Service Through Media Leadership
Each January, Park Scholar seniors participate in a one-week service trip in New Orleans, Louisiana, assisting with the Ninth Ward’s rebuilding efforts. This annual service experience is co-chaperoned by the program director and a Park Scholar alumna, and participants volunteer through local nonprofits. This year the scholar volunteered with Lowernine.org.
Through this service programming, Park Scholars not only complete “hands-on” volunteer work via rebuilding projects, but also utilize their media skills to document—and ultimately communicate—the city’s continued need for assistance.
While in New Orleans (and in the months immediately prior to the service trip), Scholars also participate in a series of discussions that situate their service in relation to examinations of social justice, race, urban development, educational policy and media representation.
This year’s participants were: Kaley Belval, Zachary Briggs, Jaclyn Cheri, Jessica Corbett, Maya Cueva, Leroy Farrell, Bethany George, Chelsea Hartman, Kaitlin Hulbert, Jennifer Jordan, Crystal Kayiza, Emily LaPierre, Lauren Mazzo, Mia O'Brien, Pete Quandt, Kenneth Robertson.
The Park Scholar Program is a scholarship community in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. In addition to offering a scholarship, it creates a dynamic learning community that develops future communications leaders who engage critically, act globally, and perform ethically. Through a mixture of academic and service programming, scholars are challenged to take action and give back to their communities, and to use the power of mass communication to make a positive impact on the world.
Through this service programming, Park Scholars not only complete “hands-on” volunteer work via rebuilding projects, but also utilize their media skills to document—and ultimately communicate—the city’s continued need for assistance.
While in New Orleans (and in the months immediately prior to the service trip), Scholars also participate in a series of discussions that situate their service in relation to examinations of social justice, race, urban development, educational policy and media representation.
This year’s participants were: Kaley Belval, Zachary Briggs, Jaclyn Cheri, Jessica Corbett, Maya Cueva, Leroy Farrell, Bethany George, Chelsea Hartman, Kaitlin Hulbert, Jennifer Jordan, Crystal Kayiza, Emily LaPierre, Lauren Mazzo, Mia O'Brien, Pete Quandt, Kenneth Robertson.
The Park Scholar Program is a scholarship community in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. In addition to offering a scholarship, it creates a dynamic learning community that develops future communications leaders who engage critically, act globally, and perform ethically. Through a mixture of academic and service programming, scholars are challenged to take action and give back to their communities, and to use the power of mass communication to make a positive impact on the world.