Sustainability Seminar

Seminar alumni

Students in this seminar are engaged in inspiring work that allows them to build diverse skill sets in community-based work. Their work is transformative – they make impacts on the community and are also transformed through this engagement process themselves. Two alums of the Sustainability Seminar have been selected for one of Wofford College’s highest honors: Presidential International Scholar. Both Presidential International Scholars – Kendall Weaver ’21 and Paola Cruz ’23 – have discussed how their sustainability-based work in Spartanburg has provided them with skills, knowledge and passion for their research abroad.

Paola Cruz ’23

Presidential International Scholar
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Kendall Weaver ’21

2021-22

  • Transforming After-School Programming: Creating Sustainable Program Engagement in Partnership with Spartanburg Housing
    • Sarah Buckmaster ’24, Mac Gavin ’24, Parker Langston ’22
  • Planning with Perspective: Using Participatory Mapping to Gain Children’s Perspectives on Spartanburg City Planning
    • Ella Jarrett ’22
  • Intergenerational Engagement with Spartanburg’s Latine Community: Navigating Educational Pathways with First-Generation Students and Families
    • Marlén Ramirez-Alvarado ‘24
  • CHEFS Club at the Cleveland Academy of Leadership (2nd grade)
    • Sarah Peak ’22, Lamar Buchanan ’24 and Sebastian LaTorre ’24
  • Sustainability Through Website-Building: Engagement and Access at the Cleveland Academy of Leadership
    • Rylee Jorgensen ’23
  • Queens’ Club at Mary H. Wright: Holistic Approaches to Self-Care, Leadership and Service
    • Jacqueline Hansen ’24 and Eliana Davis ’22
  • Queens’ Club at Cleveland Academy of Leadership: Holistic Approaches to Self-Care, Leadership and Service
    • Scotdaija Jenkins ’23 and Sopharvathdy Vorn ’22
  • STEM Club at the Cleveland Academy of Leadership (1st grade)
    • Jake Popkin ’22 and Isa Warlick ’23
  • Empowering Middle Schoolers Through Storytelling: AVID Students at Carver Middle School
    • Paola Cruz ’23
  • Walking Tours, Building Connection Through Place and Story: Northside-Wofford Bridge-Building
    • Heyward McPhail ’23
  • Art Club: Using Art History and Studio Art Curriculum to Promote Youth’s Processes of Self-Reflection and Engagement in Creative Forms of Expression
    • Blake Batten ’23

2019-20

  • Access to Special Needs Resources in Spartanburg
    • Leila Shearer ‘20
  • Afrodite’s Girls: Female Empowerment Workshops with Teenage Girls at the Hope Center
    • Parke Faison ’21
  • After-School Programming at Victoria Gardens: Assessing Community Needs, Interests and Assets
    • Alex Hill ’21, Carlyle O’Herron ’20 and Chloe Wanink ’20
  • Be (You) tiful: Empowerment-Based Programming for 1st Grade Girls at ARCH
    • Ashlyn Fox ’21 & Mariana Gonzalez ’21
  • Building Minds and Muscles: Curriculum Development at the Bridge on Green Street (K-5)
    • Summer Cook ’22
  • Building Social Support: Connecting Immigrants to Available Resources in Spartanburg(Adult Learning Center)
    • Olivia Free ’22
  • CHEFS Club: Cooking, Nutrition and Service at the Cleveland Academy of Leadership (4th-5th graders)
    • John Bosco Bapoupeleh ’20, Kealie Engels ’20, Channing Houser ’21 and Ashley Stewart ’20
  • Effective Training Tools: Toward Improved Health Outcomes and Information at AccessHealth
    • Marisa Barrera ’22
  • Financial Literacy in Spartanburg: Community-Based Workshops of Learning, Empowerment and Equity
    • Hana Barazi ’21
  • Intergenerational Conversations: Learning about the Northside Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
    • Kelly Bossert ’20
  • King’s Club: Mentoring and Leadership at Cleveland Academy (5th grade boys)
    • Jalen Carter ’21
  • PASSION: Character Development and Leadership Building with Teenagers at the Northside Church
    • Jaden Cox ’21 and Abbey Winslow ’21
  • Power of Inclusion: Disability ≠ No Ability
    • Anna Claire Atha ’21 and Elena Pulanco ’22
  • Sex Education and Reproductive Health in Teen and Young Adult Women in Spartanburg
    • Trinity Chapman ’22
  • Spartanburg Opportunity Center – PhotoVoice, Community Gardening and Re-shaping the Narrative Surrounding Homelessness
    • Ireland McGaughey ’20
  • Uplift Outreach Center: LGBTQIA Activism and Support Services
    • Brandon Molina ’22

2018-19

  • CHEFS Club: Access to Healthy Foods and Lifestyles for 4th Grade Girls at the Cleveland Academy of Leadership
    • Kendall Weaver ’20 and Helen Seddelmeyer ’19
  • Food Access and Inequity Across Spartanburg
    • Alexis Eaton ’19
  • IRON SHARP: College-bound Mentorship for African-American Young Men
    • Thad Mangum ’20 and Kirkland Morrow ’19
  • Let’s Read at Victoria Gardens
    • Louissa Pfundt ’21