We’re so excited to introduce you to the 2020-2021 QVS Fellows! We have over 30 young adults eager to begin their year with QVS. Here are just a few highlights from our incoming Fellow cohort!
- Rose Shuker-Haines has long been immersed in Quaker spirituality and activism, and is excited to continue doing environmental justice work with Massachusetts Climate Action Network in Boston!
- Noah Bateman spent summers as a camp counselor at Mountain Friends Camp, and is excited to support youth in a community centered on Quaker values at The Friends School of Minnesota in the Twin Cities!
- Sam Downs helped run a weekly dinner for international students during college, and is eager to pursue justice and equity at Nationalities Service Center in Philadelphia!
- Celia Rayfiel explored issues related to migration, labor, and gender at Earlham College, and is thrilled to be working with the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon’s HIV Day Center in Portland!
Incoming Fellow Highlights (click on a picture below to read the Fellow's full bio)
Get to know all the incoming Fellows by checking out their bios on their city pages: Atlanta, Boston, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, or Portland, OR.
We hope you will follow along on Facebook or Instagram as we continue to introduce a QVS Fellow every weekday through August. You can like a post, drop a comment, and help us welcome these amazing young adults into a year with QVS!
Updates on National Orientation
Typically we welcome Fellows at the start of the year with an in-person five-day National Orientation. Since 2014, we gathered at Pendle Hill to welcome and orient Fellows to a year of intentional Quaker Service engagement.
With COVID-19, we are shifting National Orientation to an online format, with Fellows participating from their program houses. Help us with this, and other necessary programmatic shifts, by giving a gift today.