ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012
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LETTER FROM THE DIRECTORS
As we celebrate the impact of our students and alumni today, this past year we have taken the opportunity to reflect on where we’re headed.
Dear Friends of LearnServe International, In our field of work, young people are often wistfully referred to as the “leaders of tomorrow.” That is certainly true. But it’s only part of the story. Our students are also the leaders of today. To illustrate, let us share with you a few alumni highlights from this past year. This spring: We joined Yasmine Arrington as she awarded $11,000 in college scholarships to children of incarcerated parents through her venture ScholarCHIPS, which she started three years ago as a LearnServe Fellow We’ve seen Omnia Saed and Amy Wu cogently articulate the importance of technology in education before a rapt audience of state legislators convened by Microsoft We’ve applauded Chloe Loving’s commitment to sponsor one child’s education in Zambia – and inspire others to do the same We’ve welcomed Jake Sorrells to our staff to lead, alongside a dedicated team of LearnServe alumni, the expansion of Young Changemakers in-school social entrepreneurship clubs to four schools As we celebrate the impact of our students and alumni today, this past year we have taken the opportunity to reflect with our staff, Board, and Advisory Board – itself comprised of alumni, advisors, parents, and supporters – on where we’re headed. We are excited to share with you our strategic roadmap for the next three years: Grow our existing Fellows and Abroad programs Expand Young Changemakers student clubs to 12 schools Launch the LearnServe Summer Leadership Academy for middle-school students License our social entrepreneurship curriculum for use by schools and organizations beyond the DC region We look forward to kicking off these new initiatives in the coming year. And 2013 marks the 10-year anniversary of LearnServe—ten years since Hugh Riddleberger began planning the very first LearnServe journey to Ethiopia. We are proud of all that our students, teachers, alumni, families and schools have accomplished since then—and grateful for your enthusiasm, inspiration, and support that makes this work possible. We look forward to working with you as we begin to build the next chapter of LearnServe International. Scott Rechler Sabine Keinath Director & CEO Director & COO
Naomi and Tenena take a dance break in Zambia
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VISION MISSION LearnServe International is building a new generation of globally-minded leaders and entrepreneurs poised to transform their schools and communities in Washington, DC and around the world.
LearnServe International sparks high school students’ passion to make a difference and equips them with the knowledge, tools, and relationships to effectively drive solutions to pressing global challenges.
We envision a region in which every high school student graduates confident and well-versed in business leadership, civic engagement, and cross-cultural fluency—a region in which schools serve as hubs for innovative problem-solving and community action.
VALUES Reflect the diversity of our city.
Transform ideas into action.
LearnServe connects an ethnically, socially, and economically diverse group of students representing public, charter, and independent high schools from Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
LearnServe prepares students with the tools, confidence, and experience to respond creatively to these challenges.
Translate global into local and local into global. LearnServe introduces students, teachers, and schools to pressing local and global challenges through the lens of community leaders and organizations in DC and around the world.
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Engage students and their schools together to effect change. LearnServe supports students, teachers, and school leadership to incorporate the above values into each school’s mission and programs.
LearnServe places teens in the driver's seat like no other organization. -LearnServe Fellow 2010
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LEARNSERVE FELLOWS Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship
The LearnServe Fellows Program mobilizes a new generation of high school students to improve their schools and communities through social innovation. LearnServe Fellows learn first-hand the fundamentals of business planning and entrepreneurship as they design and launch their own social ventures. LearnServe Fellows represent more than 30 public, charter, and independent schools across Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia—reflecting the economic and ethnic diversity of the region. They serve as role models to their peers, engaging, and inspiring civic action—in the process building leadership skills they carry into college and beyond.
Venture Spotlights
Foster Teen Expression Khadijah Wilson Luke C. Moore Academy After three years as a ward of the Child and Family Services Agency, Khadijah decided she would not let living in foster care define her life. Khadijah—a dynamic artist—launched Foster Teen Expression to offer other foster youth the opportunity to express themselves through art. She has committed to using her own artistic talents to speak for the forgotten, defeated, and unheard youth of CFSA.
Bike to the Books Maren Roberts (right) Woodrow Wilson High School Eager to do her part to slow the spread of climate change, Maren wants to make it easy for high school students to bike to school. She organized a bike repair clinic in April, followed by the school’s first Bike to School Day in May.
Kids Are Scientists Too: Virginia Branch Jessica Sun Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Motivated by her own love of science, and concerned by the proliferation of memorizationbased classroom learning, Jessica founded the Virginia branch of Kids are Scientist Too—originally a venture–turned–non-profit founded by LearnServe alum Jessica Yang of Richard Montgomery High School. Jessica Sun has mobilized volunteer teams at six Virginia high schools to make science fun for nearby elementary and middle school students —in the process creating the “Aha” moments of learning and discovery that ultimately may inspire more young people to pursue careers in science.
Cultural Crossroads
Speaking of Peace
Together As One
Amy Wu Richard Montgomery High School
Brianna Little (right) Benjamin Banneker Academic High School
Richard Torres (right) Wheaton High School
A self-described “ABC”—Americanborn Chinese—Amy noticed a common thread to the misunderstandings, and at times frustrations, of her ChineseAmerican peers with regards to their parents. Cultural Crossroads responds to the gap between first and second generation Chinese Americans. Through bi-monthly seminars, parents and their children reflect on and dialogue about this emerging identity crisis between Chinese traditions and American culture.
Serving as a summer Student Ambassador at the United States Holocaust Museum, Brianna realized how little she—an informed citizen, globally aware and passionate about social justice—really understood about global conflicts. She founded Speaking of Peace to give voice to her peers—and through them, to give voice to oppressed communities around the world unable to speak for themselves.
Inspired by his twin sister Rachael who was born with a heart condition that left her paralyzed on the left side of her body, Richard is working to connect mainstream students with their Learning for Independence (LFI) peers. He is collaborating with the school administration and special education teachers to facilitate buddy matches, a “Spread the Word to End the Word” campaign, and other opportunities to forge the bonds of friendship between students in the two programs.
Over the course of the program, I’ve really grown as a person. -LearnServe Fellow 2012
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Participating Schools
Students from DC Public and Charter Schools
Ventures designed and pitched to expert panels
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Students graduated as LearnServe Fellows in May 2012
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Percent now feel comfortable speaking in public—an increase of 64% over the year
92 150 250 12
Posse and 1 Gates Millennium Scholarship won by LearnServe alumni in 2012
Percent would recommend the LearnServe Fellows Program to a friend
Panelists reviewed student venture proposals
Dollars in matching seed grants offered to approved ventures
To be able to have someone finally say to me ‘What do you think? What do you want to change?’ is exhilarating. -LearnServe Fellow 2012
LEARNSERVE ABROAD International Service Learning
LearnServe Abroad leads teams of high school students and teachers to work alongside community-based organizations in developing countries. Participants in the 2012 LearnServe Abroad program experienced the day-to-day realities of life in Zambia, Paraguay, and Jamaica; engaged in peer-to-peer exchanges; and supported ongoing community efforts around poverty, HIV/AIDS, education, and the environment. Students and teachers participate in five months of pre-travel preparation, an introduction to international development theory, their host countries, and project planning. They return inspired, transformed, and ready to share what they have learned—to raise further awareness about and support for these communities overseas.
I’ve learned to be openminded and willing to learn about new things. I see the world in a different light now.” -Student, LearnServe Jamaica 2012
LearnServe Zambia
LearnServe Paraguay
LearnServe Jamaica
LearnServe Zambia participants took a close look at Africa’s HIV/AIDS crisis and the initiative that local communities and organizations have taken to respond.
LearnServe Paraguay participants experienced the contrasting realities of rural and urban life, with a focus on community-based solutions to education and social inequities.
LearnServe Jamaica participants examined the poverty and possibility of life in Jamaica, with an emphasis on both literacy and community-driven development.
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Taught lessons and games at Chikumbuso, a school for widows and orphans Built and delivered bicycles to health workers serving HIV/AIDS patients in rural Zambia through World Bicycle Relief Joined Africa Directions, a youth-led organization that uses dance and drumming to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS Met and taught peers at the Malambo school in rural Monze
Shadowed students from the rural high school in Isla Puku Led workshops on health, art, and the environment for elementary and middle school students Joined service projects led by the youth leaders of the Centro Cultural Comunitario in Santa Ana, on the outskirts of Asuncion Lived with host families from the Colegio San Jose, a private school in Asuncion
Offered literacy support to children at a low-income public elementary school in Kingston Learned the fundamentals of lesson planning, classroom management, tutoring, and instruction from the KBC learning staff Taught summer school and led school improvement projects at Allman Primary School and Scott’s Hall Primary School Tried out sustainable agriculture at The Source Farm Ecovillage Served the public health center and rural development initiatives in the Blue Mountains
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Percentage of students who felt that the experience has changed them
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Percentage of students who described the trip as “unlike anything they had ever done before�
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76
Percentage of students from independent schools
Percentage of students from public and charter schools
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Schools represented including 12 public, 3 charter, and 4 independent schools
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Percentage of students receiving financial assistance, totaling $70,000
Students and teachers traveled to Jamaica, Paraguay, and Zambia
8,155
Dollars raised to date for projects in Jamaica, Paraguay, and Zambia
Notes From the Field...
Zambia 2012: Math with Rocks and Sticks
Paraguay 2012: Who Will Help? I Can!
Niya Morris Central High School June 28, 2012
Martese Holmes (right) Anacostia High School July 6, 2012
Today is the day, sitting under this mango tree, that I truly understood the meaning of being thankful.
I've always wanted to be a politician trying to help reform DC's juvenile justice system and education system. I’ve always thought DC just needs so much help. However, that was before this trip, or more accurately before today. What could possibly happen in this short amount of time to make someone who was so passionate about helping his own city completely want to trade that career for one in foreign affairs?
While assisting the 3rd grade teacher at the Chitukuko School in Lusaka we sat outside on a wooden plank for a bench and bare ground for the floor. As I looked at the teacher writing the math problem “18+21” on the small piece of chalkboard that rested on the mango tree, I waited for the children to pull out calculators from their book bags. Instead they pulled out rocks and sticks. As the children were placing their 39 rocks and sticks on the ground I spent those few moments journeying back to my four years of high school. I realized just how much I never really understood the special meanings behind every object placed in my hand, every encouraging word. The daily things that I experienced in life would be more than a blessing to the children of the Chitukuko School. From my experience today, I will never take for granted what (in my eyes) used to seem so basic. For this experience, I am truly grateful.
During the 20-minute van ride to the centro comunitario it was easy to notice a massive change between the downtown of the Paraguayan capital and Santa Ana. Large buildings with many lights soon turned into small shacks barely standing on their own. There were no more fancy hotels, clean stores—or clean streets for that matter. My group would collect books from local families as donations for the new community center library. While walking house to house for two hours I got a much stronger feel for the city. Having to jump over disgusting green puddles or having to pass ailing dogs were some of the things that got me. Never mind that my group managed to get only three books from maybe 100 houses. Some of the families’ reasons for not having books: no one reads or goes to school in the household. On the disappointing, sad walk back I was deep in thought, wondering who would help this community. And who would help other such countries. Then it hit me. I can!
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The last three days with the sixth graders I learned how hard being a teacher can be.
but planning a lesson step by step and trying to put that into action are two different things. Teachers spend many hours, not including being at school, thinking about students. That right there shows me that, to do a job like this, you have to love and have a passion for it. Also, I learned that some students learn differently than others so you have to have multiple ways to teach one thing to reach out to everyone.
During the school year I could say my respect for teachers was little to none,
Now I can say that I taught a group of sixth graders at the age of 19. I learned
Jamaica 2012: Education Rock-Star Sean Johnson Luke C. Moore Academy June 27, 2012
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to show respect for any teacher that I know and any teacher I will have in the future. After the class was over this little girl I had never seen before asked me to write down my name, age, birthday, and telephone. At first I thought it was kind of weird, but I asked why and she told me it was because I'm a star. That made me feel like a very important person, so I gave her the information and she ran away with a smile.
ORGANIZATIONAL BUDGET July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012
$179,500
$201,324
$140,595
$64,210
$47,687
$42,081
$8,155
$23,965
$215
$6,223
Grants*
Tuition and Earned Income
Individual Contributions
Reserve Fund Contributions**
Sale of Merchandise
Abroad Program
Fellows Program
Administration
Fundraising
Reserve Funds**
$1,496
Other Program
Total Revenue
$376,151
Total Expense
$339,299
Net
$36,852
*Includes both corporate and foundation grants **Reserve Fund Contributions are restricted funds raised for LearnServe partners and projects in Zambia, Paraguay, and Jamaica
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PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS District of Columbia Public Schools
District of Columbia Charter Schools
Fairfax County Public Schools
Ballou High School
Capital City Public Charter School*
Annandale High School
Benjamin Banneker Academic High School
Cesar Chasez Public Charter School– Capitol Hill Campus
Falls Church High School*
Columbia Heights Education Campus– Bell Multicultural
Friendship Collegiate Academy Perry Street Prep
J.E.B. Stuart High School* McLean High School*
SEED Public Charter School
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Thurgood Marshall Academy
W.T. Woodson High School
Montgomery County Public Schools
Prince George's County Public Schools
Independent Schools
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Central High School
Bullis School
Winston Churchill High School*
Parkdale High School*
Georgetown Day School
Richard Montgomery High School
Northwestern High School
Edmund Burke*
Luke C. Moore Academy School Without Walls Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School Woodrow Wilson High School
Rockville High School
Elizabeth Seton
Wheaton High School
Field School French International School* The Potomac School Sandy Spring Friends School Sidwell Friends School St. Andrews Episcopal School
Non-Profit Nominating Partners
Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Washington International School
Cathedral Scholars* For Love of Children Global Kids
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*Joined Fall 2012
I now see myself as a person who is completely devoted to helping those in need. -LearnServe Abroad Student 2012
DONORS Thank you to everyone who supported LearnServe International through your financial contributions, volunteer efforts, and enthusiasm. As a non-profit organization, LearnServe International depends on the generosity of all of you—our community—so that we can continue to foster a dynamic new generation of young global leaders and social entrepreneurs.
Champions
Gold
Allianz Foundation for North America The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Jean T. and Heyward G. Pelham Foundation Kimsey Foundation Joe Higdon and Ellen Sudow Fund/ Community Foundation for the National Capital Region Virginia Partners
Anonymous Wendy Blake-Coleman Amy Cohen Elizabeth Ginsburg Richard and Carol Hall The Henry Foundation Edward Johnson Kathy Kemper Donald Kozusko Nancy Kuhn and Roy Henwood David Selden John and Michelle Sun
$20,000 and up
Sustainers $5,000 or more Capital One Family Foundation Gus McIllhenny MedImmune Hugh and Louise Riddleberger Catherine and Tom Tinsley
Platinum
$1,000-$4,999 Stuart and Luci Altman Clean Currents LLC Elizabeth and Kenneth Close Sam and Deborah Hastings-Black Martin and Andrea Kalin Institute for Education Ellen and Richard Miller OFFICEPRO, Inc. Matthew and Anita Rechler Martha and Robert Vicas Richard and Joann Weiner
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$500-$999
Silver
$250-$499 Usha Ahluwalia Vinita Ahuja Lola Anjou Alyssa Blevins Ginea Briggs Julie Caccamise Ginger Cobb David Connell Keven Cotton James Cunningham Paul Dieffenbach and Suzana Zorca Scott Gilman Beth Groeneman Jennifer Hoover John Hutchinson Rebecca Karli Katherine and Arnaud Lebegue Joseph Lipscomb and Laura Will Kate Meenan-Waugh Joseph Presley Barbara Ramundo Caitlin Reilly Anthony Shop
Catherine Sobieszczyk Tina Thuermer Aletcia Whren Deborah Wilchek Heather Wilson
Bronze
$100-$249 Anonymous Stephen Barnes Marsha Beller Mario Bravo and Brandel France de Bravo Kaushal Challa and Shaline Rao Darcy and Suzanne Curran Alana Davidson Denise and Richard Dorn Jonathan Ebinger and Leslie Kahn Bruce Ellisen and Luzmila Asqui Emanuel Faust and Irene Korsak Matthew Gray Sidney and Wendy Hoffman Craig Janes Karen Kalish Elizabeth Kastor Allyson Knox and Mark Solheim Katherine Lofft Charles Matiella Ann and John Montgomery, National Christian Foundation Elizabeth Morgan Maureen Murphy Matthew Olsen and Fern Shepard Stephen Palley and Kathryn Stein Robert Peck and Lynn Palmer William Price Edith Quintrell Cheryl Reid Michael Ringland Craig Rocklin John and Anne Rollins
Roberta Samet Seymour and Elaine Samet Sara Schoen So What Else Mike and Susan Sorrells Nils Tcheyan Axel van Trotsenburg and Magda Khouzam Bradford Walker
Friends
Under $100 Jonathan and Katrina Barlow Andrea Beller Sarah Beller Laura Bellows Aaron Beitman and Eliza Roberts Bea Birman and Mary Malgoire Michael and Deborah Brant Orlando Carvajal Soniya Carvalho Sascha Van Creveld Leonore Cunningham Yasuko Despertt Benjamin Dreyfus and Elizabeth Richman Rebecca Ennen Janean Eskin Jacob and Suzanne Feinspan Glen Fine and Beth Heifetz Naomi Freeman Jessica Gordon Liora Halperin Benjamin Siracusa Hillman and Betty Luther Hillman Iklectic Laura Jaynes Sabine Keinath and Talib Esmail Mostafa Khadraoui Janice Barnett King Christopher Kramer and Katherine Burghardt Kramer Bracha and John Laster Christine Leicht Flora Lindsay-Herrera Robert Levy Jessica Lipps Barbara Maddox Benjamin Magarik Margot Lefevre Mahoney Lisa Manning Kenneth Melo Ethan Merlin and Joelle Novey Lisa Morenoff Nadine Myrie Matthew and Suzanne Picard Kerry Rader Jeffrey Rechler Scott Rechler
Recoup Mark Reichart Adina Rosenbaum Peter and Carolyn Saba Benjamin Solomon-Schwartz Gisela Soriano Melanie Stettz Erika Tauber Earl Thorpe Deloitte United Way Betsy Wanger Timothy Weiner Ari Weisbard Jin Wu
In Support of Projects in Zambia (Z), Paraguay (P),or Jamaica (J) Anonymous (Z) Anonymous (P) Herb Altman (Z) Stuart and Luci Altman (Z) Carlton Ackerman (J) Irene Briggs (J) J.M. Bryan (Z) Ruth Budd (Z) Stair Calhoun (Z) Annette and Dennis Clauge (Z) Ty Cobb (Z) Melanie Daub and Marc Sickel (Z) Janine Daub (Z) Thelma and Ronald Daub (Z) Victor and Rosario Delgado (Z) Maria Drees (Z) Joan and John Eisenberg (Z) Steven and Janean Eskin (P) Beverly Floyd (J) Daniel and Mary C French (Z) Beau Scott and Kathryn Kelly Garverick (Z) Rachael Gibson (J) Christy Gosnell and Advanced Placements, LLC (P) Rodolfo and Aida Gutierrez (Z) Ann S. Hannapel (Z) Loreta and Ricky Helton (Z) John and Caroline Hillkirk (Z) K. Hornstein (Z) Eswaran Jeyarajah (Z) James Koch and Leann M. Johnson (Z) Hope Lambert (Z) Carol Lane (Z) Barbara Maddox (P) TJ Martens (Z) C. Russ and Angela Melton (Z) Elizabeth Morgan (P) Rachel Figueroa Mullane (Z) Uyen Nguyen (Z) Shera Parker (Z) Doug Paul (Z)
Margot Pave (Z) Mark Pederson and Yung Min Kim (Z) Cristal Piper (J) Leslie Ann Platt and Mark Staniorski (Z) Charlotte and Maurice Potosky (Z) J.H. Prowitt (Z) Cary, Carey, and Brenda Reid (Z) Mark Rinaldi and Claudia Moran (Z) Scott Robbin (Z) SEED School of Washington, DC (Z) Peggy and Ronald Shapera (Z) Julia Shields and C. Edward Peartree (Z) William Sickel (Z) Ruth and Donald Silverstein (J) Luanne and Neal Smith (Z) John and Michelle Sun (J) Arzu Tuncata and Murat Tarimcilar (J) Lydia Teinfalt (Z) Richard and Joann Weiner (Z) Timothy Weiner (Z) Igor Zumrov (Z)
The following organizations have donated time, materials, and/or space The Beanbag Deli & Catering Bernstein Wealth Management Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, MCPS DC Public Schools Deloitte U.S. Department of Education Embassy of Jamaica Embassy of Paraguay Embassy of Zambia George Washington University, School of Business GW Graduate Consulting Group (Carlos Figueroa-Bracho, Shruti Garhwal, Nathaniel Ho, David Mitchell) Giant Foods Honest Tea Kozusko Harris Duncan LLP One World Education Ron Brown Scholar Program Safeway School Without Walls, DCPS Sidley Austin LLP So What Else Staples Urban Strategies Youth Venture/Ashoka Wannen & Company Washington International School
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TEAM AND PARTNERS LearnServe Board of Directors Christopher Barclay Amy Cohen Scott Gilman Richard Hall Sam Hastings-Black Ned Johnson Kathy Kemper Don Kozusko Nancy Kuhn Barbara Ramundo Hugh Riddleberger Sambia Shivers-Barclay Catherine Tinsley Richard Weiner
Montgomery County Board of Education Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service, George Washington University JapanQuest Journeys Retired, Washington International School Retired, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP PrepMatters Institute for Education Kozusko Harris Duncan LLP Retired, Business Higher Education Forum; College Summit Professionals for Non-Profits Founder, LearnServe International U.S. Department of Education Chair, LearnServe International Sidley Austin LLP
LearnServe Advisory Board* Vida Anderson Tammy Bah James Cunningham Jennifer Drew Robert Egger Anna Gemolas Matthew Gray Geoff Jones Martin Kalin Michael Kimsey Anthony Shop Judy Stephenson Sam Taussig James Taylor Deborah Wilchek
Coldwell Banker; Girl Scouts LearnServe Alum; St. Mary's College School Without Walls RoundBrush LLC; Children's International Summer Villages DC Central Kitchen FourWords LLC RBC Wealth Management (through August 2012) The Potomac School MK Technology LLC Kimsey Foundation Social Driver OFFICEPRO, Inc. LearnServe Alum, Sewanee University Capital One Rockville High School
*as of November 2012
Staff Sabine Keinath Scott Rechler
Director and COO Director and CEO
Eric Goldstein Maisha Duncan Maurice Wilkins
Fellows Program Leader Fellows Program Manager Fellows Program Assistant Leader
Gaby Grebski Rosemarie McBean Jeremy Young
LearnServe Zambia Co-Leader LearnServe Zambia Co-Leader LearnServe Zambia Co-Leader
Caitlin Reilly Bryan Whitford Domingo Alonso
LearnServe Paraguay Co-Leader LearnServe Paraguay Co-Leader LearnServe Paraguay Co-Leader
Ginea Briggs
LearnServe Jamaica Co-Leader
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Volunteers Tasha Harris Shelley Rood Rosi Rivarola Ben Magarik Sukai Sey Michael Emery Nathan Bynum Ashton White
Guest Presenters and Facilitators Rachel Centariczki, Jacqui Kemp, Youth Venture Todd McKinney, Katherine Nolan, For Love of Children Sarah Beller, Daryn Cambridge, guest facilitators Aaron Jenkins, Operation Understanding DC Kristin Schulz, Clean Currents Diana Villa and Lizzete Arias Jackie Shafir Mazi Mutafa, Words, Beats, Life Jon Rybka, DCPS Kate Stein, Rich Storey, Lauren Foster, Deloitte Evan Piekara, Georgetown Business School Capital One Judy Stephenson, Ken Pilpel, OFFICEPRO Steve Ma, Live Green Anna Gemolas, FourWords LLC Joseph Peralta, Posse Foundation David Silbert and Robert Schless, So What Else Dan Elitzer, Grameen Foundation Tiffani Morris, Ashoka Talib Esmail, World Bank Travis Adkins Courtney Wright Sam Taussig And a big thank you to all of our panelist reviewers, mentors, and event volunteers!
LearnServe Paraguay Partners Centro Cultural Comunitario de Santa Ana Cuerpo de Paz Paraguay Colegio Nacional Victoriano Vernal, Isla Puku Comedor San Roque, Isla Puku Colegio San Jose, Asuncion
LearnServe Zambia Partners Africa Directions Chikumbuso Daughter's Vision Malambo School, Monze World Bicycle Relief
LearnServe Jamaica Partners KBC Learning Blue Mountain Project The Source Farm Ecovillage
LearnServe Alumni Leaders (2011-12) Matthew Baldwin Niani Cunningham Marwa Eltahir Caroline Lebegue Daniel Park Xiomara Rojas-Asqui Mary Sun
LearnServe Advisors (2011-12)* Usha Ahluwalia Vinita Ahuja Lola Anjou Alyssa Blevins Ginea Briggs Julie Caccamise Paul Cammer Thomas Chorman Ginger Cobb David Connell Keven Cotton James Cunningham Zoe Fried Gaby Grebski Beth Groeneman Rasha Hashem Jennifer Hoover Catherine Hutchinson Rebecca Karli Kate Meenan-Waugh Cynthia Montgomery Joseph Presley Takisha Reece Caitlin Reilly Catherine Sobieszczyk Kelley Thompson Tina Thuermer Bryan Whitford Aletcia Whren Deborah Wilchek Heather Wilson
*faculty or staff at LearnServe partner schools
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Thank you for your support—we look forward to hearing from you!
LearnServe opened my eyes to the vast world of challenges we face, but more importantly, it gave me the keys—the knowledge, skills, and community—to devise solutions. -LearnServe Fellow 2010
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The world is small. Think Big. The world is small. Think Big.