on summer fellowship
Among the Yale students and new alumni who opted to spend their summer working on community service projects in New Haven are five individuals who were awarded Dwight Hall Summer Fellowships.
The 40-year-old Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship Program allows students to spend their summers pursuing a self-designed service project under the auspices of a community agency.
The fellows and their projects are:
Emma Barber, who graduated this spring with a degree in biology. She assists Yale health sciences students in the founding and operation of the New Haven Free Clinic, which operates on Saturdays in the Fair Haven neighborhood. She helps patients to secure social services while also promoting nutrition within the neighborhood. She is also training high school students from Durham to serve as peer health educators on the topic of HIV/AIDS. Barber is from Chicago, Illinois.
Polly Mygatt '07 is working at Community Mediation Inc., the oldest community-based mediation program in Connecticut. She is helping with a logistical overhaul of the Dialogue Project. Founded in 1997, the Dialogue Project has brought together more than 2,000 people from over 100 organizations to address discrimination within the New Haven community. Mygatt, who is majoring in American and international studies, hails from Rosemont, Pennsylvania.
Danielle K. Smith, another recent graduate, is working for the Urban Resource Initiative, a group whose mission is to foster community-based land stewardship, promote environmental education and advance the practice of urban forestry. Her specific project includes promoting environmental education in New Haven schools, coordinating activities at local "green spaces" and writing grants. Smith is from Waterbury, Connecticut.
David Tian '07 is working at the Hill Health Center, an organization committed to providing accessible, comprehensive and quality primary and behavioral health care to low-income and underserved residents in the Greater New Haven area. Tian's project entails increasing cooperation between local social service providers as well as raising awareness of available services within New Haven's homeless population. He is majoring in biology and comes from Evans, Georgia.
Amy Zwanziger '09 founded and directs the Summer Buds Program, which brings 30 middle school students from New Haven public schools onto Yale's campus, where they receive individual mentoring from a Yale student. Zwanziger runs the program in partnership with the New Haven Book Bank, which donates reading materials, and the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, which offers its facilities. She hails from West Newton, Massachusetts.
The Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship is coordinated by Lee Hiromoto, who graduated in May with a degree in Portuguese. Lee's past service with Dwight Hall includes youth mentorship at Wilbur Cross High School through Youth Together and participating in the Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship Program at the City of New Haven's Department of Traffic and Parking. He comes from Wahiawa, Hawaii.
The Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship Program is made possible this year by the generosity of donors including the New Alliance Foundation, the Yale Club of New Haven and the Yale Class of 1957.
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