10th
Class Fellows Commencement Ceremony July
26, 2004
The 10th Class of
Emerson National Hunger Fellows
Master of Ceremonies
Ed Cooney, welcomes Fellows, supervisors, family, and
guests
Katherine Emerson,
daughter of Jo Ann and Bill Emerson, thanks the Emerson
Hunger Fellows for their year of service in her father's
name.
10th Class Emerson
Fellow, Sarah Garrett introduces the winner of the Bill
Emerson Award for Excellence in Policy Work.
Kay Bengston, of Lutheran
Office for Governmental Affairs, receives the Bill Emerson
Award.
10th Class Emerson
Fellow Yesenia Garcia introduces the winner of the Mickey
Leland Award for Excellence in Policy Work
Former Hunger Fellow
Supervisor Shelley Curtis, Nutrition Outreach and Food
Policy Manager at the Children's Alliance in Seattle,
Washington, receives The Mickey Leland Award.
Keynote speaker Joel
Berg, Executive Director of New York City Coalition
Against Hunger
10th Class Emerson
Hunger Fellows enjoy their Commencement 2004
10th Class Fellows
Patience Butler and Bi Vuong read "Ode to the Fellows."l
9th Class Alum Hun
Quach (left) and 10th Class Fellow Sarah Garrett (right)
honor their award-winning supervisor Kay Bengston.
10th Class Fellows celebrate
with family:
Fellow Elizabeth Whelan
with her brother.
Shana McDavis-Conway
with her stepfather
The Lopez Family
Family of Patience
Butler
Fellow Bridget Purdue
with her mom and supervisor, Michael Culliton of NETWORK.
Sarah Garrett with
her mom and supervisor, Kay Bengston
Alumni, CHC Staff and
Hunger Fellow Supervisors Celebrate 10th Class Fellows:
Supervisor Ray Boshara
(New America Foundation) with 9th Class Alum Anna Krieger
and 10th Class Fellow Rajiv Magge
Fellow Bi Vuong with
her Supervisor, Kim Perry of D.C. Hunger Solutions.
8th Class Alum Alison
Leff and her former supervisor, Chester Hartman of the
Poverty and Race Research Action Council
Yesenia Garcia, Shelley
Curtis and Patience Butler
Emerson Fellow Supervisor
Julie Paradis of America's Second Harvest (center) with
three years of Hunger Fellows: 8th Class Alum Jenna
Churchman, 10th Class Fellow Wick Ruehling, and 8th
Class alum Matt Ching
2nd Class Alum Kelvin
Coleman with 10th Class Fellow Sean Coffey and friend
Kylie.
9th Class Alumni Anna
Krieger and Molly Neck
9th Class Alumni Celebrate
with fellows and program staff
10th Class Fellow
Rebekah Park with CHC Deputy Director Dr. Margaret Zeigler
and CHC Executive Director Ed Cooney
10th Class Fellows
Rachel Clay, Elizabeth Whelan, Patience Butler, and
Amaliya Moragn-Brown
10th Class Fellow
Jeanine Valles (center) with supervisor Julie Brewer
of Bread for the World and Red Sox enthusiast Matt LaFratta
