The faculty mentors for the Poverty and Social Justice minor would like to celebrate the successes of our students and alumni of the program.
The Poverty and Social Justice interdisciplinary minor would like to celebrate the achievements of some of our current and former students during the 2014-2015 academic year. Congratulations to all of your successes!
Briana Balady
Will represent Elon as a Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty summer intern at Camp Interactive.
Victoria Bell
In addition to being a Teaching Fellow and a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Psi Chi honor society and Pi Gamma Mu honor society, Victoria has been completing undergraduate research about stressors for high school students who will be first generation college students with Dr. Buffie Longmire-Avital (Department of Psychology). She will intern for the NC State Government this summer at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
Angie Edwards
Is an Elon Teaching Fellow in the Class of 2016 and an Elementary Education Major. She also serves as an Elon Academy CAT Mentor and Coach. This summer she will be working for Appalachia Service Project where she will do emergency home repair with volunteer groups in some of the poorest counties throughout the Appalachians.
Josephine Gardner
Is a Public Health major with minors in Poverty and Social Justice and Policy Studies. In the fall she served as a Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Poverty Studies class. She has also interned with the North Carolina African Services Coalition and Ethiopian Immigrants Community Association. She was recently awarded the Family Learning in Action Award to establish a residential home for homeless women and children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Mackenzie Mann
Graduated in 2014 and was selected as a Student Action with Farmworkers Fellow from June-November 2014. In December, she was hired to work full time at the NC Farmworkers Project designing an Affordable Care Act enrollment program for farmworkers, and has been working there ever since.
Emily McCachren
Completed a 1-year internship with Allied Churches in Burlington. She was accepted to the Masters of Divinity program at Princeton Theological Seminary for the fall of 2015, and given the Presbyterian Church (USA) Leadership Award that covers full tuition.
Marshall Moore
Completed a 6-week internship in Tanzania at Tanzania Children’s Fund in fall 2014. She then served as a Development Intern at Triad Health Project during Winter Term 2015. This summer, she will work in New York City as a Development Intern at Success Academy Charter Schools.
Ruthie Robinson
Has served as a student caller for the Phonathon in the Office of University Advancement and as a member of SGA. She completed a Semester at Sea in fall 2014 and became a member of Phi Kappa Phi this spring. In addition she has worked on research with Dr. Longmire-Avital on the conceptualization of daily and race-related stress for collegiate Black females as learned from their foremothers. This summer, she will represent Elon as a Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty summer intern at LIFT Boston. Following graduation, she plans to go to graduate school for mental health counseling where she will focus on counseling individuals from disadvantaged communities.
Lauren Scott
Will represent Elon as a Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty summer intern at the Atlanta Community Food Bank.
Christopher Stella
Is a law student at the Elon Law School in Greensboro. He will represent Elon as a Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty summer intern at the New Orleans Public Defenders Office.
Emma Warman
Was recently invited to join the Communications Honor Society and Lambda Pi Eta. She will be studying Language and Culture in Dakar, Senegal this coming fall with a CIEE ambassador scholarship! This summer will she be working as a camp counselor at Camp Hanover in Richmond, Virginia.