Shanée Brown '12
Home Town: Bridgeport, CT
Major: English
Tucker Program: Habitat for Humanity, SEAD
History with Tucker: "I volunteered with SEAD and started volunteering for Habitat for Humanity my sophomore year. I became a Habitat Chair junior year, and now this year I have been the student director."
What Tucker Means to Me: "Tucker is a huge resource. Without the Tucker Foundation acting as an organizational umbrella for so many service programs on campus, students would be lacking in so many important volunteer opportunities."
The Tucker Foundation hires, each year, a Dartmouth graduate student to service as the Berthold Fellow for Faith and Service. The Berthold Fellow is tasked with developing opportunities to explore the intersection between faith, belief, and service.
The fellowship is named for Rev. Fred Berthold, Jr. '44, who was the first dean of the Tucker Foundation.
The application (doc) for 2012-13 is due May 7, 2012. Contact Assistant Chaplain Kurt Nelson with questions.
Kemi Adedokun is currently a second year student in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program and is writing her thesis with plans to graduate in June 2012. She hails from the south and grew up in Murfreesboro, Tenn., where she attended the Webb School. She went on to obtain her bachelor’s degree in international studies from Oakwood University in Hunstville, Ala., keeping in the tradition of her family who all (yes, aunts and uncles included) attended before her and still attend now (brother and cousins). She loves to spend her free time reading blogs, watching her favorite YouTube subscriptions, reading for pleasure (a very rare treat in grad school!), and watching foreign art-house films that are sometimes cryptic and others refuse to watch with her. She is deeply passionate about service and plans to make that "calling" a lifelong pursuit as an international human rights lawyer. She feels that the most important aspect of her life has been her deeply-ingrained spirituality and would like to share how grounding that has been for her with others through her project.
Kemi says: "My project is an extension of the Voices of Faith program that took place Tuesday, November 8, 2011, in Collis Common Ground. I am seeking out the personal accounts of spiritual experiences and what spurred the impetus to believe in a higher power from students,staff, and faculty. The reflections only have to be 250-500 words long and the prompts are, 'What made you believe in something greater than yourself?', 'What is the most meaningful experience that you have had spiritually?', and 'Why is religion important to you?' and 'What are some of the influences (things, people, and influences ) that have caused you to identify with your particular religious preferences or take none at all?' I was inspired to create this project from my love of blogs and the series Americans Talk About Love on Salon.com by author John Lowe. The weekly series shared a story of an American couple and their journey towards or away from love. I thought, 'What if I did that with faith and belief?' Thus my project was born."
Read Kemi's blog at Stories of Faith at Dartmouth and follow her on Twitter at @storiesoffaith.
