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 […]
Service Corps 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 […]
Tasha’s End of Year Reflections
Hello everyone! My name is Tasha Graham, one of the soon-to-be “graduating” fellows here at the Johnson Service Corps. It’s wild to think that our program year is almost up. These past 10.5 months have flown by, but the end came slowly somehow. I came into this program with so many goals in mind. One […]
Dina’s April Reflections
Hello everyone! I last wrote my blog post in October. Wow, time has flown. April has been a good month. We have had many things going on such as starting the Praxis project amongst all the other Friday formation stuff and work. We are definitely being kept busy! As our year starts to wrap up, […]
Lynn’s March Reflections
Hello JSC Community! This is Lynn speaking! I did the first blog post back in August (gosh, can you believe how time has flown), so I have tons of stuff to talk about! The focus, though, of this blog post is going to be my journey into integrating with Durham. For those who don’t know, […]