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...Saturday afternoon last spring, she has already spent the morning interviewing junior counselor candidates for the PBHA’s Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE) Summer Program, and gone to a barbeque for the Harvard Homeless Shelter. Now Eskander is on the move once again. At 3:30, she will be down in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston running the BRYE Teen Program, a division of BRYE she helped start. On this particular day, Eskander and her fellow volunteers are taking the students in BRYE Teen to Castle Island to play volleyball. “First we need to stop...
Eskander’s “niches” include a volunteer director position at the Harvard Homeless Shelter, co-founding the BRYE Teen Program, working at the BRYE Tutoring Program and singing in and directing publicity for Kuumba. In addition, last spring Eskander, a neurobiology concentrator, took fives classes and worked in lab twice a week. “As a person, she does more stuff at Harvard than anyone I’ve ever seen,” says Christi D. Tran ’04, former executive vice president of PBHA...
...Gimme Shelter...
...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...