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Student Achievements: Courtney Gabaree
Class of 2010
Major: Anthropology/Sociology, Certificate in Non-profit Management
Courtney Gabaree is a Bonner Program Leader who is currently working at the Laraway School in Johnson, Vermont as a community liaison. This is her second semester with Laraway, where she is creating and maintaining a database matching current Laraway students with volunteer projects in the community.
In addition to the time she devotes to Laraway each week, Courtney also spends another 20 (or more!) hours a week organizing a campus group she co-founded with other JSC students called A Global Partnership: Students for Children’s Rights (SFCR).
The group was begun in fall 2007 as an effort to educate the JSC community about the issues facing children around the world. Courtney’s interest in children’s rights came about during a study-abroad trip to Panama in high school. The poverty and problems she saw there made her determined to take action.
SFCR has so far screened a number of documentaries on campus highlighting the plight of children around the globe, and marched as part of Global Night Commute, a national event aimed at raising awareness about the war in northern Uganda, where children are being kidnapped and forced to become child soldiers. She hopes the group will be able to organize a service trip abroad in the future.