminism.

Per Hammer

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J.P.Morgan Chase & Co.

Glasgow, Scotland

I enjoy helping people learn about active and vibrant Communities of Practice.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about the intersection of "community", "community of practice", and "employee engagement".

Laurel Hammond

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Western Washington University

Ferndale, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about crafting questions that lead to creative dialogue. 

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about ways to connect with women investors.

Nancy Hankel

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Miami, FL

I enjoy helping people learn about how to use data to improve practices.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about ways that schools can support students and teachers during the pandemic that have been proven to be effective.

Madeline Harmon

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Reed College; Portland Mental Health & Wellness

Portland, OR

I enjoy helping people learn about how to connect to their bodies, the land and each other.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about interpersonal neurobiology as well as better understanding land trusts.

Kelly Hart

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Allied Arts of Whatcom County

Bellingham/ Tacoma

I enjoy helping people learn about the arts and how they play a role in creating community.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how the arts can unify and advocate.

Daisy Hartman

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Whatcom Intergenerational High School

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about social justice, systemic racial inequities and privilege, non-profit social media management, the realities of people experiencing homelessness, gen Z perspective on current events

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about community outreach and collaboration, environmental justice, law (the legal side of social justice movements, lobbying for change, etc)., trauma informed care/working with youth

Bradley Hartsell

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Emory & Henry College

Bristol, TN

I enjoy helping people learn about helpful facts and resources in line with their interests and pursuits.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about climate justice and intentional virtual service.

Shannon He

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Capilano University

North Vancouver

I enjoy helping people learn about how to pursue their educational, professional and personal goals.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about intercultural communication, equality, diversity and inclusivity.

Marisa Hightower

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University of Miami's Office of Civic and Community Engagement

Miami, FL

I enjoy helping people learn about the opportunities to connect and engage on and off campus.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about what other organizations and individuals are doing to improve campus-community collaborations.

Samantha Hines

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Peninsula College

Port Angeles, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about resources and information.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about building community.

Ashley Hollenbeck

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Institute for Village Studies; Western Washington University

Bellingham/Portland

I enjoy helping people learn about asset-based community development and other participatory strategies to allow for greater engagement in local initiatives. Maintaining local livelihoods, overcoming the culture of dependency in development, and managing/protecting environmental resources have been central to that work.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about strategies for community engagement used in other parts of the world and the Pacific Northwest.

Moriah Holmes

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Azusa Pacific University

San Bernardino, CA

I enjoy helping people learn about developing natural strengths/abilities and overcoming obstacles.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about growing as a leader and building more strategic connections.

Kristen Hylton

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Timberland Regional Library

Elma, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about all kinds of things! I like helping people in general.

 

Lately, I've been interested in how to reach out to and engage people more effectively in a virtual space.

Judy Ishiura Walker

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CA State University Sacramento

Sacramento, CA

I enjoy helping people learn about child development- especially the importance of the first five years of life.

Lately, I've been interested in how to be my "best self" and being open to support students in ways I've never imagined.

Natalia Jamiolkowski

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Edison, New Jersey

I enjoy helping people learn about their position and potential in responding to their respective communities. 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to effectively communicate with communities in understanding what their needs are.

Typhanie Jasper Butler

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Loyola University New Orleans

New Orleans, LA

I enjoy helping people learn about serving others and how this connects us to being better leaders and citizens.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about political movements and DEI issues.

Mellissa Jessen-Hiser

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Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning at Fresno State

Fresno, CA

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves and their connections to others.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about organizational development

Alyssa Keifer

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Drew University Center for Civic Engagement

Madison, NJ

I enjoy helping people learn about ways in which we can support the needs of our community.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to build connections/relationships with new individuals within the community.

Nicole Kendrick

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Experiential Learning, University of Puget Sound

Tacoma, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about who they are at their best and how to take their next best step forward.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about who I am at my best and how to take my next best step forward.

Julie Keniry

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Wallowa Resources and Eastern Oregon University

La Grande, Oregon

I enjoy helping people learn about opportunities to work and play in eastern Oregon.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how policy changes can help support growth and revitalization of rural communities.

Sarina Kiesser

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Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about the world of science in our local community.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to open lines of communication between different silos within the university.

Daniel Kirkpatrick

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Educational Design Associates

Bellingham, Washington

I enjoy helping people learn about effective parenting and powerful teaching

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about Integral Theory.

Brian Kurisky

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Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia Beach, VA

I enjoy helping people learn about ideas/things that challenge their way of thinking.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about diversity/equity/inclusion in the context of engagement.

Chelsea Lauder

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Northeastern University

Boston, MA

I enjoy helping people learn about building systems to support responsible community partnerships in S-LCE.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about methods and best practices in engaged research.

Jennifer Lautenbach

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Lynden Community/Senior Center & Everson City Council Member

Everson, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about connecting with others.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about being an effective leader in my community.

Juliet LaVigne

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Change Builders, Drew University Civic Scholars

Beattystown

I enjoy helping people learn about the environment.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about advocacy work.

Catherine (Cat) Lettieri

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UC San Diego

San Diego, CA

I enjoy helping people learn about how to develop community-engaged learning programs and courses, and how to access their discipline through the lens of social justice.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about anti-racist pedagogy, including a deeper dive into community cultural wealth and allyship.

Pauline Leung

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Ely, UK

I enjoy helping people learn about coaching, learning and development, career development.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about communities of practice, social learning and data analytics

Misty Lewis

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HealthNet

Indianapolis

I enjoy helping people learn about access to healthcare services and community resources.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about community building.

Charli Lienemann

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IUPUI

Indianapolis

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about conflict communication, storytelling and social innovation.

Jessica Lisanti

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Madison/Bradley Beach NJ

I enjoy helping people learn about different political and environmental issues.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about the varying roles in American government and politics.

Sarah Little

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Timberland Regional Library

Aberdeen, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about 1) Resources from their local library, my favorite places to hike and bike, my favorite places to eat and drink locally, new tools and ideas, learning new ideas and tools from others. 2) I appreciate having those deep conversations when people can learn more about themselves, how they are growing and what the next steps look like for them. 3) What resources are available for children, teens and families in this area. 4) Early Learning STEM activities indoors and outdoors!

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about 1) Resiliency and self-care as an individual, as a team, as a community, as a nation etc. 2) How we can best learn from one another as we pivot with continuous changes. 3) What are some tools to best create community and get feedback on what is working and where can we grow. 4) How do we work together as a community organization with other community organizations easier/stronger/with more resiliency for the larger community.

Bill Lonneman

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Western Washington University

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves (including me learning about myself!), as we all try to live creatively and responsibly in these challenging times

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how we can bridge the gaps, the things that might divide us.

Jordan Loveland

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Timberland Regional Library

Oakville/ Hometown is Castle Rock

I enjoy helping people learn about helpful resources that are free and accessible to all

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about the real history of the Americas, racial justice and healing, and how to decolonize the Americas.

Rachel Lunden

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Burlington Public Library

Anacortes

I enjoy helping people learn about really exciting books that change the way they think about themselves, others, and the future.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about environmental health and justice, citizen/community science.

Isabelle Lys

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Australian Catholic University

Brisbane, Australia

I enjoy helping people learn about different cultures/communities, collaboration and coming together and learning from each other.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how communities can come together to support each other and other communities in common goals working towards peace and innovations.

Emily Machin-Mayes

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Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about conflict resolution, restorative justice practices, community education for youth and adults. Also podcasts.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to build relationships and create meaningful learning online, and how to balance the importance of learning & dialogue with action.

Brahm Marjadi

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School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, NSW, Australia

Campbelltown, Australia

I enjoy helping people learn about the importance of understanding the community in medical practice.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to build the scholarship around community engagement.

Ann McAllen

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Whatcom County Library System

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I enjoy helping people learn about teaching.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about textiles.

Kelly McGinley Ashe

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City of Cheney Parks & Recreation Department

Nine Mile Falls, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about history. Medieval and Elizabethan history to be exact.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about Jane Austen and the Regency Era

Katy McLaughlin

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Mid-Columbia Libraries

Prosser, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about how things interconnect.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about human nature and repairing our environment.

Ray McVicker

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Western Washington (student), York Community Farm (intern)

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about their local environment and outdoor skills that interest them.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about sustainable design, the circular economy and permaculture.

Stephanie Moran

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Anderson University

Anderson, South Carolina

I enjoy helping people learn about the value they bring to relationships and the community.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how communities can effectively host events and conversations that promote perspective taking and story telling.

Ann Moylan

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California State University, Sacramento

Davis, CA (originally from South Carolina)

I enjoy helping people learn about asset-based practices when working with children, youth and families.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about laws, policies and practices that impact children and youth in foster care. I am a CASA and a Guardian Scholars mentor.

Misti Mueller

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Midlothian, VA

I enjoy helping people learn about being their best self.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about mindfulness in schools.

Renu Narchal

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Western Sydney University

Sydney, Australia

I enjoy helping people learn about the significance of appreciating, respecting and accepting diversity; the richness it brings to our lives and how as human beings we can learn and grow together.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to encourage others to value community engagement; strategies to make community engaged learning a norm rather than an exception in academia.

Rondi Nordal

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RE Sources, AmeriCorps

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about the natural world and how interconnected we all are. I love being able to get them excited about the little things they would often take for granted.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to bridge networks between individuals or organizations I work with and how to bring opposing forces together around common goals.

Sadie Olsen

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Whiteswan Environmental, Northwest Indian College

Che Nexw Xwlemi Tengexw. The territory of the Lummi people.Bellingham, Washington

I enjoy helping people learn about Indigenous Wisdom. Specifically the class of language revitalization, the connection between relationship building, place-based learning and health.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about geology & hydrology.

Ebon Oluchi

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Portland, OR

I enjoy helping people learn about sustainability - why it's important, why it's essential, and how they can engage in it!

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how my favorite style of leadership, relational leadership, can be even more functional in today's climate.

Carolina Olza-Kelsh

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Whatcom Community College

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about effective parenting practices.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about equity and inclusivity.

Melissa Osborne

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Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about the social world and their positionality and contextually within it.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about enhancing pedagogy through engaged practice.

Laura Overstreet

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Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA/Fort Worth, TX

I enjoy helping people learn about role enactment and unconscious bias.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how stigma reduces students' academic success.

Joelle Parrs-Weinberg

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Lydia Place

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about the ways in which they can get involved in their community in an impactful way.

Daniela Pierson

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Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about culture and languages.

Lately, I have been interested in learning about diversity and inclusion, loving kindness.

Judy Pine

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Dept of Anthropology, WWU

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about language as a verb, something we do; literacies.

Lately, I have been interested in learning about culturally sustaining pedagogies; how my specialist knowledge may be made more useful in the "real world"; how to create more equitable learning experiences in my classrooms.

Jarrad Plante

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University of Central Florida's Center for Community Schools

Orlando, FL

I enjoy helping people learn about national service opportunities.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about strategically connecting community engagement to our Community Partnership Schools.

Joshua Porter

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WWU / Community Learning Lab

Twisp, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about land, community, and place.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about intergenerational learning, thinking, and caring.

Liz Purdy

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Bellingham SeaFeast, City of Bellingham

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about civic engagement and policy advocacy.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about successful coalition building and creating strategic partnerships.

Gustavo Requena Santos

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Science Yourself

Connecticut

I enjoy helping people learn about nature, science, and critical thinking.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about communicating and connecting with people that have different worldviews from mine.

Alba Reyes

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Drew Action Program

New Jersey, Jersey City

I enjoy helping people learn about ways to get involved in their communities.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about ways to help others involving advocacy for education.

Stephanie Samantha Rios

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The Draper Center for Community Partnerships; Pomona College

Upland, CA

I enjoy helping people learn about accessing higher education and how to bring all of your authenticity to the space.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about my spirituality and how to have a better work-life balance while working remotely from home.

Hoku Rivera

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Whatcom Intergenerational High School

Bellingham, WA (Hometown: Honolulu)

I enjoy helping people learn about Indigenous histories, including treaty histories, military occupation, and inequalities faced by Indigenous communities today. On the work side, I enjoy helping people learn about WIHS and what our school has to offer to students in need of smaller, more personal educational experiences.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about Communities and organizations in Bellingham, and how to build more connections with BIPOC, considering the demographics in this town. I've also been interested in learning more about grant writing, volunteer recruitment, and sustainable program structures.

Ryan Robie

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City of Bellingham (Parks Department); Western Washington University (Washington Campus Compact)

Location: Bellingham, WA; Hometown: Arcata, CA

I enjoy helping people learn about how they can best (and most effectively) engage in localized civic engagement opportunities!

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to most effectively lead informal/ad-hoc groups in discussions both in-person & virtually.

Patty Ross

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Puyallup Public Library

Lacey, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about books I have loved.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about servant leadership.

Athena Roth

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Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about opportunities for lifelong learning in our community.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how I can keep engaging people with lifelong learning opportunities

Owen Rowe

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Port Townsend City Council; Board President, The Food Co-op

Port Townsend, Washington

I enjoy helping people learn about organizational governance and strategic planning.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about community development policy and facilitating public engagement.

Sala Sataraka

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Jumpstart / University of Washington

Seattle

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves through activities, community, and ongoing mentorship.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to navigate the current political climate and working at a public institution that is a PWI.

Jonathan Scanlon

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Scanlon Consulting

Bellingham, Washington, United States

I enjoy helping people learn about being an active citizen.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about indigenous rights, history, and current organizing efforts.

Robin Scheer

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York Farm, WWU Community Outreach

Bellingham, Washington, United States

I enjoy helping people learn about social justice and student perspectives, sharing my perspective as a lesbian of color from a troubled low income household.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about agricultural/environmental justice, food sovereignty especially for low income communities of color, land back movement, Black & Indigenous history and BLM.

Allison Schultz

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Center for Academic Community Engagement, Siena College

Loudonville

I enjoy helping people learn about how they can develop as agents of change in the local community.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about barriers to student participation in the service-learning and community engagement opportunities—particularly students from marginalized identities.

Sara Schwan

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Mid-Columbia Libraries

Kennewick

I enjoy helping people learn about all that the library has to offer our residents.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how the libraries can evolve and shift our focus to serve the needs of our communities and individuals during and post pandemic.

Ellen Shortt Sanchez

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The Evergreen State College, Center for Community Based Learning and Action

Olympia, WA (Evergreen) Shelton, WA (home)

I enjoy helping people learn about Popular education and how our lived experience makes us experts and how collectively we can solve our communities' problems.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to have meaningful visionary discussions with our center's advisory committee about campus-community partnerships that address social and racial justice.

Sarah Simpson

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Whatcom Community College

Bellingham, Washington

I enjoy helping people learn about DIY! Fixing! Mending! Creating!

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to remodel a backyard and maximizing gardening space.

Derrin Slack

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ProAct Indy

Indianapolis, IN

I enjoy helping people learn about the shared-value of intentional relationships and collective impact among schools, businesses, and nonprofits while having an Outward Mindset to see people as people.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how other organizations are implementing effective strategies to close gaps for vulnerable populations by breaking down the siloes among diverse sectors, specifically, the sectors of education, corporate, and nonprofit.

Sana Sohel

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SFU

Burnaby

I enjoy helping people learn about utilizing their interests and passions to build a meaningful and satisfactory life.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about utilizing available resources to engage youth in community engagement.

James Spaich

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People's Land Trust

Bellingham, WA 

I enjoy helping people learn about compassionate communication.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about the complexity of conflict.

Lisa Spicer

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Whiteswan Environmental

Bellingham, WA 

I enjoy helping people learn about  themselves, through their own stories.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about podcasting.

Nick Stanger

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Western Washington University, University of Victoria

Victoria, BC

I enjoy helping people learn about how to help others learn about centering Indigenous futures.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to collaborate in ways that don't beauracratize relationships.

Desiree "Monique" Stefens

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Whatcom Community College

Bellingham, WA 

I enjoy helping people learn about asset framing as part of equity work.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about expanding transparency to advance equity.

Erin Suda

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Whatcom County Library System; River Farm Community Land Trust

Deming, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about books, technology, information resources, and sustainable ways of living.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about conflict resolution and improving interpersonal relations.

Kathleen Sullivan

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Washington State Library, Office of Secretary of State

Seattle, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about whatever is meaningful to them, in whatever ways work well for them.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about whales and whaling vessels.

Carisa Sullivan

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Timberland Regional Library

Olympia

I enjoy helping people learn about how to connect to their communities and where to find resources

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about what is needed for community partnerships to be more effective during and post pandemic.

Ashley Tarbet DeStefano

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Elma Lewis Center at Emerson College; MS candidate in Critical Ethnic and Community Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston

Boston, MA

I enjoy working in community and in solidarity to learn about the interconnectedness of our experiences and the interdependency of our justice and liberation with one another.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about community-centered ideas and experiences for building partnerships and engagement programs that center community-identified needs and assets and work in solidarity to achieve progress towards equity, justice, and liberation.

Upkar Tatlay

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Engaged Communities Canada Society

Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

I enjoy helping people learn about the inequities and gaps that exists in service delivery and resources in health care as it pertains to IBPoC communities, the impact this has on health outcomes, and some of the solutions we should be seeking.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about the points of confluence that occur in health challenges that are experienced in and among varying diverse and IBPoC communities.

Maddie Taylor

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WWU & AmeriCorps

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about food justice and food accessibility.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about empowering communities.

Travis Tennessen

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Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about the histories of where they live, and together imagining potential futures.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how the global financial system works. I'll take book recommendations!

Julie Tille

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Westminster College

Salt Lake City

I enjoy helping people learn about identifying how their passions can impact the community in positive ways.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about servant leadership through community engagement.

Sarah Toledano

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Siena College Center for Academic Community Engagement

Loudonville

I enjoy helping people learn about nonprofit management and realistic partnership.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about sustaining partnerships and moving forward over time.

Susan Trudeau

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University of North Florida

Satsuma, FL

I enjoy helping people learn about how to work together to make the world a better place.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about engaging students in deliberative dialogue.

Jane Turk

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Iowa & Minnesota Campus Compact

Saint Paul, Minnesota

I enjoy helping people learn about the ways in which they are connected to other people and communities.


Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to operationalize more collective and distributed approaches to leadership.

Faith Valencia-Forrester

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Griffith University

Brisbane Australia

I enjoy helping people learn about social justice issues they normally don't see.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about compassion.

Mindy Van Wingen

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Everett Public Library

Everett, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about how to find, evaluate, and use information; how to tap into local resources and networks.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about race and social justice.

Sergio Vasquez

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Tulane University, Center for Public Service

New Orleans

I enjoy helping people learn about the systems that intersect with their personal and professional values.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about self care and continuing to charge white/allies with work of anti-racism.

Natalie Vickous

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Lindsey Wilson College

Kentucky

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves and the world around them.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about trauma responses and coping mechanisms to not only survive them, but learn from them.

Tori Vogelgesang

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Kentucky Campus Compact

Cincinnati

I enjoy helping people learn about community engagement, social justice, and dialogue practices.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about design clinics; diversity, equity and inclusion; community building, dialogue practices.

Olga Vtorushina

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Horsens, Denmark

I enjoy helping people learn about how they learn.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about boundaries.

Lindsay Walker

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University of Puget Sound, Sound Policy Institute

Tacoma

I enjoy helping people learn about place-based learning, environmental justice, grassroots environmental activism at the state and local level, the Tacoma tideflats, environmental jobs and internships, community events, native plants, birds and marine life (specifically whales) in our region, sailing

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about racial and social justice, prison abolition, environmental justice, mutual aid, building strong relationships in community, queer and radical feminist environmental movements, land back movements, environmental reparations, landscaping with native plants

Sheila Wasylyshyn

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University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

I enjoy helping people learn about working together in partnership and by coming together, we can find ways to improve the lives of individuals in all our communities.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about others approach their work in community engagement.

Ross Brooke Watts

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Whitworth University

Spokane, WA

I enjoy helping people learn about the past

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about writing

Michael Wilder

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WWU - ATUS

Bellingham, WA 

I enjoy helping people learn about online teaching and learning

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how technology can facilitate and encourage social justice and equity.

Shirley Williams

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www.whiteswanenvironmental.org

Lummi Nation/Bellingham, Washington

I enjoy helping people learn about how the saltwater salmon people of the Salish Sea.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about fostering epistemic justice and education.

Nishtha Yadav

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2020-21 Princeton in Africa Fellow at FCDE, Uganda

New Delhi, India

I enjoy helping people learn about how communication strategies and effective storytelling can be used to build social movements and create community.

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to build a sustainable community through virtual collaborations and how ethical community engagement can be encouraged.

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