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Lund Award recipients lead efforts to serve Main South children

Community work includes arts education, mentorship of girls
Clark alumni offer students insight into community-organizing careers

Be passionate, be focused — and get angry — when driving change, they advise
Nia Slater-Bookhart ’19, MAT ’20, receives Mechanics Hall honor

Collegiate Apprentice Award recognizes leadership, creativity, and community involvement
Brett Iarrobino ’21 has more than an idea about his future

Clark senior nurtures his passion for teaching through work with Main South students
Anna Spack ’16 puts her Clark degree to work for Project Bread

One in 10 Massachusetts households — more than 726,000 people — is food-insecure, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Clark University alumna Anna Spack ’16 is working to combat the problem. Spack, who majored in communication and culture, and Spanish, at Clark, is communications coordinator for Boston-based Project Bread. The organization’s mission is to “prevent…
Clark students, alumni spend spring break renovating flooded homes in Baton Rouge

Eighteen Clark undergraduate students and two alumni volunteers took a 27-hour bus ride to spend their March spring break in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, restoring abandoned buildings and demolishing homes destroyed by the catastrophic floods of August 2016. News coverage of the Clark students’ volunteer work in Baton Route, Louisiana. They joined forces with three dozen more…
Left to their own devices: Management students teach retirees the joys of technology

Undergraduates who take Clark University’s The Art and Science of Management, a First-Year Intensive course, accrue skills that prepare them for careers in businesses or nonprofit organizations. They also gain experience by designing a project to share those skills with a community organization, a course requirement. A team of students in a course section taught by Maria…
Clark student inspired to bring change locally and globally

Erica Issenberg ’18 takes 'Challenge Convention. Change Our World' to heart in Worcester, Ho Chi Minh City — and beyond
Clark students study youth culture in Cuba

Cuba has often been referred to as an island nation that is “stuck in time.” However, Crystal Hill ’20, a women’s and gender studies major, was pleasantly surprised to notice that while the city of Havana included classic ’50s Cadillacs and relics from years past, it also contained billboards about modern-day social problems such as…
Lisa Musumba’s Clark education crosses cultures

Clark University undergraduate Lisa Musumba ’19 of Nairobi, Kenya, has found a way to apply her multicultural experience and interdisciplinary education to help Spanish-speaking children in Worcester celebrate their heritage. Musumba, who is majoring in media, culture and the arts and minoring in English and Spanish, volunteers for the Herencia y Cultura Hispánicas, or Hispanic Culture…