Robert Zager

Bob graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003 with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Political Economy. He led a student service trip to Guatemala and participated in service trips to Ghana and New Mexico. Bob spent a summer in Ghana as an intern for the Missouri … Read more

Elizabeth Whelan

Elizabeth studied Poetry Writing and Religion at the University of Virginia. The summer after her first year of college, she returned to Zambia (where her family had lived for five years) to volunteer at an orphanage while compiling a photo-essay. Upon her return, she created a website to raise funds … Read more

Bi Vuong

Bi is originally from Hawaii and she graduated from Kenyon College in Ohio with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She has been involved in programs for inner-city children and teenagers from large, low-income families in both the District of Columbia and Scotland. While at Kenyon, she also served as … Read more

Jeanine LaFratta

Jeanine, a native of southern California, graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 with a joint degree in Political Science and Theology and a concentration in Public Service. She was elected to Student Senate, worked at the Center for Social Concerns for three years, spent … Read more

Wick Ruehling

Wick graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia where he majored in Public Policy.  At W&L he served as vice president of the Student Activities Board and played varsity soccer.  Wick interned with Total Action Against Poverty in Roanoke, Virginia where he worked with Head Start and the … Read more

Bridget Purdue

Bridget is from Lexington, Kentucky, and is a 2003 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she majored in Economics with a minor in Philosophy and Politics.  At Notre Dame, Bridget worked as a court watch volunteer for a local YWCA Domestic Violence shelter, helped to research and develop … Read more

Rebekah Park

Rebekah graduated cum laude and with honors from Northwestern University in 2002, where she received the Jane S. Mansbridge Scholar Activist Award by the NU Women Faculty for her leadership in activist organizations and academic research grants.  Rebekah worked extensively on intersecting issues related to drug users, HIV/AIDS, and women.  … Read more

Amaliya Morgan-Brown

Amaliya graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Oregon with a degree in International Affairs and a senior thesis titled The Agreement on Agriculture: Food Security in Developing Countries.  As a 2002-2003 AmeriCorps* VISTA volunteer working with Just Food of New York City she helped organize a Community Supported Agriculture … Read more

Shana McDavis-Conway

Shana is a graduate of the University of Delaware, where she majored in Anthropology and Women’s Studies and minored in Theater and History.  She also spent a semester researching domestic partner benefits at the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Shana then served as an … Read more

Rajiv Magge

Rajiv is a 2003 graduate of Dartmouth College where he was pre-med and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology Modified with Psychology. Rajiv has served as a Research Assistant in Psychological and Brain Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Physiology, and as an Executive Board Member and volunteer with VISIONS … Read more

Rachel Lopez

Rachel is from St. Petersburg, Florida and graduated from Northwestern University with honors in 2003.  She majored in Political Science, Sociology, and International Studies and studied European Union Studies in Paris, France.  While serving as student body president of Northwestern, Rachel created the Eva Jefferson Civil Rights Program, the first … Read more

Lori Leibowitz

Originally from New Jersey, Lori graduated from Brown University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.  At Brown, Lori wrote an honors thesis on changing attitudes and stereotypes about the homeless community, directed the social justice branch of the Jewish student organization, and participated in the Student Hunger … Read more