{"id":35155,"date":"2017-10-06T05:59:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=35155"},"modified":"2017-10-09T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T14:04:54","slug":"washington-community-scholars-find-insight-wisdom-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/washington-community-scholars-find-insight-wisdom-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall &#8217;17 Washington Community Scholars find insight, wisdom, inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eight students this fall are exploring life in Washington D.C. and gaining experience through internships in fields ranging from music therapy to journalism to immigration law as part of studies at Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/wcsc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Community Scholars&#8217; Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (WCSC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Garrett Siefer, spending a semester in the city hasn\u2019t just been a chance to develop what he learned in his classes on the Bluffton University campus. It\u2019s also been \u201cinsightful\u201d and \u201csurprising,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A broadcast and journalism major from Maumee, Ohio, Siefer is interning at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtondigitalmedia.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Digital Media<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where he does camera work, editing and website design, and is looking forward to his work being published. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI have been learning quite a bit using my studies in action now,\u201d he said. \u201cThe best time is doing video work and interacting with people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to his internship, a highlight for Siefer is seeing the history in Washington and exploring the city\u2019s culture, in part through assignments such as researching and writing about a specific street, to learn its back story. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of the time, he said, class \u201cdoes not feel like it is actual class. I really enjoy what we do there.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to Siefer, WCSC participants this fall include three Bluffton University and four EMU students. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anna Cammarn, a psychology and music major at Bluffton from Albertville, Minnesota, is interning with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/eccofdc.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Episcopal Center for Children<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where she assists a music therapist in group sessions, where the kids say \u201csilly things.\u201d She is learning, she said, how kind people are in the city.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Darian Cope, a liberal arts major at EMU from Watsontown, Pennsylvania, is interning with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lffp.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Little Friends for Peace<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and helps organize events, does paperwork and database management, and assists with the after-school program. \u201cThere is so much to explore\u201d in Washington, she said, \u201cand the culture here is so different, that I feel you can only truly experience it by living in it.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Katey Ebaugh, a sociology major at Bluffton from Holtwood, Pennsylvania, is interning with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholiccharitiesdc.org\/gethelp\/our-services\/immigrantsandrefugees\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Catholic Charities immigration division<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. There she writes closing letters on law cases and completes other organizational tasks. She said a highlight of her internship is hearing the stories of immigrants, and knowing that \u201ceven the little things are purposeful.\u201d And, she said, \u201cI love D.C.! There are many wonderful cultural things to experience, and we are close by it all.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luke Ragsdale, a speech pathology major at Bluffton from Gap, Pennsylvania, is working at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labschool.org\/page\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lab School of Washington<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peter Dutcher, a social work major at EMU from Limpytown, Ohio, is working with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dc.backonmyfeet.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back on My Feet,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a nonprofit organization that uses running to motivate and encourage life changes for people facing homelessness. Among his duties are connecting members to resources like housing, job skills training, and financial literacy, reaching out to volunteers, and running with members. He said the members \u201cprovide wisdom and inspiration\u201d in their stories, triumphs and low points, and have spoken at length about the role race places into a person\u2019s experience in D.C.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nazo Nwankwo, a social work major at EMU from Silver Spring, Maryland, is interning at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanthonyschooldc.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St. Anthony Catholic School<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and learning to understand the basic necessities of working with school children.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bethany Tuel, a writing studies major at EMU from Frederick, Maryland, is interning with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetsense.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Street Sense<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where she in part reports about the intersection of youth and education with homelessness, subjects she is passionate about. A unique bonus of living in the city, she said, is having food delivery options in the wee hours of the morning.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Learn more about spring 2018 internship openings a<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">t <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/wcsc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">emu.edu\/wcsc<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight students this fall are exploring life in Washington D.C. and gaining experience through internships in fields ranging from music therapy to journalism to immigration law as part of studies <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/washington-community-scholars-find-insight-wisdom-inspiration\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Fall &#8217;17 Washington Community Scholars find insight, wisdom, inspiration<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":35156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,17562,17571,356,5597,5183,5603,6287,12507,12632],"tags":[],"feature":[17427,17423,17426,17241],"class_list":["post-35155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applied-social-sciences","category-digest","category-internship","category-language-and-literature","category-liberal-arts","category-music","category-psychology","category-social-work","category-vaca","category-wcsc","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-featured-undergrad","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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