Kirsten Chang served with the 2017-2018 JSC cohort. I was at a JSC mixer event recently, and someone asked me, “What did you learn during your time as a Corps Member?” It was hard for me to answer. How do you distill a year’s worth of incredibly transformative experiences into a soundbite at a party? […]
Service Corps Reflections
Meet Bryar
Together we sit in a circle silently gazing at photographs strewn across the floor while the afternoon sunlight lazily filters in through the windows lining the opposite side of the room. There is an ease to the air, as if the silence has given permission to the day’s earlier movement, chaos, and conversation to take […]
New ESC Video — Take a Look!
~You can be you in community but also create something beautiful with other people~ The new Episcopal Service Corps video is up, and it is awesome.
Alumni Spotlight — Michael Mullarkey
My name is Michael Mullarkey, and I’m an alum from 2013-2014, back when JSC was JIP! I still remember one of my JSC interviewers asking me why I wanted to join the program. I had been out of college for a couple of years, sat at a lot of tension-filled kitchen tables as an intensive […]
Alumni Spotlight — Elizabeth Brewington
My name is Elizabeth Brewington (or Eliz the Woo Brew as I was called during my time at JSC). I served in Johnson Service Corp in 2017-2018 and lived in the Durham house (also known as the Durham Dames). My partner organization was the East Durham Children’s Initiative. During my time at EDCI, I help run their Youth […]
Meet Alisia
Last spring, I was preparing for the career fair at the University of Virginia and I saw that the Episcopal Service Corps would be there. When I arrived, I met Aleta, the Executive Director of the Johnson Service Corps. I was trying to find a gap-year program that would give me time to discern my […]
Alumni Spotlight — The Rev. Erica Long
I served with JSC in 2012-2013. During my time with JSC (JIP then!) I worked at the women’s halfway house at Freedom House Recovery Center. After my time with JSC, I pursued my dream to become a healthcare chaplain. I attended Harvard Divinity School and graduated with my master of divinity in 2016. During my […]
Alumni Spotlight — Jack Mitchell
My beginnings with the Johnson internship were marked by a whirlwind application process. I applied for the program almost exactly 18 years ago, just before the beginning of Holy Week 2001, and right at the end of the application period. I ended up writing the application on Palm Sunday. On Monday, I got an email […]
Meet Emerson
Almost a year out of Wellesley College, where I spent the last four years, I find myself reflecting on my journey to JSC and what the year has been like so far. I have to admit that JSC is one of those things that I reflect on and think, “if you had told me four […]
Alumni Spotlight — Sarah Wolff
I started in JSC in 2003, which amazingly was 16 years ago. I don’t want to think too much about the fact that today’s Corps Members were in preschool when I was going through this experience! Like me, the program has changed a lot in those years: The program has a larger group of young […]