[FREE FOR MEMBERS] Community Partnerships with a Lens of Reciprocity, Dialogue and Justice

What does it take to build reciprocity?
Essential to our work in experiential education is fostering reciprocal community partnerships. This requires a commitment to open dialogue with our partners, where we both seek to listen, understand, inform and build trust. Join us for a panel discussion to hear how two different partnerships have navigated this commitment.

Members: to sign up check the Winter Newsletter, the weekly email, or email Taras ([email protected]) for the registration link.

Facilitators: 

Christen Clougherty, PhD is the Founder and Executive Director of the Nobis Project. She brings over twenty years of experience as an educator and administrator in community organizations, K-12 public, charter and independent schools, and colleges/universities. Christen attributes her commitment to using service-learning and civic engagement to promote global citizenship to her experiences as a student at the Carolina Friends School. Her honors include recognition as a National Emerging Scholar for K-12 Service-Learning Research (2008 and 2009) by the National Service-Learning Partnership at the Academy for Educational Development. Christen received her Ph.D. in Quaker Studies from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. She completed her doctoral research on the synthesis of experiential education, service-learning, creative-process theory, and global citizenship education. Her Masters of Arts is from Savannah College of Art and Design where her thesis explored how socially conscious artist instigate social change. Christen is also a founding board member of two charter schools in Savannah, GA; Tybee Island Maritime Academy and Susie King Taylor Community School.

Mark Cutler is the director of Andover’s Learning in the World (LITW) student travel program. Cutler joined Phillips Academy in 2003. He has taught in the Spanish and Interdisciplinary Studies departments, been an instructor and director (2004–2016) of Outdoor Pursuits, served as a house counselor in small and large dorms, and contributed to numerous committees, including the Faculty Advisory Committee, Alumni Council Executive Committee, and Community Service Advisory Board. Since 2005, he has served as co-director of B.A.L.A.M. (Bilingual Archaeological Learning Adventure in Mesoamerica) and H.U.A.C.A. (Human Understanding through Archaeology and Cultural Awareness), both programs that he co-founded. Cutler has supervised community engagement projects and developed local LITW and place-based learning opportunities, and he has served as a board member and vice president of Lawrence History Center and as a founding board member of the Independent Schools Experiential Education Network.