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AmeriCorps VISTA worker Jordan Davis along with Hamilton College Bonner Leaders Liam Ronan, Yoko O'Hara, Caroline Pantazis, Laura Gilson and Isabelle Van Hook made holiday cookies in Milbank for the Holiday Project. Bonner Leaders made 30 dozen cookies to be added to food boxes for families in the area during the holidays. Jordan Davis works as the Bonner Leader coordinator and outreach coordinator for a youth development project in the Levitt Center.

Having proven herself as a Bonner Leader, Emily Powell ’09 was awarded $1,000 as part of the CASE Foundation Grant secured through the Levitt Center last January to fund The Weaving Project. The success of the initial project, which was conducted in coordination with a Women's Studies course in Global Feminism, assisted the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees in securing additional funding to expand the undertaking.

Stefanie Russell '12, Jordan Fischetti '08 and Stephanie Wolter '07 attended the Bonner Summer Leadership Institute with Levitt Center Associate Director for Community Research Judith Owens-Manley in Deland, Fla., in June. The group presented two workshops at the conference: “Refugee & Immigrant Issues: Deepening Levels of Engagement” and “The Beginnings of a Youth Development Project: Challenges & Rewards.”

Judy Owens-Manley, director of the Bonner Leaders Program and Levitt Center associate director of community research; Jordan Fischetti '08 and Stephanie Wolter '07, both Hamilton graduates and AmeriCorps VISTA Service-Learning Coordinators at Hamilton; and Stefanie Russell '12, a Bonner Leader and Bonner Congress Representative presented two workshops at the Bonner Summer Leadership Institute on June 3-6.

On January 11 through 15, Hamilton first-year Bonner Leaders, under the direction of the Levitt Center and accompanied by AmeriCorps VISTA Project Coordinator and Bonner Leader Program Coordinator Jordan Fischetti '08, took a service trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico. The purpose of the trip was to volunteer at various service sites in an area that was culturally distinct from where the group is based. The trip also offered participants an opportunity to bond as a unit so as to enhance their joint endeavors on return to campus. Students who made the trip were Stefanie Russell, Yoko O'Hara, Caroline Pantazis, Liam Ronan, Laura Gilson and Henry Edelson.