Alumni & Friends
Majora Inspiration
Last week we were thrilled to host acclaimed Social-Entrepreneur, Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, and MacArthur Genius, Majora Carter, as part of our Friday Night Speaker Series.
October 5, 2022
Alumni & Friends
Watch: BIPOC Mentorship Program Panel Discussion
Watch the recording of Program Spotlight: Connecting Students and Alumni Through Our BIPOC Mentorship Program. We created this program in 2020 to provide additional support for Maine Coast Semester students who identify as members of underrepresented communities by pairing them with near-peer mentors.
February 16, 2022
Alumni & Friends
Meet a Mentor: Jhovaé Irving
Jhovaé Irving is an alumna of Maine Coast Semester 48 and one of our BIPOC Mentorship program volunteers. We created the mentorship program in 2020 to provide additional support for semester students who identify as members of minoritized racial groups by pairing them with neer-peer mentors. Irving says volunteering has been a learning experience for her as well, “I’m in awe of how differently [my mentees] have approached uncomfortable topics. They’ve shown me how to be braver and speak up a little more, even if it’s on a thorny subject.”
February 10, 2022
Alumni & Friends
The Cross-Disciplinary Future of Land Stewardship?
For the past three years, alumna Sarah Klain has been collaborating with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation to create a land stewardship plan for Boa Ogoi, a 585-acre parcel in southeastern Idaho where the US Army Cavalry and settlers massacred over 400 tribe members in 1863. But, how does one begin to “restore” land in a climate-changed future?
December 6, 2021
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Building Skills to Support LGBTQ+ Youth
This Wednesday, thirty-five staff members joined a 3-hour workshop presented by OUT Maine called Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth in Schools and Community. “It was super valuable,”
September 2, 2021
Alumni & Friends
Watch: Art, Ecology, Equity; A Conversation with Sue West
Art, Ecology, Equity: Celebrating Sue West’s Four Decades at Chewonki Sue West in Conversation with Amy Rogers Watch Now Sue West started working at Chewonki
July 15, 2021
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Intervening Against Hate and for Community
During the month of May, my colleagues and I at Chewonki, facilitated by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, have been learning together in recognition of both Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. We are alarmed by the rise in harassment targeting these groups, which has been growing since 2016, according to information from Statista and the Anti-Defamation League. Our mission “challenges people to build thriving, sustainable communities throughout their lives,” and hate has no place in that work on this collective home we share – planet Earth.
May 29, 2021
Alumni & Friends
Corbin Percy Hacks Games for Accessibility
Our alumni go on to all kinds of careers, and most often, we highlight those working in ecology and the outdoors. So, our ears perked
May 26, 2021
Board and Trustees
Promise, Focus, and Action
Remarks from the Board Chair, Spring 2021 *Editor’s note: the following comments were recently delivered by Board Chair Roseanne Saalfield to our trustees and advisors
May 5, 2021
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
President’s Report: A Year Unlike Any Other
2020 has been a year unlike any other. In my role as the president of Chewonki, it is my pleasure to provide you with a
November 1, 2020
