Each summer — as the program year winds down — we invite Fellows to reflect on their experience and write a testimonial to share with Friends. Maria Fernanda Landin, a young adult Fellow who served in Portland during the 2019-2020 program year, shares reflections on...
In my year as a QVS Fellow, I worked at Casa del Trabajador, an immigrant-led worker center which advocates for injured, unpaid, or otherwise vulnerable workers. My year with QVS and Casa del Trabajador gave me many, many things — but primarily, it gave me tools...
Consensus Decision Making in Eusocial Organisms June 1, 2017 By Barbara Dale Excerpt “…Quakerism has been an important structure for me to learn in and from. I still live with housemates from QVS, and I feel clued into something larger than myself through...
Quaker Voluntary Service is part of a long history of Quaker action and witness in the world. We want to honor that legacy and help our young adults see and frame where they fit into this story. In this second video of our Quaker Service Testimonies video series, Pat...
This post is the first part of a series on how the QVS experience has shaped Fellows views of Quakerism. How I Talk About Quakerism I didn’t grow up Quaker. I haven’t spent years figuring out how to best explain that, yes, I can use electricity, and no, I don’t have...
