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...She’s a natural people person,” says Lindsay Jewell ’05, one of her roommates, “and public service is a natural avenue for her to express that.” By the end of her freshman year, Hammond??s heart was already set on teaching elementary school in Brooklyn, NY, where she grew up. “I knew I wanted to learn outside the classroom,” she says, which was what had first prompted her to seek out PBHA as a freshman and dive head...
...fact, Hammond??s time at Harvard has been a steady evolution of her perspective on public service. Harvard’s first lesson, impressed perhaps too fervently upon new residents of Harvard Yard, was that much is possible. On her first foray into Phillips Brooks House (the building that houses PBHA, among other things), Hammond was wooed by a zealous representative of Best Buddies, who struck her with a unique pitch. “He approached me and was like, ‘You look like you want to learn about this...
...ability to communicate. Conventional language was never the problem, as she realizes now, because the gesture-driven language of children is rarely conventional to begin with. “Their type of communication is incredible,” she says. Words, however, can’t be completely discredited; Hammond??s friendship with her Best Buddy, Season (pronounced Say-ZAHN), is a stream of endless chatter...
...don’t think you build a trust within that meeting. I think it’s how you carry yourself in the shelter and the way you interact with the guests at all the other times [that builds the relationship].” Among Hammond??s clients this summer was a woman in her thirties from Haiti who worked in the laundry room at a nursing home and commuted every day between work and St. James. What impressed Hammond more than her relentless routine was that she spent weekends taking classes to become a nursing assistant...
...leadership has a training component built in; two of the directors are returning for a second summer, and two are spending their first summer as junior directors. Jonathan Y. Lai ’06, a junior director this year who is also a Crimson editor, calls Hammond??s brand of leadership “leadership by example. She would never ask anyone else to do something that she herself wouldn’t be willing to do. So if she asked you to do something, it was for good reason.” He adds with a laugh...