Hi! My name is Claire Wigglesworth '25, and I am a Lewin Fellow working with the Kayapó Project's Associação Floresta Protegida (AFP - Protected Forests Association) in Pará, Brazil. The Kayapó Project supports Mebengokre Kayapó autonomy and culture, work that also contributes to protecting an enormous expanse of territory within Brazil's arc of deforestation.
Alumni changemakers were honored with a summit, a new journal, and a podcast.
A Transformative Summer in Cape Town: Lessons in Social Impact and Personal Growth
This past June, I had the honor to work with twelve dedicated scholars in their pursuit to attend a 4-year college. These scholars are a part of the SEAD (Strengthening Educational Access with Dartmouth) program, and came from Oxbow, Stevens, and Lebanon high schools. At the end of their Sophomore and Junior school years, scholars spend a full week on the Dartmouth campus where they receive engaged mentoring from Dartmouth students and staff about what it is like to attend college.
Hello! My name is James, and I'm writing this brief note as a reflection on my experience as one of the Center for Social Impact's Upper Valley Community Impact Fellows during the 2023-2024 school year. I applied for this opportunity during my sophomore summer with little to no reference for how it would shape my junior year. While I knew I would be working part-time during the fall and winter and full-time in the spring, I had no clue what project I would be working on, what organization I would be partnered with, and what my role