Theresa Abah

California State University

Sacramento, CA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about understanding the complex challenges of working with older adults

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about news ways of helping students apply theoretical concepts to practice

Julia Adrian

UC San Diego

San Diego, CA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about maternal and infant health, childbirth.

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

Liz Andre

Whatcom County Library System

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about their area of interest. That is the great thing about library work...we have information for any area of focus.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about American history and culture on a local level.

Sarah Becker

CCELL, LSU

Baton Rouge, LA, USA

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I enjoy helping people learn about the ways whiteness influences their way of being/acting/seeing themselves.

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Lately, I've been interested in critical theories of community engagement.

Kamea Black

Community Member

Bellingham, WA, USA

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I enjoy helping people learn about medicinal plants

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about where I want to go in life and what I want to create for this world.

Marianne Brough

Office of Student Engagement

Bozeman, MT, USA

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I enjoy helping people learn about strategies and tactics for exercising civil rights and influencing politics.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about progressive stories and metaphors we need to conceptualize a vision of the future that is more just, equitable, and inclusive.

Kevin Burchell

Independent

Totnes, UK

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I enjoy helping people learn about participation and evaluation.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about everything!

Cynthia Camlin

Department of Art and Art History

Bellingham, WA

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I enjoy helping people learn about artistic responses to problems of our time.

Lately, I've been interested in environmental history.

Tina Clohessy

Asotin County Library

Clarkston, WA , USA

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I enjoy helping people learn about what interests them.

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Lauren Currie

The Massachusetts Promise Fellowship at Northeastern University

Boston, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about social justice, self-advocacy, and national service

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about collective organizing and advocacy, developing transformative work cultures, and alpine touring techniques

Kristin Danielson

Whatcom Family & Community Network

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about current/historic events.

Britta Eschete

Western Washington University

Mount Vernon , WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about opportunities to volunteer in Skagit County and connection to place.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to redefine career success.

Juliet Evans

Compass 2 Campus, Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about student development.

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

Alice Frances

SFU's Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue

Vancouver,

I enjoy helping people learn about ways to stand in their own power.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about process design for dialogues.

Alanna Fusco

Office of City and Community Engagement at Northeastern University

Boston, MA

I enjoy helping people learn about civic engagement, health, and themselves.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about food systems and insecurity, and urban farming.

Patricia Garcia

Mid Columbia Libraries

Pasco, WA, US

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

Matthew Grant

Simon Fraser University, Office of Community Engagement

Burnaby/Surrey/Vancouver, Canada

I enjoy helping people learn about the value of relationships. 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to support the development of children at all ages. I'm particularly interested in development and parenting through early adolescence.

Bradley Hartsell

Emory & Henry College

​Bristol, TN, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about Emory & Henry College.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about lifting up Black voices, particularly in a white part of the US.

Dieu-Hien Hoang

Seattle Colleges

Seattle, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about health promotion, teaching and learning, cross-cultural issues.

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Lately, I have been interested in learning more about how to begin and sustain dialogues with people with opposing viewpoints.

Shelly Hoffman

Grays Harbor College, Student Body president and AmeriCorps

Hoquiam, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about leadership.

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Lately, I have been interested in learning more about how to make impactful changes.

Dr. Valerie F.S. Hunt

Seattle Central College; Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Beloved Community

Seattle, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about Community and Personal Wellness and Wellbeing as Part of Global Leadership.

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Lately, I have been interested in learning more about Historical Trauma of Stolen Indigenous Peoples

Laurine Hurley

Australian Cathlic University

Melbourne, Australia

I enjoy helping people learn about the reciprocal nature of belonging to their communities.

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Lately, I have been interested in learning more about agencies/communities co-creating curriculum with us.

Sylvia Kabugho

Foundation for Community Development and Empowerment

Kampala, Uganda

I enjoy helping people learn about community development.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about building collaborations and partnerships.

Nicole Keeler

Wild Whatcom​

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about how to engage children outdoors.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to be a more effective collaborator amongst organizations with various missions.

Christina Keppie

Center for Canadian-American Studies / Department of Modern and Classical Languages

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about the relationship between language and identity.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how the concept of othering is reflected in border communities.

Bruna Macedo

Griffith University/Service Learning/Community Internship Placements

Australia

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about my reconnection with myself.

Julie Mowrer

Center for Community Engagement & English Language Institute

Hilo, Hawaii, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about community-engaged scholarship.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about expanding our definition of "teacher."

Teri Mueller

Lawrence University, Center for Community Engagement & Social Change

I enjoy helping people learn about how to connect to ideas, groups, causes, and careers that they are passionate about.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about at home composting and how to incorporate it into my garden.

Hannah Newell

Independent Contractor, Pacific Bonsai Museum

Lhaq'temish Ancestral Lands/Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about their role in various systems.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about incorporating anti-racist and anti-bias education into curriculum.

Dominic Savio Nkuubi

Akili Pana Initiative

Kampala, Uganda

I enjoy helping people learn about entrepreneurial skills

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about youth and women empowerment.

Jay Nolan

Olympic Bouldering Gym (owner)

Lynnwood, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about the ecology of the Pacific Northwest and rock climbing.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about start-ups and entrepreneurship.

Dr. Maureen O'Neill

Australian Catholic University

Bokarina Australia

I enjoy helping people learn about common good and human dignity because I like knowing that I helped someone accomplish something that they may have not been able to do without my knowledge of dignified support.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about the reasons behind the social challenges and problems faced by marginalised people before you help fix them.

Zahra Ofoghi

School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University

Coquitlam, BC, Canada

I enjoy helping people learn about methods to improve their quality of life and well-being.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about ways to improve social connectedness and community engagement.

Andrea Osborn

Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about their strengths and the opportunities available to them.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about balance and presence.

Cuevas Peacock

Baylor University Department of External Affairs

Waco, Texas

I enjoy helping people learn about the power they have to create the change they want.

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I have been interested in learning about the dynamic of power between anchor institutions (specifically universities) and their surrounding communities.

Jessica Perone

WSU Center for Civic Engagement

Pullman, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about reciprocity.

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I have been interested in learning about critical service learning.

Anya Piotrowski

UW-Madison Morgridge Center for Public Service

Boston, MA USA

I enjoy helping people learn about power and privilege and the ways in which it impacts asset-based community development and engagement.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to dismantle systems of oppression within our work tied to community engagement, as well as wellness of employees within our organizations.

Charo Portaro

 CIELO

Olympia, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about pathways in education.

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

Brenda Reyes-Lua

Center for Public Service, Gettysburg College

Gettysburg, United States

I enjoy helping people learn about the impact that we can create within our communities through action.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to best utilize our skills and resources to strengthen our community.

Lisa Roe

Northeastern University Office of City & Community Engagement

Boston, MA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about how to see the potential of collaboration in ways that doesn't need to be all or nothing, but instead that gray space in between.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to better use design thinking to co-construct partnerships.

Barbara Sandoval

Western Washington University

Hoodsport, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about the value of making connections with others.

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

Elisabeth Sauerman

Drew University

Mendham, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about the interactions between public health, class, and gender & sexuality.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about other people and how they see and experience the world.

Sasha Savoian

Education Specialist at RE Sources
Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about the intersection of social justice and the climate crisis. And I like to help students amplify their voices, passion, and ideas.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about new ways of doing things! The previous "normal" or dominant way of doing things doesn't work and this is a perfect time to re-imagine how we can create and give space for new leadership and new systems in communities that reflect the voices of those who are systematically oppressed.

Melvin Sedeora

SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue

Vancouver, Canada

I enjoy helping people learn about ways in which deliberative dialogue can bring out the potential in us and then use that as a platform to actualizing the work we want to do.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how dialogue fits into the context of social justice work, especially anti-racism.

Adelle Sium

New Westminister

​SFU Centre for Dialogue

I enjoy helping people learn about my Eritrean heritage and the refugee experience

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to have difficult conversations without triggering defense mode in people.

Kristi Slette

Whatcom Family & Community Coalition

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about opportunities and resources that are a match for their gifts and needs.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to connect with BIPOC and LGBTQ in a trust-building way.

Lisa Spicer

Whiteswan Environmental

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about the history of the place where we live.

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

Jesse Sturgis

Western Washington University - University Marketing

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about growth and potential.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about connecting with the community when traditional ways to connect aren't available.

Cheryl Thompson

Foothills Food Bank

Maple Falls, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about how hunger and food insecurity and how food banks have a positive impact in our communities.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how the Foothills Food Bank can better serve our BIPOC clients.

Lindsey Upton

Department of Sociology and Justice Studies; Eastern Washington University

Spokane, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about compassion, empathy, and policy impact on our daily lives.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about Community Approaches to Mental Health and Trauma Response/Resiliency.

Gwendolyn Wagner

Self Employed (Wagner Works) Consultant to Learning Partners in High Tech

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about themselves and their value to their work and to their relationships.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about how to get groups in high tech to learn collectively and not the standard classroom methods.

Cameron Whitley

Sociology

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about sustainable environments and animal sentience.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about engaging students in community connected learning.

Cynthia Wilkerson

Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly, Boston Chapter

Boston, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about connecting across difference.

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Lately, I've been interested in learning more about best practices for creating more equitable organizations.

Shirley Williams

WHITESWAN Environmental

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about the Indigenous peoples of my ancestral homelands in the Salish Sea.

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about getting my PhD.