Marisol Campusano
Augsburg College

Empowering Young Latino Women — Pursuing Education and talking about Family Planning
My project involves Latina students and parents. I will educate them about family planning by giving workshops two times a week. There will also be guest speakers to talk about the importance of education, family structure and family planning.

Marcie Flygare
Bethany Lutheran College

Healthy Fun at Heart
I will educate the developmentally disabled in the New Ulm community about heart disease. This will be done by teaching, educating and prompting healthier lifestyle choices to reduce their chances of a heart attack.

Jacqueline Carlson
College of St. Benedict

S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Service for Unity, Civic Awareness, Creativity, Empowerment, Social Justice and Sustaining Leadership
I will partner with the Keystone group to develop their service component and create a leadership component with the hopes to generate passion and civic awareness within the youth’s lives. Read more about Jacqueline.

Irma Marquez
Gustavus Adolphus College

Finding Yourself and Breaking Your Stereotype (FYBYS)
My service project will help 5th and 6th graders develop cultural identity and cultural awareness with the goal of looking at education as the answer and possibility. Read more about Irma

Jake Branchaud-Linsk
Hamline University

Youth Peace Keepers
Design and conduct a series of youth community workshops and then train peer mentors to provide a lasting service for St. Paul Housing residents. Read more about Jake here and here.

Bryant Ortega
University of St. Thomas

Project HOPE – Health Offers People Enlightenment
The mission of project HOPE is to create an environment for school aged children and their families to make healthy choices, the easy choice and to increase physical activity. Read more about Bryant here and here

Pa Dao Yang
Augsburg College
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Expressionist Art “Youth Leadership Development through the Arts”
The project aims to help Hmong refugee youth combine traditional Hmong art with modern art to express themselves. This project will build relationships that will retain the Hmong youth’s cultural ties to the Hmong community.

Sheng Xiong
College of St. Catherine
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Young Hmong Women and Disabilities: Living, Learning and Leading Together
Create a culturally specific summer program dedicated to improving and empowering the lives of Hmong teen girls living with health conditions or disabilities.  The program will consist of leadership building workshops and activities to foster deeper connections with the Hmong community.

Rebecca Lund
College of St. Scholastica
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Do You Hear What I See?
Day camp for students who are deaf or hard of hearing and their hearing classmates.  The project objectives are to build relationships among the participants and teach hearing students about deaf culture, including American Sign Language.

Laura Jensen
Gustavus Adolphus College
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Cultural Experiences and Self-Awareness (CESA)
I would provide a program for Hispanic 4th -6th grade children that would enrich their knowledge of their Latina cultural identity as a part of the American culture and provide them with scaffolding help for developing leadership and goal setting skills.

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Adam Zagoria
Hamline University

"Bodies Upon the Gears"
A documentary film and a developing curriculum which seeks to explore, through a sample of Hamline University students, how young adults in America form political identities and what factors affect their political development.

Andrew Wilson
St. Olaf College
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Hip-Hop Anonymous (Hip-Hop Anonimo in Spanish)
In order to erase the skewed negative reputation that the youth of Northfield, MN have received through recent local and statewide medial coverage, I will create a new branch of the Northfield Union of Youth: The Key, called “Hip-Hop Anonymous” that will use the four main aspects of true Hip-Hop culture to allow youth of Northfield the chance to demonstrate their colors in an appealing, community-approved way.