[Jgfamembers] 2008 Stanford Gardner/Ford Fellows

Wed Apr 16 11:30:29 PDT 2008

JGFA Members: Below are the areas of interest for 2008 Stanford Gardner 
and Ford Fellows. I imagine Mark will send a similar email with Berkeley 
folks. Please take a few moments to read through their interests and 
send me names of ideal organizations and/or mentors that come to mind. 
They may also contact you individually. Thanks for any ideas you can 
send my way! Megan

Stanford Gardner Fellows

Elizabeth Kersten – Human Biology
Elizabeth’s area of interest is global health equity. She has worked 
throughout her Stanford career with HIV/AIDS, maternal health, and 
women's health in general and finds all facets of this broad field 
interesting. She is primarily concerned with the development of 
sustainable solutions/health systems that bring comprehensive and 
quality healthcare to resource-poor settings.

Olga Medina – Political Science/CSRE
Olga’s public service record has focused on the advancement and 
empowerment of underrepresented communities including experience working 
on civil rights, immigration, voting, and language access issues. She is 
interested in expanding immigrant access to and opportunities for 
effective participation in local communities and our nation as a whole. 
She hopes to work for an organization committed to advancing 
comprehensive immigration reform and protecting immigrants’ rights: more 
specifically, an organization that engages in community-based outreach 
and advocacy work on behalf of immigrant communities, especially the 
undocumented population. She would like to work on public policy 
research, engage in public education efforts in immigrant communities, 
and participate in legal cases or projects that affect immigrant 
constituencies and, overall, shape the image and debate surrounding 
immigration.

Debbie Warshawsky – Urban Studies
Debbie plans to dedicate her life to the fight against urban poverty and 
inequality in the United States - and the promotion of racial, economic, 
and political justice. She is interested in a community-based, 
non-profit placement that works to reduce urban poverty and inequality 
in the United States in minority-majority neighborhoods. She would also 
consider working in an urban mayor's office with a mentor focused on 
these issues. Debbie hopes to gain a better understanding about how to 
engage in effective community organizing, public-private partnerships, 
and community-based efforts to reduce poverty in low-income neighborhoods.

Ford Fellows – 11 month placement in a United States Foundation

Alyssa Battistoni – Political Science/American Studies
Alyssa seeks a foundation placement focused on increasing the 
decision-making power of low-income and disadvantaged communities, both 
within governmental and philanthropic institutions. Her ideal foundation 
would be one focused on strengthening the relationship between citizens 
and government so that government is more responsive and citizens are 
more engaged and active. She is specifically interested in democratic 
participation-civic engagement programs focused on including low-income 
communities in decision-making and increasing their political voice. She 
also wants to work at a foundation focused on building relationships 
with the organizations it funds and supporting long-term work. Most of 
Alyssa’s experience is with domestic issues, but she is also potentially 
interested in foundations doing international work.

Sheila Bijoor – Electrical Engineering/International Relations
Sheila hopes to work at a philanthropic foundation that uses innovative 
technology solutions for rural development in developing countries -- 
particularly telecommunications or energy solutions. An ideal foundation 
would have projects that offer her the chance to 1) engage in/evaluate 
pilot projects in the field; and 2) help set strategic vision for how 
the foundation will focus its efforts to use telecom/energy to empower 
and transform the lives of rural poor people in developing countries. 
Ideally the placement would be an operating foundation or at least a 
foundation “close to the ground.”

Linh Tran – Human Biology
Linh would like to work at a foundation focused on different approaches 
to preservation of open space (how to preserve it, how it should be 
utilized, etc.). In addition, she is very interested in the "parks and 
people" dilemma. She hopes to gain an understanding of how communities 
interact with and affect open spaces, whether these spaces are protected 
conservation areas or urban parks. She would love to be placed in a 
foundation that funds organizations that mediate natural resource 
conflict resolution and help stakeholders reach a sustainable solution. 
She is interested in two possible directions that will help her develop 
an understanding of environmental philanthropy.

1) A community or regional foundation heavily involved in open space 
issues as well as other community issues (poverty, literacy, etc.) to 
gain a greater understanding of the value of open space and its place 
within a community.

2) A foundation that is involved with promoting both sustainable use of 
natural resources and equitable access for women to those resources in 
developing countries.

-- 
Megan Swezey Fogarty
Postgraduate and Alumni Programs Director
Haas Center for Public Service 
Stanford University
http://haas.stanford.edu
650-725-2870

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