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CEF Advocacy Choir
Maggie West (UNC '10) Jon Young (UNC '10), & Janet Xiao (Duke '12), CEF with Choir: graduated from the University of North Carolina and Duke University. They were part of the team of students and shelter residents who founded the Community Empowerment Fund (CEF), and currently serve as Co-Directors. CEF is a student-powered and relationship-centered non-profit, focused on enabling and sustaining transitions out of homelessness and poverty. CEF Members and volunteer Advocates work together to gain stable housing and income, grow savings, and build financial stability.CEF Directors & Advocacy Choir
Maggie West (UNC '10) Jon Young (UNC '10), & Janet Xiao (Duke '12), CEF with Choir: graduated from the University of North Carolina and Duke University. They were part of the team of students and shelter residents who founded the Community Empowerment Fund (CEF), and currently serve as Co-Directors. CEF is a student-powered and relationship-centered non-profit, focused on enabling and sustaining transitions out of homelessness and poverty. CEF Members and volunteer Advocates work together to gain stable housing and income, grow savings, and build financial stability.Alex Washburn
Alexandros Washburn is a city designer and community builder. He is an architect who served as Chief Urban Designer for New York City in the Department of City Planning. When his neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn was flooded by Hurricane Sandy, he became a Professor the Stevens Institute of Technology to come up with ways to make cities resilient. He is now hyper-local, leading a community plan for the future of Red Hook out of the ground floor of his house.Brian Hogan
Dr. Brian Hogan is a Professor of Chemistry and the Director of the Carolina Covenant and Achieve Scholars Program. His research focuses on mentorship, college access and affordability, and is internationally recognized for his inclusive teaching methodologies. This seven- time teaching award winner is a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the University's highest honor for academic leadership, and is deeply dedicated in community engaged scholarship.Cecilia Polanco
Cecilia Polanco is a 2016 graduate of UNC, where she received a degree in Global Studies. The summer of her junior year she launched the food truck and catering company, So Good Pupusas and started catering at UNC. She works with members of her family and UNC undergraduates to create a scholarship fund for undocumented students pursuing their undergraduate degrees. So Good Pupusas, and their non-profit partner Pupusas for Education, aims to make higher education access more equitable for undocumented students through last dollar scholarships, one pupusa at a time. She currently works on So Good Pupusas and Pupusas for Education full time.Janet Xiao
Maggie West (UNC '10) Jon Young (UNC '10), & Janet Xiao (Duke '12), CEF with Choir: graduated from the University of North Carolina and Duke University. They were part of the team of students and shelter residents who founded the Community Empowerment Fund (CEF), and currently serve as Co-Directors. CEF is a student-powered and relationship-centered non-profit, focused on enabling and sustaining transitions out of homelessness and poverty. CEF Members and volunteer Advocates work together to gain stable housing and income, grow savings, and build financial stability.Jialing Jiang
Jialing Jiang is a senior, studying Economics and Philosophy, at UNC-Chapel Hill. At UNC, she founded the UNC International Ambassadors program and the first Chinese Cultural Month on campus. As part of the Schwarzman Scholars program, she will continue her studies post-graduation at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University to learn about China’s expanding role in the world. When she’s not coaching nonprofits on social entrepreneurship, she enjoys debating, dancing, and talking about penguins.Jon Young
Maggie West (UNC '10) Jon Young (UNC '10), & Janet Xiao (Duke '12), CEF with Choir: graduated from the University of North Carolina and Duke University. They were part of the team of students and shelter residents who founded the Community Empowerment Fund (CEF), and currently serve as Co-Directors. CEF is a student-powered and relationship-centered non-profit, focused on enabling and sustaining transitions out of homelessness and poverty. CEF Members and volunteer Advocates work together to gain stable housing and income, grow savings, and build financial stability.Ken Nwadike Jr.
Ken E. Nwadike Jr is a peace activist, motivational speaker, and video journalist known as the Free Hugs Guy online. Nwadike Jr is the founder of the Free Hugs Project, which produces motivational videos to spread love, inspire change, and raise awareness of social issues. His 'Free Hugs' videos have reached hundreds of millions of views on Facebook and YouTube.Lina Sergie Attar
Lina Sergie Attar is a Syrian American writer and architect from Aleppo. She is the co-founder and CEO of Karam Foundation - a nonprofit that's building a better future for Syria. She often travels to the Syrian border in southern Turkey to work with Syrian refugees. She was named one of GOOD magazine’s GOOD100 in 2016. Her writing has been published in the NYT, Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy, Politico, and BBC and has she spoken on CNN, NBC News, BBC News, Huffington Post, and NPR. Twitter handle: @amalhananoMaggie West
Maggie West (UNC '10) Jon Young (UNC '10), & Janet Xiao (Duke '12), CEF with Choir: graduated from the University of North Carolina and Duke University. They were part of the team of students and shelter residents who founded the Community Empowerment Fund (CEF), and currently serve as Co-Directors. CEF is a student-powered and relationship-centered non-profit, focused on enabling and sustaining transitions out of homelessness and poverty. CEF Members and volunteer Advocates work together to gain stable housing and income, grow savings, and build financial stability."Martha Isaacs
" Martha Isaacs will graduate in May 2017 with a B.A. in the Geography of Human Activity and minors in Philosophy and City and Regional Planning. Particularly interested in participatory planning to increase social capital in neighborhoods, especially through accessible transportation, she has worked for the New York City Anti-Violence Project, The Glass-House Community Design in London, and for Nelson\Nygaard, a transportation planning consulting firm in San Francisco. She is currently teaching a seminar course on how the built environment affects place-based identity and concepts of home, incorporating her interests in photography, filmmaking, and music into experiential learning methods in urban planning."Max Stossel
Max Stossel is an award winning filmmaker + poet with a unique style of storytelling. His work consistently goes viral, has been featured by the majority of major digital publications, by Lincoln Center, and has been written about in 12 languages. Before entering the creative world, Max spent 8 years creating social media strategies for fortune 500 brands and building a social network. The merging of these fields allows him to provide a fascinating perspective on modern culture and how technology is impacting humanity.Paul Cuadros
Paul Cuadros is an associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the chair of NC Scholars’ Latino Initiative, a college mentoring and preparatory program based at UNC-Chapel Hill and six local high schools. Dr. Cuadros is an award-winning investigative reporting and author whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Time magazine, and other national publications. He continues to write about immigration issues and is currently working on a feature film adaptation of his book, A Home on the Field, How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America.Sam Peterson
Samuel Peterson is the author of ""TRUNKY (transgender junky): A Memoir of Institutionalization & Southern Hospitality,"" on Transgress Press. He received his BA in Communication Studies from UNC-CH in 2013. Peterson is known for his love of octopuses and cats. His one-person show, ""F to M to Octopus,"" created with UNC faculty and students received several awards, is seeking a venue for 2018. "Organizing team
