Shanelle is the program director of the Grow Hartford Youth Program at Hartford Food System. She is the community partner for the Liberal Arts Action Lab project on school nutrition this spring.
Jack Hale is involved in numerous initiatives in Hartford and has worked with the Office of Community Service and Civic Engagement as well as Trinity professors to engage students through tree planting, Colt history projects, and hosting volunteers at the Church of the Good Shepherd.
CHER January 2021 Newsletter
For more than twenty years Trinity’s Office of Community Service and Civic Engagement has organized two annual holiday drives — the Thanksgiving Drive and Sponsor-a-Snowman drive — to partner with Hartford organizations providing food and toy donations in the city.
The Center for Hartford Engagement and Research is pleased to debut project web pages that were created by our 2020 Community Learning Research Fellows.
Trinfo.Café will host a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) clinic for the third year, opening on February 9th.
CHER shoutouts recognize students, alumni, staff, faculty, and community partners who contribute to CHER programming. Today we’re recognizing Bea Dresser ’22 for her valuable participation in many CHER programs, as well as her recent service on a CHER hiring committee and in recruiting community-engaged prospective students to Trinity.
Cynthia Mena began as program manager at Trinfo Cafe and the Office of Community Relations in November 2020. Trinfo's student social media specialist Wendy Salto '22 interviewed Cynthia to get to know more about her and her new role.
In Rebecca Pappas' online Community Learning course "Performing Hartford," students learned about local arts infrastructures and “nested arts ecosystems” that allow artists to emerge outside of traditional organizational structures.
Newsletter for late fall 2020
