NYLC Welcomes Summer Fellows

This summer a group of Youth Initiatives Fellows bring their talents and perspectives to NYLC’s programs. The high school and college-aged students assist NYLC on urban and youth initiatives as well as the Generator School Network, gaining real world experiences by working on an array of projects.

This summer a group of Youth Initiatives Fellows bring their talents and perspectives to NYLC’s programs. The high school and college-aged students assist NYLC on urban and youth initiatives as well as the Generator School Network, gaining real world experiences by working on an array of projects.

Pajnucci Vue and Parth Shah — both graduates of NYLC’s National Youth Leadership Training and members of NYLC’s Youth Advisory Council and board — are also serving as Fellows. Vue, a junior at Highland Park Senior High School in Saint Paul, Minn., and Shah, a freshman this fall at New York University, assist on the logistics, curriculum, and staff training of NYLT.

Joining NYLC as a G. Bernard Gill Fellow, Fayise Abraham works on urban initiatives as well as achievement gap and drop-out prevention strategies. A freshman this fall at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., she helps with the Urban Institute, trains mentors at NYLT, provides support for a summer service-learning program at Obama Service-Learning Elementary School, and helps facilitate a graduation summit addressing effective strategies for decreasing the drop-out rate.

Guy Allen, a sophomore at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis., serves as a GSN Professional Development and Membership Assistant, creating materials for an upcoming webinar series and working with membership systems. According to Allen, the Summer Fellow experience is an opportunity “to be apart of this great organization, and receive office and work experience at the same time.”

The summer provides Fellows the opportunity to gain skills and contribute to programs that add to the service-learning movement. As Vue said, “What I think is the most interesting is that what we do here at NYLC has a ripple effect on impacting others through doing good deeds, service-learning, and teaching youth about service.”

Left to right: Fayise Abraham, Guy Allen, Parth Shah, and Pajnucci Vue