by Jackie Lamars | Jun 18, 2025 | Alumni, Equity, National, News, Quaker Service Testimonies
Written by Paloma Sharangpani This year has been so full and varied that it’s difficult for me to describe. My role, with its very cheffy title of Reproductive Health Outreach Specialist, does conjure an accurate image of my standard day: sitting at a table with...
by Jackie Lamars | Jun 18, 2025 | Alumni, Equity, National, News, Quaker Service Testimonies
Written by Salem Heideman Before I came to QVS, I was lost. I could feel a sickness in the world, and in myself. I was in a constant state of unease. I struggled to exist in silence with my thoughts. I’d been drifting toward a mathematics degree that I felt no calling...
by Jackie Lamars | Jun 10, 2025 | Alumni, Equity, National, News, Quaker Service Testimonies
Written by Edward Buck-Shannon I came to QVS from Southern Arizona, where migrant justice and the violence of immigration enforcement are central to life and landscape. In college, I studied immigration and briefly worked at a legal aid organization where I worked...
by Haley Castle-Miller | Dec 21, 2024 | Alumni, Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Philadelphia
In college I studied Business and Nonprofit Management at Earlham College, where I was lucky enough to be a Quaker Fellow. This allowed me to always have a balance of spiritual deepening and professional development. Following graduation, it made perfect sense to do...
by Haley Castle-Miller | Dec 20, 2024 | Alumni, Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Atlanta
Above Photo Caption: Elise and other Fellows in her cohort pictured with Congressman John Lewis. In the seven years since my Quaker Voluntary Service Fellowship year, a lot has changed: for myself, for the world, and for QVS. In the spring of 2016, when I applied to...
by QVS | Nov 8, 2024 | Alumni, News, Quaker Service Testimonies, QVS Portland
Photo Caption: The Dappled Light coming through the trees at Pendle Hill Retreat Center. As I came to the end of my time as an undergraduate at Haverford College, I saw two options for my next step. Either I would become a librarian or I could take advantage of a...
