Career Roadmap
Carrie's work combines: Education, Non-Profit Organizations, and Learning / Being Challenged
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Paul VI High Shool
Bachelor's Degree
Family and Community Services
Providence College
Graduate Degree
Higher Education/Higher Education Administration
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Doctorate
Sociology, General
George Mason University
Here's the path I recommend for someone who wants to be a Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary:
Bachelor's Degree: Make-Up Artist/Specialist
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Life & Career Milestones
My path in life took a while to figure out
1.
Volunteering at a homeless shelter in high school
2.
Pursued a community-based learning program and undergraduate major in Public and Community Service Studies focused on community building for social change
3.
Working for four years with middle school boys, many connected to the correctional system as a tutor, a research assistant, a grant writer, and a volunteer coordinator/educator
4.
Taking a year to help with family members in need
5.
Working in Baltimore with clients to access social services, many who were coming out of the correctional system
6.
Completing a master's in higher education with a focus in service-learning, working with a court-mandated "nurturing father's program" and teaching service-learning to undergraduates
7.
Working for a service-learning program in Philadelphia and becoming involved in a prison education program that offers college courses to university students and incarcerated students taken together
8.
Pursuing a doctorate with a dissertation on shared learning spaces between people incarcerated and university students and learning that occurs together in collaborative movements for social change
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Peers:
The social change you work for is too idealistic, or those you want to include in dialogue will never be changed, they are beyond learning or redemption. Others aren't worth engaging because they are ignorant or incapable of doing the work themselves.
How I responded:
Mary Oliver wrote, "There are things you can't reach, but you can reach out to them, all day long." Bryan Stevenson wrote, "I don’t do what I do because it’s required or necessary or important. I do it because I’m broken, too. The ways in which I have been hurt- and have hurt others- are different from the ways others suffer and cause suffering. But our shared brokenness connects us." Doing social change work isn't about what you can "achieve," but how you connect and transform with others.
Experiences and challenges that shaped me