Volunteer

Adair Watson' 22 is a patient services specialist at NovaCare Rehabilitation and volunteer at Wellness House of Annapolis.

Josephina (Joey) Pisano' 21 spent the year after graduation as an Americorp member in Boston. She is now pursuing a MSW at Boston College School of Social Work with an expected graduation in 2024.

Elizabeth Allnutt '19 spent time after graduation serving Americorps as a social/emotional resilience coach at an elementary school in Juneau, Alaska. She earned a MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marymont University in 2023.

Kara Feidelseit '19 is a CCMA AmeriCorps VISTA at Catholic University of America. Her role is to help combat poverty in America. Specifically, she is helping to reduce food insecurity on Catholic's campus by building a permanent food pantry that students and staff can access.  She has been accepted into the MSW program at Boston University.

Julia Bowden '18 served in the Peace Corps as an English language co-teacher in North Macedonia for a year after graduation. She is a communications assistant at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Jessie Nolasco-Sandino '15 served as a community health volunteer for the Peace Corps stationed in Asunción, Paraguay for nearly three years after graduation from SMCM. She is earned a MSW from University of Maryland, Baltimore in 2022. Now a LMSW, she is a bilingual psychotherapist at Quince Orchard Psychotherapy. Jessie has had prior experience working as an ABA therapist for Brighter Strides ABA in Gaithersburg, MD, and is happy to speak to anyone interested in the ABA field. 

Leila Kurman '14 earned a MAT at SMCM in '15. In August of 2017, she began a 27-month position as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching ESL in Nicaraugua. After serving as an English teacher at Centro Educavito Coasta Ballena in Costa Rica for two years, in 2020 she transitioned to be their freelance volunteer coordinator, instructional coach and hiring manager.  She also does contract work as an alumni coordinator for TALMA a leadership development program for teachers & an English-immersion program for low-income Israeli schoolchildren; Leila gained experience as a summer teaching fellow for TALMA in 2021.  

Ashleigh Dueker '10 served as a health education specialist in Mali, West Africa for the Peace Corps for two years after graduation. She earned a MBA from Lancaster University, UK  in 2015. Before moving to England in 2014, she was a coordinator for new program development at Jhpiego, a NPO affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, that works to prevent the needless deaths of women and families. She is now a principal consultant for Agile Transformation at PA Consulting in London.

Ellie Gutowski '09 spent three years as a community health agent for HIV/AIDS with the Peace Corps and served in the Southeastern African countries of Niger and Malawi. She earned a MA  in Counseling Psychology from Boston College in 2017, and expects to earn her PhD in the same field at Boston College in 2019. She was the  2019 recipient of the Larry J. Siegel Graduate Fellowship for Victimology Studies to support project entitled "Coercive control in the courtroom: Litigation abuse and its correlates".  She is a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School.

Jared LeClerc '02 was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa for a little over two years post-graduation. He earned a PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Washington in 2014. He is a user researcher for Microsoft Corporation in the Greater Seattle area.