Category: Profiles of Engagement

This year the CCCE was proud to announce the establishment of the 2016/2017 Sesquicentennial Fellowship, a fund designed to help students pursue passions in community development and advocacy during the summer of 2017.

This week, the CCCE Community Spotlight falls on Sam Bearak, a senior history major who spent his sophomore summer working with Summer Blast at Northfield Middle School…

Debby Walser Kuntz is as immunologist who is a professor in the Carleton Biology Department. She served at Broom Faculty Fellow from 2013 to 2016. During her tenure as Broom Fellow she focused on public scholarship in public health and the sciences as well as building public health opportunities at Carleton.  She sat down with us to reflect on her time as Broom Fellow and on public scholarship at Carleton.

The values of civic engagement fostered in Borr Vang ’12 extend beyond the workplace. They remain at the heart of who she is today.

Patrick Wigent ’19 is an education fellow for the Center for Civic and Community Engagement.

Working with Northfield Reads & Counts as a freshman gave Jordyn valuable work experience and a chance to be a positive role model for area youth.

Coordinator of Student Pathways Phillip Lundquist briefly explains how he works with the Carleton Center for Civic and Community Engagement to get students involved with social justice and community issues, what led him to his current position, and how he hopes the CCCE can improve its methods in the future.

Hannah Reed is the Education College Access Fellow. In addition, Hannah has been involved in many programs through the CCCE including TORCH-PSEO, Young Chefs, Tutoring Hotline, and an ACE Course. In this Profile of Engagement, Hannah shares some of her experiences working with Northfield High School students.

Junior Anna Guasco’s experience in an ACE course inspired her to approach environmental issues from an American Studies perspective and research Channel Islands in a way that had never been done before. 

Tori Ostenso is the Food and Sustainability Fellow. She’s been involved in many CCCE programs, serving as Gleaning program director, farm mentee, food and sustainability fellow, Young Chefs program mentor, food justice alternate spring break trip coordinator, and a Carleton student farm intern. In this profile Tori talks about the Farmer to Family program she implemented in summer 2014.