Jan Tarjan is the Senior Program Officer for Local Service at the Tucker Foundation of Dartmouth College. The Foundation’s local programming involves approximately 1,300 Dartmouth students annually, in over thirty ongoing student-led service projects and special events in the Upper Valley area surrounding Dartmouth.
Jan began her career in higher education administration as an officer in Dartmouth’s Admissions in 1975. After several years, she moved to the Tucker Foundation. During her years at the Tucker Foundation, Jan has directed other programs, including the Jersey City Urban Internship; Tucker Fellowships; Dartmouth Partners in Community Services Internships; the Kicking Horse and Upper Valley Internship Programs; the Eastern European Work Camp program; a pilot internship program between Dartmouth and the Peace Corps, which later became the nation-wide Peace Corps and Campus Compact “Going Global” program and the Tucker Retreats. Jan participated in the inaugural “Project Preservation”, which focuses students on Holocaust history and involves them in service-learning trips to Auschwitz-Birkenau and the restoration of Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe.
Jan also serves on the Boards of local non-profit organizations and professional organizations, including COVER Home Repair and the Upper Valley United Way. She served on the Board of Trustees of the Twin Pines Affordable Housing Trust and was a founding board member of the Children’s Literacy Foundation of New Hampshire and Vermont. She was a founding member of Campus Compact for New Hampshire, an organization that promotes community and public service in academia and served on the board of the Consortium for Excellence in Educational Partnerships.
A member of the Dartmouth Class of 1974, Jan came to Dartmouth as a transfer student in the first year of coeducation. She resides in Lyme Center, NH with husband Raymond Brewester ’75, and has two grown daughters.
