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Research in Rural Spaces: What Rurality Can Teach Us About Relationships and Connection.

Sophie and 3 other Interns for the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi holding up certificates in front of the office

Pictured above: Summer 2023 Interns for the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi By Sophie Hathaway Winokur Fellow SM Candidate, Department of Global Health and Populations My name is Sophie Hathaway, and I am a second-year Master of Science Candidate at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, focused on Global Health and Population Studies with a concentration in Women, Gender, and Health. Today in this blog post I will outline…

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Shifting the Narrative

Travelers Hotel in Clarksdale Mississippi

Pictured above: Located in downtown Clarksdale MS, the Travelers Hotel employs artists in exchange for free housing. Photo courtesy of Ann Williams. Mississippi has reached a record ranking and is no longer last in the nation for K-12 achievement, announced Tom Pittman at the recent opening of this year’s Delta Directions Regional Forum. The Forum takes place annually in Clarksdale, MS and Tom, now serving as President Emeritus of the…

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Advice for Working with Community

Fellows from the Fall 2022 cohort

“Listen to everyone! The community is made up of so many diverse people and everyone has something unique to share.”  “Be patient. Although your project is #1 priority to you, the organization has 20 other urgent topics they are working on.”  “Be mindful of layers and multiplicity of experience that happens within a community – don’t overgeneralize.”  “Try your best to take off the Harvard cap and jacket!! And be…

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New Community Engaged Learning Fellows in the field

Twenty new fellowships have been awarded to students and post-docs at Harvard Chan to support their community engaged learning work spanning the U.S. from Boston to Alaska, and globally in El Salvador, Uganda, and Madagascar, among other locations. The fellowships include the flagship Rose Service Learning Fellowship, now in its fifth year, and the Herbert S. Winokur Fellowship in Public Health for the Mississippi Delta. The newest Global Mental Health…

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Announcing the spring 2021 cohort of community engaged learning fellows

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Spring 2021 Community Engaged Learning (CEL) Fellowships. Of the nineteen fellows in the cohort, fourteen were awarded the Rose Service Learning Fellowship and five are Harvard-Mississippi Delta Fellows in Public Health.   Community Engaged Learning Fellows are students from various degree programs, departments and fields of study across Harvard Chan. They come together in a cohort-based learning community that cultivates peer…

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