Hepburn Center Offers Summer Internships

The Hepburn Center will offer 12 summer internships in 2008 to undergraduates interested in obtaining practical experience in one of the Center’s three areas of mission: film/theater, women’s health, or civic engagement. Some internships will link students with current or past Hepburn Fellows, including Jane Eisner, Karen Stephenson, Susan Wood, Cynthia Eyakuze, and Judy Wicks.Undergraduates can also seek out and propose internships of their own devising that involve partnerships with other individuals and institutions committed to the areas of work that the Center encourages. More information about 2008 internships »

Conference to Examine Global Civic Engagement

International-development, public-health and human-rights professionals will join academics and student volunteers at Bryn Mawr next week to discuss civic engagement on a global scale. "International Civic Engagement: NGO Work in the Global South," a conference co-sponsored by the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center and the Center for International Studies, will take place Thursday and Friday, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, at Wyndham Alumnae House and the Dorothy Vernon Room. More about the International Civic Engagement Conference >>

Center, GSSWSR Co-sponsor "First Suburbs Summit"

On Friday, Dec. 7, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., academics and policymakers will gather in Thomas Great Hall to discuss the challenges faced by the older, developed suburbs of Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties and develop a regional agenda for change. The Hepburn Center and Bryn Mawr College's Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research are among the co-sponsors of the event.

Featured speakers are David Rusk, an expert on urban and suburban policy and the author of The Inside/Outside Game; and Professor John A. Powell, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University. They will be joined by Delaware Valley planners, officials and academics. For more information or to register, download this brochure.

Building Local Living Economies: Green, Fair and Fun
A Lecture by Hepburn Fellow Judy Wicks on Nov. 15

Entrepreneur and activist Judy Wicks will give a talk in Bryn Mawr's Thomas Great Hall at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15.

Wicks, the owner of Philadelphia's famous White Dog Café, is the co-founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, the founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and the president of White Dog Enterprises. She will tell her story, from her early experiences living with Eskimos, to starting the White Dog Café on the first floor of her home 24 years ago, to working cooperatively with other entrepreneurs to build a new economy based on local business ownership, fair practices—and love of nature.

Former Campus Compact Director Elizabeth Hollander '61
To Speak at Conference on Community Engagement

Elizabeth Hollander '61, a senior fellow at Tufts University's Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and the former executive director of Campus Compact, will give the keynote address at “Community Engagement and Learning: Within and Beyond the Campus,” a conference to be held at Bryn Mawr on Friday, Nov. 9. The conference, sponsored by the Hepburn Center, was organized by 2006-07 Hepburn Fellow Jane Eisner ... more about the conference

Leslie Rescorla Named Hepburn Center Director

Leslie Rescorla, a professor of psychology and director of the Child Study Institute and the Thorne Early Childhood Programs, will take the helm of the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center for the next two years. A key goal, Rescorla says, is fostering collaboration between the Hepburn Center and the College's interdisciplinary Centers for 21st-Century Inquiry (Rescorla has served as a co-director of one of these centers) ... more about Leslie Rescorla