ANNUAL REpoRt 2010-2011 - Ithaca College

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ANNUAL REPORT: 2010-2011 Last spring, Erin volunteered at the Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) in its Youth Department. This fall, she continues her service with the library working as its development intern to help raise money for programming. Erin began her semester as a Community Plunge leader and had an amazing time volunteering at a school downtown as well as at Finger Lakes ReUse Center. On campus, she is a proponent for mental health with the advocacy group Active Minds. She is delighted to have been elected president for this year and will also continue serving as a Speak Your Mind panelist to provide a voice for mental health. Erin will also be helping the Community School of Music and Arts with event planning through the Park Scholar service group Megaphone Media Productions. Erin also loves to volunteer at various local events such as Judy’s Day at Cornell Plantations and the Apple Harvest Festival. She is also a member of the United Way Philanthropy Corps. Jenna was privileged to spend her spring semester in Bolivia, experiencing the vivid Andean culture through the lens of her program’s theme: multiculturalism, globalization, and social change. She participated in a variety of community service projects wherever she traveled, and she spent two weeks living in an indigenous community where she volunteered at the newly-implemented local library. She is currently publishing a trilingual children’s book about her experience in this library, which she wrote and illustrated. She works on local media projects through Megaphone Media Productions, helps coordinate the annual Christians on the Road to Emmaus student retreat through the Protestant Community, and helps develop and market student programming through her job as a student leadership consultant in the Ithaca College Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs (OSEMA). One of her favorite involvements is IC Intercambios, a Spanish/English language exchange program. As the community match coordinator, she handles all correspondence with Spanish-speaking community members to match them with a student speaking partner from Ithaca College. Erin Irby Integrated Marketing Communications Statesboro, GA Jenna Jablonski Integrated Marketing Communications Lakewood, NY Qina has returned to Ithaca College after studying abroad in London last spring. While in London, she became the first four-month intern at The Tablet, an international weekly Catholic newspaper, where she researched and wrote about spending cuts and the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady at Walsingham. She also volunteered with BTCV, a charity dedicated to environmental conservation, and worked on building a “kitchen garden” in Waterlow Park. This past summer, Qina was one of eight American City Business Journal interns throughout more than 40 publications in the United States. She reported for publications based in her hometown of Buffalo, New York, including Business First and The Buffalo Law Journal. Qina also continues to work as a reporter for ICTV’s news program Newswatch 16 this fall. She is a writer for The Ithacan, Buzzsaw magazine, and the Ithaca City School District; a newscaster at 92 WICB; and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. In addition to her media involvement, she volunteers walking dogs at the SPCA of Tompkins County every week. Qina Liu Journalism Kenmore, NY Merdina Ljekperic spent her spring semester and summer in Córdoba, Argentina where she studied the language, culture, politics, history, and economics of Latin America as a whole. She also interned at a communications agency where she was able to participate in almost all firm activity but focused mainly on her own project, creating a database of international donors for the agency’s new mission plan to serve nonprofits and NGOs at little to no cost. Back on campus, Merdina is a co-coordinator of Media Club, a Park Scholar group service project. She leads a group of twenty-one volunteers in total, while focusing mainly on the program at New Roots Charter School. She is also serving her second year as special events co-chair on the executive board for Ithaca College Habitat for Humanity. In this position, she has organized all fundraisers for the chapter. She is also involved in all major decisions and participates in builds in the local community. Merdina also keeps practicing her Spanish with IC Intercambios, which pairs students with native Spanish-speakers in the community and teaches English to community farm workers. Merdina also writes for Buzzsaw magazine, expressing her humor in Sawdust and her love of politics in Upfront. She is also a member of the Ithaca College Model United Nations team. Merdina Ljekperic Journalism Staten Island, NY 23
PARK SCHOLAR PROGRAM Taylor Long Journalism Indiana, PA After receiving a Park Center for Independent Media internship scholarship, Taylor Long had the opportunity to report on labor issues this summer for In These Times magazine as a web intern. This fall, Taylor brought these skills back to Ithaca College campus as a staff writer for The Ithacan, the college’s student newspaper, and as communications director for the Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity, a student organization committed to upholding labor rights on campus and in the Ithaca community. Taylor also volunteered at Ithaca City of Asylum, an organization offering refuge in Ithaca to writers who were being oppressed in their home countries. In addition to helping with outreach, she also helped organize the organization’s annual “Voices of Freedom” event. Coordinating a book and magazine collection and donation system between the college and Prisoners Express has also been an ongoing project of Taylor’s this semester. Taylor is also a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and participates in a weekly narrative journalism workshop. Lauren Mateer Journalism Richboro, PA Lauren spent the spring semester studying abroad in London at the Ithaca College London Centre. During her time abroad, she interned at Peace News, a monthly magazine dedicated to issues of peace: anti-war activism, environmentalism and sustainability, peace workers, and other related topics. There, she had the opportunity to write, blog, research, and take photographs for the magazine. In London, Lauren also volunteered at a local Oxfam Charity Shop as a shop assistant. At the start of the fall semester, she was a Community Plunge leader at Jumpstart for the second year, leading a group of first-year students in service work at the Kitchen Theatre Company and at the Ithaca EcoVillage. She also continued previous service work during the fall semester by participating in the Reader Is In Program at the Tompkins County Public Library and by volunteering at South Hill Elementary School. Lauren got involved in several service-based clubs on campus: Active Minds and IC Intercambios. Finally, she continued to write for on-campus publications The Ithacan and Buzzsaw magazine. Emily Miles Journalism Prospect, KY Emily devoted her summer to mentoring middle school students at the Leadership Training Conference and organizing alumni service opportunities for the Kentucky YMCA Youth Association. Throughout the semester, Emily was the co-coordinator of the Park Scholar Media Club group service project, acting as a curriculum developer and program director. Emily also led a team of grant writing students in completing a proposal package for New Roots Charter School. The school will be able to continue its Farm-to-School meal program with the help of Emily and her team. In order to spend even more time in the community, Emily has been preparing and serving lunch at Loaves and Fishes, a soup kitchen in downtown Ithaca. This fall in the Park School, Emily was the Upfront co-editor for Ithaca’s alternative magazine, Buzzsaw. She also contributed as a writer, photographer, and designer. Emily also took part in Ithaca College’s radio scene as the host of WICB’s weekly news show, Ithaca Now, contributing stories, conducting live interviews, and training new team members. Emily Nowels Television-Radio Edinburgh, IN Last semester, Emily volunteered weekly at the SPCA. This organization promotes healthy animal-human relationships while preventing animal cruelty and overpopulation. She was also involved with Audrey’s House, an organization working to help rebuild New Orleans. The organization planned a school supplies drive and a teach-in concerning the evolving New Orleans school district. Emily specifically helped the group with promotion and advertising. In addition, Emily worked closely with Active Minds, which attempts to change the conversation surrounding mental health. This group hosted several awareness events, including Send Silence Packing, a nationwide suicide prevention campaign. Emily also began to organize a magazine for Active Minds, which will be distributed throughout Ithaca next year, when Emily returns from studying abroad in Siena, Italy. This semester she has continued to prepare for production from afar. While abroad, Emily has also become involved with La Proposta Community Garden, which provides social-therapeutic reintegration for prisoners and drug addicts. 24
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