Emily Badgett

C'20 Canale Intern | South Cumberland Community Fund

South Cumberland Community Fund
The South Cumberland Community Fund helps improve the quality of life across this region by increasing philanthropic giving and supporting leadership to build on the strength of the area's people, communities, and natural setting; to enhance community capacity building and collaboration; and to support innovative ways to solve community problems.

Peter Bahr

C'20 Bonner Leader | Grundy County Sheriff's Office

Grundy County Sheriff's Office
As a Bonner Leader at the Grundy County Sheriff's Office, Peter helped run a variety of recovery, education, and rehabilitation programs designed to assist incarcerated individuals with a successful transition to their community after they are released.

Malicat Chouyouti

C'20 Bonner Leader | South Cumberland Community Fund

South Cumberland Community Fund
The South Cumberland Community Fund helps improve the quality of life across this region by increasing philanthropic giving and supporting leadership to build on the strength of the area's people, communities, and natural setting; to enhance community capacity building and collaboration; and to support innovative ways to solve community problems.

Sarah Cordell

C'20 Canale Intern | Folks at Home

About Sarah's Site:
Folks at Home is a local non-profit organization developed for and dedicated to assisting its members in continuing a dignified and comfortable lifestyle in the community through coordination of services they need during their elder years. Students working with Folks at Home would offer companionship to seniors, develop student volunteers for services, teach health-based classes, and offer general support to the work and mission of Folks at Home.

Sarah Covington

C'20 Canale Intern | Blue Monarch

Blue Monarch
Blue Monarch is a residential recovery program for women and their children that aims to break the cycle of addiction and repair families. With over 350 applications already the program is expanding to be able to meaningfully engage everyone involved.

Mesgana Dagnachew

C'20 Canale Intern | Grantwriting Program

Grantwriting Program
Student Interns with the Grantwriting Program research funds, learn grant cycles, and meet with community partners to explore needs and funding sources. Additionally, students work with fellow Bonners and Canales at their sites on program development and writing grants.

Elon Epps

C'20 Bonner Leader | Senior Intern

Senior Intern
Senior Interns take on sophisticated program management roles, working alongside staff, faculty, and partners to help manage the Bonner and Canale Programs. Students work on projects to broaden and deepen engagement across the curriculum and institution, manage assessment, and build connections within cohorts and with campus organizations.

Morgan Jennings

C'20 Bonner Leader | Partners for Healing

Partners for Healing
Partners for Healing is a free medical clinic in Tullahoma, TN. They serve 3 counties, over general care, lab work, and referrals. They have a prescription assistance program and offer diabetes education to patients. The clinic is interested in students willing to research and write grants, organize clinic structure, create new initiatives, digitize medical records, educate the clinic on technology and offer cooking demonstrations.

Sydney Masterson

C'20 Bonner Leader | BetterFi

BetterFi
BetterFi is a 501(c)(3) financial non-profit operating out of Coalmont, TN that serves the South Cumberland Plateau. BetterFi provides financial coaching as well as an affordable alternative to costly predatory consumer loans that often entrap low-income individuals and families. Bonner interns work on identifying and establishing partnerships between BetterFi and regional organizations including banks, churches, and employers to create pipelines of potential clients; become IRS tax certified to assist in free income tax filing for local residents in order to save local families hundreds of dollars that they would otherwise spend; and teach and manage financial literacy and career planning games and activities with local 8th graders via Junior Achievement.

Ellie McLean

C'20 Bonner Leader | Beersheba Springs Medical Clinic

Ellie's Site:
Beersheba Springs Medical Clinic is a free medical clinic in Grundy County, TN that serves an anual 2,000 patients a year. Student volunteers partake in patient in-take, filing, organizing medi- cal stocks, data tracking for the clinic, and can be trained to be Diabetes Educators for patients with diabetes. In addition to this, Bonner Leaders help with capacity building projects, such as running the Patient Assistance Program and getting volunteers for the new building renovation (which will one day become a dentistry office).

Crystal Ngo

C'20 Bonner Leader | New Life

Crystal's Site:
New Life TN is a non-profit agency for persons with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities in Franklin County and the surrounding community. New Life offers a combination of formal and informal programs, services and supports to enhance the quality of life and assist individuals with life skills. all with the goal of increasing or maintaining the independence of those they serve, help them to develop their personal potential to the fullest extent, and see them fully integrated and included in our society.

Stephen Priest

C'20 Canale Intern | Christian’s Celebrating God’s Bounty Medical Clinic

Stephen's Site:
At Christian’s Celebrating God’s Bounty Medical Clinic, student volunteers are responsible for working with the other community volunteers on a variety of tasks that are necessary for the clinic’s efficient function: checking patients in (retrieving/making files, taking histories, vitals, blood sugar, etc.), sanitizing patient rooms between uses, locating and properly packaging medication prescribed to a patient, identifying and organizing donated medications categorically, making appointments in person or over the phone, taking/recording phone messages, and any general organization or cleaning that might be necessary at the time. Additionally, students will sometimes have the opportunity to shadow the day’s volunteer physician. On these days, the student is able to learn by observing the physician interactions with patients, and also helps the physician in any way that might be needed.

Emily Stone

C'20 Canale Intern | Wednesday Wonderings

Emily's Site:
Wednesday Wonderings is an after-school program at Sewanee Elementary School, held each Wednesday from 2:30-3:30. Students offer themed classes with curriculum for 6 weeks each semester and potential classes could include: fort-building, building a garden, writing and acting out plays using items found in nature as props, or any other subject that students feel interested in leading.

Carter Ware

C'20 Canale Intern | Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands

Carter's Site
The Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands is a non-profit law firm that works throughout the state of Tennessee to “enforce, advance and defend the legal rights of low income and vulnerable families in order to obtain for them the basic necessities of life.” This position could help perform research, collect data, as well as potentially translate for staff members working with Spanish speaking clients on issues like criminal problems, child support, immigration, and any other need for free legal support.

Olivia Whitcomb

C'20 Canale Intern | Diabetes Prevention Program

Olivia's Site:
The Diabetes Prevention program works with the Franklin and Grundy County Health Educator and Assistant Director to Sewanee's pre-health program to develop, implement, promote, and lead a weekly, evidence-based program designed to help prevent diabetes from developing in two counties with low health rankings in a state that is ranked low, nationally, in health. In 2010, 35% of the Grundy country residents reported taking insulin and 30% of the population has adult obesity. Students interested in working with this program apply during the spring semester to work the following year as a Diabetes Education Fellow.

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