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...five nights a week from June to August this past summer, Erika R. Hammond ’05 was out past midnight. That’s when her shift ended at the St. James summer homeless shelter in Porter Square, where Hammond was one of two senior directors. In her second year directing the shelter, her duties covered all aspects of the running of the shelter, from recruiting volunteers, to shuttling supplies on a daily basis, to working directly with shelter residents to find jobs and permanent housing. But despite her hectic schedule and the steady needs of 37 volunteers...
...addition to directing the shelter at St. James, Hammond, a Sociology concentrator, also heads the Harvard chapter of the international Best Buddies program, a mentoring program that pairs learning disabled children with college and high school students. Hammond is also a board member for the Women Leadership Project, which conducts a week-long conference every year for undegraduate women leaders on campus...
...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.’” Ultimately, his approach...
Soon enough Hammond discovered a common aspect of extracurricular involvement at Harvard...
After retiring from Harvard, Hammond devoted himself to Harvard’s history, researching inscriptions all over campus...