Jazmin Locke
As a member of the Posse Foundation’s first Civic Engagement Posse at Mount Holyoke College, Jazmin has advocated for community involvement as a way to address inequalities within the social and political infrastructures that serve the public. Through this journey, Jazmin found her passion as an Environmental Studies major. From preserving ecosystems, keeping communities safe […]
The Maculele Garden
The Maculele Garden includes a community fruit and vegetable garden that would serve as a platform for environmental and health education. This program will provide the opportunity for urban youth to work hands on in a garden in a challenged Pembroke Park, Florida neighborhood and supplement the physical education of capoeira with better nutrition and […]
Lilith Winkler-Schor
Lilith Winkler-Schor is a German-American born in Munich, Germany and raised in Seattle Washington. She is pursuing a Social Policy and Practice coordinate major with Political Science and minoring in Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship at Tulane University. Lilith was raised in a family of travelers and has visited over 25 countries on 5 different […]
Jessica Roberts
Jessica Roberts began her passion for human rights advocacy and social equality in her hometown of San Diego, California. In high school, she created a club dedicated to fostering a safe space for atheists and religious students to meet and discuss their varying ideologies without judgment. She was also heavily active in the campaign to […]
Amy Fottrell
Amy is a Nashville native who graduated from Tulane University in 2015 with majors in Social Policy and Practice and International Development. While living in New Orleans, which is the prison capital of the world, she became passionate about restoring dignity to individuals who have been involved in the criminal justice system, so she started […]
Roots of Renewal
Roots of Renewal is a community development non profit working in New Orleans to break cycles of poverty and crime. The organization employs formerly incarcerated young men to renovate blighted properties in Central City, one of the most dangerous and impoverished communities in the city. While working on the property, the program participants receive hands-on […]
Dawn Musil
Dawn Musil is studying Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University. She has been an avid beekeeper since she was fourteen and realized those skills could be utilized to reach disadvantaged communities when she went abroad with Semester at Sea in Spring 2014. She plans on pursuing medical school after graduating in […]
Hayley Gocha
Hayley Gocha is a student at the University of Colorado, where she expects to graduate with a BFA in Costume Design and Technologies in 2015. In the last few years, her interests have moved toward improving human rights and ending social conflict around the world. She intends to use her design and tech skills to […]
Nora Benson
Nora Benson is a junior in the University of Illinois General Engineering program with a concentration in Design and minors in Innovation and International Engineering. She has a long-standing interest in business development and designing for good and has worked with various organizations on international design projects including assisting with the design and building of […]
Bee the Change
Dawn, Hayley, and Nora will bring beekeeping skills and supplies to economically-disadvantaged people in the United States and beyond. Dawn, an experienced beekeeper, and her team will bring standardized apiary designs that can be built from simple wood and mesh to communities in need of job creation and economic empowerment. Five beehives, with associated equipment […]
