Summer Community Service Fellowship (SCSF)
Support undergraduates interested in public and community service careers
The Harvard Club of Seattle's Summer Community Service Fellowship supports Harvard undergraduates pursuing public service work at local non-profit organizations. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $8,000, and fellows are expected to devote at least eight weeks of full-time involvement to their public service project. Housing and living arrangements are the responsibility of the recipient, as are any costs incurred greater than the stipend amount.
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Past Summer Community Service Fellows
2024 Fellow, Naomi Bashkansky '25
Full time intern at the U.S. AI Safety Institute (U.S. Dept of Commerce) working on AI safety policy including preparing Talking Points (TPs), supporting the writing of memorandums for AISI leadership team, offering feedback on technical guidance, attending meetings and capturing feedback and executing on special projects.
2023 Fellow, Abigail McElroy '24
Full-time summer internship with Beloved Arise, a nonprofit based in Seattle, WA which uplifts and celebrates LGBTQIA+ young people of faith through storytelling, advocacy and outreach, and community building.
2022 Fellow, Israel Perez '23
Joy and the Hood offers a transformative experience to low-income BIPOC youth to equip youth with essential wellness tools that can help navigate challenging emotions like stress and sadness taught by wellness instructors of color.
2021 Fellow, Joseph Winters '21
I had a wonderful 10 weeks interning at the environmental nonprofit 350 Seattle in 2 two discrete roles: helping to coordinate the organization’s electoral endorsements, and helping to lead an initiative to build labor-environment solidarity in the fight for a citywide Green New Deal (GND). Read his reflection paper (PDF).
2020 Fellow, Joseph Winters '21
Editorial intern at Grist, a nonprofit environmental news outlet based in Seattle. Grist was founded in 1999 as “a beacon in the smog” — a hopeful yet candid voice of climate justice in a world that still couldn’t come to grips with the realities of climate change.
2020 Fellow, Anastasiia Antiukhina '23
Working remotely from the Ukraine, Anastasiia completed two part-time SCSF internships with Entre Hermanos and Seattle's Refugee Resettlement Office. A rising junior on leave, Anastasiia is studying Economics, Psychology, and Humanitarian Aid and Development.
2020 Fellow, Tessa Wood '21
Serving remotely from Shelton, WA, rising Senior Tessa was extremely successful at recruiting 145 tutors for Seattle World School and identifying potential funders to support Seattle World School's mission of welcoming of low-income immigrant and refugee children and teens as they navigate US-based middle and high schools for the first time while learning English (over 96% of students are low-income, all are English language learners, and nearly 30% are experiencing homelessness.
2019 Fellow, Taylor Joyce '19
Concentrating in Linguistics on the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Track, Taylor has been inspired by her ASL studies and by Boston's Deaf community. Before beginning her PhD in Linguistics at UT Austin, she assisted with planning and staffing for Deaf and Children and Deaf Adults summer camps at Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services.
2018 Fellow, Ellie Bernstein '20
Hailing from Sammamish, Washington, Ellie returned to the Pacific Northwest this summer to intern at the Seattle Pediatric Concussion Research Collaborative. This Collaborative is a joint initiative of the Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Washington. Concentrating in Neurobiology, Ellie gained meaningful real world experiences and learned about the management of sports-related concussions in low-resource Latinx communities in Greater Seattle.
2017 Fellow, Joseph Winters '20
A native of rural Washington, Joseph has fostered his passion for the environment as a volunteer, bike advocacy program founder, and Freshman Representative for Harvard's Resource Efficiency Program. This summer, Joseph pursued a fellowship with the Wenatchee River Institute, a nonprofit devoted to connecting communities to nature through education.
2015 Fellow, Becca Ramos '17
Dedicated to improving global development and maternal health conditions, Becca worked at One by One, a local non-profit organization that strives to eliminate obstetric fistula, a condition that affects more than two million women and girls across the globe, and improve the lives of those living with this injury. For more on her experience, read her reflection paper.
2014 Fellow, Christian Shigley '17
Planning a career in medicine, Christian spent his summer conducting medical research on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), a chronic, incurable, and only minimally treatable ailment that affects 100,000 Washingtonians. He worked under the supervision of Dr. James Lord at the Benaroya Research Institute of Virginia Mason Hospital.
2014 Fellow, Nancyrose Houston '15
An aspiring teacher, Nancyrose worked with Treehouse, a nonprofit organization that provides educational and other essential support to foster children in King County.
2014 Fellow, Justin Crichlow '18
As a rising freshman, Justin jumped right into his Harvard experience by serving as a Summer Community Service Fellow at St. Mary’s Place, an emergency family shelter in King County that provides immediate lodging and services to homeless women and their children.
2013 Fellow, Daniel Smith '17
Daniel worked with Imagine Housing, a nonprofit organization that develops subsidised housing complexes on the Eastside. Read his reflection letter (Download PDF, 37kb). Daniel was also featured as rookie of the week in October for his first collegiate goal in the Harvard versus Princeton men's soccer game (this goal resulted in a 2-1 win for Crimson and was the first time Harvard had won against Princeton since 2008).
2012 Fellow, George Hageman '12
George served as an intern in the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. You can learn more about George's fellowship by reading his reflection paper (Download PDF, 85kb).
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Address: 1700 7th Ave, Ste 116 #317 Seattle, WA 98101
Category: Education
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