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 […]
Service Corps Reflections
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 […]
Meet Emily J.
When I was considering what to do after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in May of 2018, Johnson Service Corps was not really at the top of my list – and I mean literally, because when I listed out the Episcopal Service Corps sites I was interested in, JSC was at the very bottom. I was […]
Alumni Spotlight – Rebecca Ogus
My name is Rebecca Ogus and I’m a postulant for Holy Orders in the Diocese of North Carolina, seeking ordination to the priesthood, and second year seminarian at Berkeley Divinity School, the Episcopal seminary at Yale Divinity School. I participated in the Johnson Service Corps after graduating from Kenyon College in 2014 with a degree […]
Alumni Spotlight – Annmarie McCaig Todd
I joined the Johnson Internship Program (as it was called in the beginning) almost 20 years ago. I had been raised in the church and was active in a campus ministry at my college, but living with two other women during the program was my first experience with Christian community out in the world. We […]