Vanderbilt Career Center

Vanderbilt Career Center

NonProfit Panel
Monday, November 16th 2009
4:00-5:00pm
Student Life Center, Mtg Room 3
RSVP: email courtney.dial@vanderbilt.edu

Interested in nonprofits? Meet the Career Center nonprofit coach and learn more about the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship. Hear two current fellows, Jennifer Bailey and Sarah Shubitowski,... speak of their experiences in the nonprofit sector. To read their biographies and learn more about the Hunger Fellowship, see below and visit their website.

The Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship, a project of the Congressional Hunger Center, is a unique leadership development opportunity for motivated individuals seeking to make a difference in the struggle to eliminate hunger and poverty.

Each year 20 participants are selected for this eleven-month program. Fellows are placed for half their term of service with urban and rural community-based organizations all over the country involved in fighting hunger at the local level, such as grass roots organizing groups, food banks, economic development agencies, local advocacy groups and faith-based organizations. They then move to Washington, DC to complete the year with national organizations involved in the anti-hunger and poverty movement, including national advocacy organizations, think tanks, and federal agencies.

Through this unique program, the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program develops effective leaders with a deep understanding of hunger and poverty at both the local and national level that enables them to find innovative solutions and create the political will to end hunger.

Jennifer Bailey
Field Placement: Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee (Nashville, TN)
Jennifer is organizing religious communities to bring full-service grocery stores to three "food deserts" in Nashville. She is developing an interfaith curriculum to train young people of faith to be effective food justice organizers in their communities. Jennifer is also designing a best practices guide for dismantling structural racism within food security organizations.

Education and Experience: An Illinois native, Jennifer is a 2009 graduate of Tufts University with a degree in political science. At Tufts, she served as a Citizenship and Public Service Scholar, President of the Emerging Black Leaders, Student Representative to the Board of Trustees, and member of the Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir. She has mentored and taught young people from Boston and Peru and interned with the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core. Jennifer is a 2008 Harry S. Truman Scholar.

Sarah Shubitowski
Field Placement: Manna Inc. (Nashville, TN)
Sarah is building relationships within immigrant and refugee communities and doing food stamp program outreach, occasionally in Spanish, to potentially eligible individuals. She is developing a Food Stamp Program Outreach Handbook train caseworkers already working with potentially eligible individuals and designing and conducting a survey of Food Stamp Program applicants to evaluate outreach efforts and compile best practices.

Education and Experience: Originally from Midland, MI, Sarah attended Calvin College, spending a semester in Honduras before graduating in 2006 with a degree in elementary education and Spanish. Since college, she has taught second grade at San Jeronimo Bilingual School in Honduras and served an AmeriCorps term working as a Site Coordinator for National Student Partnerships in Evanston, IL. In this capacity she worked with the Alliance to End Homelessness, collaborated with Northwestern University student groups to plan Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week events, supervised a volunteer income tax assistance site, and connected low-income individuals to resources leading to economic independence.
To learn more, visit http://www.hungercenter.org/national/national.htm
To RSVP, email Courtney.dial@vanderbilt.edu
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