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...easy it is to overcommit without fully committing. In her first year, Hammond had a Best Buddy to mentor, a spirited 12-year-old girl from Martin Luther King Junior school, balanced shifts at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, and kept up intramurally the sports she’d done in high school—volleyball and soccer. “I had no idea what commitment at Harvard was like,” she confesses. “I realized I couldn’t do everything.” Eventually, Best Buddies made a decision for her: that...
...high school student in Brooklyn, Hammond didn’t have many opportunities to volunteer. She ran up against all sorts of legal walls with most organizations in New York City, which were strict about accepting only adult volunteers. Her high school, Midwood High, despite being surrounded by the pressing conditions of the city, never ventured out with a strong student service program. After doing what she could from Midwood, Hammond ended up volunteering in Sao Paolo, Brazil through the Legion of Good Will...
...summer Hammond spent in San Paolo was divided among the city’s orphanages, where, as official volunteer ambassadors, she and her friends arrived with toys and school supplies. She found a natural rapport with the children of the slums, despite her limited 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...
...overseeing the daily operation of the shelter, each handle three “cases,” putting their clients in touch with professional non-profits like Boston Home Start and the Piano Dave Project. The directors meet with each of their clients on a weekly basis, but Hammond insists that these meetings are strictly for administrative purposes. “I 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...
Hammond’s work in Cambridge this summer also kept her close to Season, who, when Hammond was a freshman, used to come to the Yard for sleepovers. In August, Hammond did what she’d always talked about doing: she took Season home to Brooklyn for a weekend. It was a trip Season had been begging to take, but Hammond too had come to expect that, sooner or later, she would show Season the place where she grew up. “She had a Brooklyn jersey dress,” recalls Hammond, laughing...