Undergraduate
Saint Michael's student shines at Impact National Conference, is finalist for national service fellowship
A habit of service may launch a career for Nicole Marshall
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Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Involved in service projects from the Girl Scouts, and then straight the way through her Saint Michael's College career, senior Nicole Marshall, a sociology/anthropology major from Brewster, Mass., is now focused on a life-time career in anti-poverty policy work.
A member of the core or leadership team of MOVE, Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts, the Saint Michael's Campus Ministry service program, Ms. Marshall and Saint Michael's sophomore Leah Ziegler were selected to be presenters at the Impact National Conference on college volunteering, held on at the University of Maryland, March 19-22. Hundreds of participants from campuses all across the country, although Marshall and Ziegler were the only Vermont representatives, gathered for the four-days of workshops and lectures. Marshall and Ziegler's presentation, "Saint Michael's Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts (MOVE): Serving for 20 years," elicited great enthusiasm from their audience for its take-away advice that others said they would "definitely" put to use on their campuses.
The duo presented MOVE's 23 programs which have a mission of education and service combined, and spoke of the student involvement at Saint Michael's where over 70 percent of students participate in some kind of service work during their four years at Saint Michael's.
Finalist for a year-long Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship in DC
Ms. Marshall recently finished extensive interviews as a finalist for a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship in Washington, D.C., next year. Some 400 applicants have been narrowed to the 40 who were flown to DC for interviews. From the finalists 25 or 30 will be named Fellows. They will spend five months in an assignment somewhere in the U.S., and the rest of the year at a policy site doing an internship in Washington.
Committed to service
As a middle schooler, Ms. Marshall earned leadership credits organizing the Linus Project which saw her whole Brewster, Mass., troupe going to Malden Mills for soft fabric, and then getting help turning them into baby blankets for hospitals and fire stations.
At Saint Michael's, Ms. Marshall organized a volunteer program at Burlington, Vt., COTS (Committee on Temporary Shelter) and has worked there for three years. She goes once a week to COTS to talk to, entertain, and make friends with the children who live in the shelter, and she takes three Saint Michael's volunteers with her each time. She even continued it over the summer, taking the youngsters to parks and gardens and expanding their horizons.
The honor student has gone on an extended service trip each of her four Saint Michael's spring breaks. On her sophomore trip to the Dominican Republic, she used her Spanish fluency. She then went to Ecuador for a study abroad service-learning semester and worked in a low-income pre-school, while attending the University of San Francisco de Quito. After graduation in May Ms. Marshall will be traveling with a group on a service trip to Kolkata, India, for three weeks. They will be working at the New Hope New Life Orphanage, a place that has rescued some 200 youngsters from the red light district.
"I've been inspired into anti-poverty work through my courses with [Political Science Professor] Trish Siplon and [Anthropology Professor] Patti Delaney," Ms. Marshall said. "And Heidi St. Peter [director of the MOVE] has been such a force in my life ... her job is to lift up students and support them ... Despite their ton of work, they always make time for us no matter what."
Ms. Marshall, the daughter of Ms. Cynthia Kent, graduated from Nauset Regional High School before coming to Saint Michael's.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Involved in service projects from the Girl Scouts, and then straight the way through her Saint Michael's College career, senior Nicole Marshall, a sociology/anthropology major from Brewster, Mass., is now focused on a life-time career in anti-poverty policy work.A member of the core or leadership team of MOVE, Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts, the Saint Michael's Campus Ministry service program, Ms. Marshall and Saint Michael's sophomore Leah Ziegler were selected to be presenters at the Impact National Conference on college volunteering, held on at the University of Maryland, March 19-22. Hundreds of participants from campuses all across the country, although Marshall and Ziegler were the only Vermont representatives, gathered for the four-days of workshops and lectures. Marshall and Ziegler's presentation, "Saint Michael's Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts (MOVE): Serving for 20 years," elicited great enthusiasm from their audience for its take-away advice that others said they would "definitely" put to use on their campuses.
The duo presented MOVE's 23 programs which have a mission of education and service combined, and spoke of the student involvement at Saint Michael's where over 70 percent of students participate in some kind of service work during their four years at Saint Michael's.
Finalist for a year-long Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship in DC
Ms. Marshall recently finished extensive interviews as a finalist for a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship in Washington, D.C., next year. Some 400 applicants have been narrowed to the 40 who were flown to DC for interviews. From the finalists 25 or 30 will be named Fellows. They will spend five months in an assignment somewhere in the U.S., and the rest of the year at a policy site doing an internship in Washington.
Committed to service
As a middle schooler, Ms. Marshall earned leadership credits organizing the Linus Project which saw her whole Brewster, Mass., troupe going to Malden Mills for soft fabric, and then getting help turning them into baby blankets for hospitals and fire stations.
At Saint Michael's, Ms. Marshall organized a volunteer program at Burlington, Vt., COTS (Committee on Temporary Shelter) and has worked there for three years. She goes once a week to COTS to talk to, entertain, and make friends with the children who live in the shelter, and she takes three Saint Michael's volunteers with her each time. She even continued it over the summer, taking the youngsters to parks and gardens and expanding their horizons.
The honor student has gone on an extended service trip each of her four Saint Michael's spring breaks. On her sophomore trip to the Dominican Republic, she used her Spanish fluency. She then went to Ecuador for a study abroad service-learning semester and worked in a low-income pre-school, while attending the University of San Francisco de Quito. After graduation in May Ms. Marshall will be traveling with a group on a service trip to Kolkata, India, for three weeks. They will be working at the New Hope New Life Orphanage, a place that has rescued some 200 youngsters from the red light district.
"I've been inspired into anti-poverty work through my courses with [Political Science Professor] Trish Siplon and [Anthropology Professor] Patti Delaney," Ms. Marshall said. "And Heidi St. Peter [director of the MOVE] has been such a force in my life ... her job is to lift up students and support them ... Despite their ton of work, they always make time for us no matter what."
Ms. Marshall, the daughter of Ms. Cynthia Kent, graduated from Nauset Regional High School before coming to Saint Michael's.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
