Hello, JSC community! I have been quite busy since graduating from JSC almost a year ago. That is still so wild to say! I got into grad school! Funny enough, I found out about the acceptance a few weeks after my JSC year ended. I got accepted into the Master of Fine Arts Animation program […]
Alumni Reflections
JSC Alum Reflection: Macie Bridge
When I think of my year with Johnson Service Corps, I generally find myself both delighted and astonished. Delighted, because: Wow! So many amazing people! So much fun! So much deep and generous listening and transformation and worship and growth! Astonished, because: How did that possibly all fit into only eleven months?? I had the […]
JSC Alum Reflection: Rebecca Ogus
Ten years ago, three nights of the week, you could find me in a duplex on Greene Street in Chapel Hill, sitting around the table and eating family dinner with my seven JSC housemates. We had five bedrooms, shared an $800 food allowance, each worked a different social justice non-profit job four days a week, […]
Partner Organization Spotlight: Code the Dream
Reid Russom – Volunteer and Data Coordinator at Code the Dream, 2024-2025 Supervisor, 2019-2020 JSC Alum I’m Reid Russom, Volunteer and Data Coordinator at Code the Dream—and a proud alum of Johnson Service Corps. I’m thrilled to see these two incredible organizations partnering to create meaningful change. At Code the Dream, we envision a world […]
JSC Alum Reflection: Callie Swaim-Fox
Callie spent the year before Divinity School living and working in the South of Spain in Jerez de la Frontera. Here she was visiting Portugal with her family. It was a really incredible year! I was a corps member in the Durham house of JSC from 2021-2022. My placement site was the Pauli Murray Center […]
JSC Alum Reflection: Emma Sternlof
It’s hard to believe I began my JSC journey in August 2013, more than eleven years ago! JSC brought me to beautiful North Carolina, where I met my beloved husband and continue to make a home. The program gave me the skills and nonprofit experience I needed to enter the reproductive rights and justice sector, where I’m still […]
JSC Reflection: Jean Martinez
Fresh off a four-year bender meant to enlighten me to be a better grown-up and to activate me for a career that I studied “hard” for, I left Shippensburg empty and ignored that after this summer of working at camp in Maryland, I would have exactly zero ideas on what to do next. This will […]
Alumni Spotlight – Jean Martinez
It’s already been seven years since the last day I walked out of the house that we all called home back on Greene street. As I lean more into my role as a not-so-young adult and speak to younger folks or when they need an ear to listen to them or a person to sit […]
Alumni Spotlight – Reid Russom
One of my favorite moments from my year with Johnson Service Corps came right at the end. I was anxious and distracted, applying for jobs, making plans to move, and repeatedly checking the most recent COVID-19 numbers (a habit I slowly forced myself to kick). I was also feeling the anticlimax of the ending. A […]
Alumni Spotlight – Joanna Barnett
Joanna is an alum from our 2014-15 cohort. She recently published a book of poems entitled “Snake Pit”. You can purchase a copy by clicking here. You can also view videos of her performing select pieces of poetry on her YouTube page, here. One weekday evening, over dinner, my roommates were discussing the imminent full […]