Caroline T. Schroeder
Community
Service
In Durham, North Carolina, I was an active member
of my community as a member of the board of the Tuscaloosa-Lakewood Neighborhood
Association. The TLNA was a neighborhood association, not a
homeowners association, and worked as an advocate for the extremely
diverse residents of the 800 households in our corner of Durham.
Some of the activities the TLNA sponsored include:
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crime prevention and personal safety meetings
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neighborhood clean-up days
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summer neighborhood barbeques
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quarterly newsletters informing residents of fair housing rights, crime
prevention & safety tips, local residential-to-commercial rezoning
cases
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support for neighborhood activists fighting residential-to-commercial
rezoning
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lobbying the city for speed-reduction measures in the neighborhood
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publicizing community service initiatives by local non-profits
Photographs of the TLNA events and minutes from TLNA board meetings can be found on the TLNA website.
Academic
Service -- Women's Studies
As a member of the Women's Studies community at
Duke, I have served on the steering committee for one of the annual
Women's Studies Graduate and Professional Students' Conference. I
also was privileged to be involved in the recent search for the new
Director of Women's Studies at Duke. No graduate students served
on the search committee, but I served as a graduate student liaison
between the committee and the graduate students affiliated with Women's
Studies. This opportunity taught me about the way faculty
searches work and the benefits of maintaining affiliation with an
interdisciplinary program or department.
Before going to Duke, I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. I worked for a year at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, located in the Tenderloin district. As their Program Coordinator, I worked with parish volunteers to support their programs for low-income seniors and immigrant children.
Prior to that, I was one of the original corps members of the Americorps program. As a participant in the pilot "Summer of Service" program in the summer of 1993, I worked for the East Bay Conservation Corps in an environmentally-oriented leadership program for "at-risk" kids at Roosevelt Junior High School in Oakland, California.