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CE Fellows:
Beyond Boundaries
Spring 2021

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JOSIE LANE

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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

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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

Liz Andre smiling in front of a library bookshelf.

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.

Kamea Black smiling at the camera, selfie-style.

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.

Snow on and around pine trees.

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.

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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 smiling at the camera.

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.

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Asotin County Library

Clarkston, WA , USA

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I enjoy helping people learn about what interests them.

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A headshot of Lauren Currie smiling at the camera in font of a grey backdrop.

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 smiling at the camera, selfie-style.

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 smiling at the camra and posed outside.

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.

Alice Frances smiling in front of a brick wall.

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.

A headshot of Alanna Fusco smiling at the camera with sunglasses perched on her head.

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.

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Mid Columbia Libraries

Pasco, WA, US

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

Headshot of Matthew Grant outside, wearing a suit and tie.

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.

Laurel hammond smiling at the camera wearing a turtleneck, selfie-style.

Center for Community Engagement, Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about CEF Design Clinics. 

 

Lately, I've been interested in learning more about creating community in virtual spaces. 

Bradley Hartsell smiling at the camera.

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 smiling at the camera, selfi-style.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Ssylvia Kabugho smiling outdoors.

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.

Jay Nolan in sunglasses and backpackin gear smiling while in the mountains.

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.

Christina Keppie smiling and looking off-camera.

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.

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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.

Rebecca McClean smiling, posed by haybales and corn stalks.

Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about food resources.

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

Julie Mowrer smiling selfie-style while outdoors.

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."

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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 smiling at the camera wearing a thick turtleneck.

Whatcom Coalition for Environmental Educators

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.

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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.

Charo Portaro smiling at the camera, selfie-style.

 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.

Dr. Maureen O'Neill smiling and gesturing down a mountain side.

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 looking directly at the camera.

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.

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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.

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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.

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UW-Madison Morgridge Center for Public Service

Madison, WI 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.

Hoku Rivera in a blue dress, graduation cords, and adorned in flowers.

Whatcom Intergenerational High School; University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa

Bellingham, WA, USA

I enjoy helping people learn about the Indigenous projects or situations that I know about.

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Lately, I have been interested in learning more about recruitment and retention of volunteers.

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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.

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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 smiling at the camer in glasses.

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.

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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 Savioan smiling outdoors and wearing a parka with the hood up.

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 smiling in front of a fall background.

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.

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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 smiling at the camera.

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 posing and looking off camera.

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 Sturgi looking at the camera in front of a bookshelf.

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.

Travis Tennessen smiling outdoors.

Center for Community Learning, Western Washington University 

Bellingham, WA, USA

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

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

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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.

A headshot of Gwendolyn Wagner smiling in front of a bookshelf.

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 smiling at and holding a bearded dragon.

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.

A headshot of Cynthia Wilkerson smiling on a white backdrop.

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 smiling next to a traditional story pole carving.

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.

Our programming takes place on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived in the Salish Sea basin, throughout the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades watershed, from time immemorial. We express our deepest respect and gratitude for our indigenous neighbors, particularly the Lummi Nation and Nooksack Tribe, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.

(For more information: WWU Tribal Relations)

WWU Center for Community Learning

Professional photo credit Jessie Bloss Photography

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