Meet the 25-26 Perkins Fellows!

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together.

— Aboriginal activist Lilla Watson

Perkins Fellows explore vocation through weekly community engagement over the course of a fall and spring semester. Students from any year may apply. Named after the great Christian community development leaders John M. & Vera Mae Perkins, this program builds bridges between the University and the community through mutually-beneficial partnerships. Perkins Fellows are placed with a community partner to connect their learning through service and theological reflection. Fellows receive mentoring and training in cross-cultural engagement and community development, with an eye towards vocational discernment in these fields of work.

Meet our 25-26 Perkins Fellows!

Abigail Elias, CALM (Abundant Life Ministries)
Sara Holt, Bread & Roses
Eujine Kim, International Neighbors
Sean Kim, Ronald McDonald House
Isabel McDaniel, Literacy Volunteers
Katie Rice, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Mary Roper, CALM
Benjamin Tang, The Haven
Elika Tofigh, Virginia Book Arts
Camille Villalobos, CALM

Perkins Fellows 25-26 here with a portrait of their namesake, John Perkins.