Amanda Marinoff '12
Home Town: Plainview, New York
Major: Neuroscience with a minor in French
Tucker Program: ASPIRE
History with Tucker:Current Student Director of The Tucker Foundation and Founder of ASPIRE
What Tucker Means to Me: "I love The Tucker Foundation because Tucker draws together a really unique and diverse group of students bound together by passion. International, local, service, community building, social justice, spirituality ... whatever that passion might be, you can really see what drives people outside of the classroom when you work here."
Over half of the Dartmouth College student body participates in service annually through the Tucker Foundation. Students help to further social justice in the local area through local service; in the nation through internships and service trips; and in the world through fellowships and cross cultural trips.
And students learn deeply about themselves in the process, answering through their work the question first posed for students by Dean Berthold of the Tucker Foundation: "Who am I, and who ought I become?" One-time service opportunities, local service projects, internships, fellowships, and leadership through the Tucker Foundation all help students to make a difference and to apply their learning to real world issues.
