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Helen Damon-Moore is Director of Service and Educational Programs.
Helen brings to Dartmouth over twenty years' experience in higher
education. From 2002 to 2007 she served as Curriculum and Learning
Community Coordinator at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine,
where she consulted on curriculum development, developed inter-disciplinary
teamwork education, established a service distinction track for medical
students, and advised student service and leadership activities.
 From 1994-2002 Helen
directed the Office of Volunteer Services and Service Learning at Cornell
College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, engaging over ¾ of the student body in community
service. She worked to establish the college's first service learning
courses herself as a faculty member in education and women's studies, and
she then consulted with other faculty to help create fourteen different
service- and community-based research courses in eleven different
disciplines. Helen is a founding member of Iowa Campus Compact and
Cornell College served as the first home for the group under her
direction. She co-chaired the Social Justice Interest Group of the
National Society for Experiential Education between 1998 and 2001.
Prior to entering academic administration Helen was adjunct professor of
women's studies and education. Her research interests include theories of
team development and function; theories of service learning and
community-based research; and gender and consumer culture. She is the
author of Magazines for the Millions: Gender and Commerce in the
Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post (1994). She has
served as a consultant to a number of colleges on service-learning curricula,
and she has advised several different projects on gender and the media,
including educational films. Helen also reviews articles and books
for publication, and she has served as a judge in the national Campus Compact
Swearingen Service Learning Competition and on the Iowa campus for the Oberman
Center Fellowship in Service Learning Awards. She has served on and
chaired the boards of several community organizations, including neighborhood
associations, the Inn-Circle Transitional Housing Program, and the Domestic
Violence Intervention Program in Iowa.
Helen earned her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her B.A.
in Sociology at Beloit College in Wisconsin. She is a native of Rangeley,
Maine.
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