Sindri McDonald

Sindri graduated from Saint Mary’s College of Maryland in 2006 with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies.  Prior to attending college Sindri received Amnesty International’s 2001 Patrick Stewart Human Rights Scholarship and spent six months working on issues of hunger and poverty with the Comunidad of Sant’Egidio in Rome, Italy.  During college, Sindri traveled to Chile where she participated in a community-based learning program and taught nutrition and self-esteem workshops for adolescent mothers, and completed a senior honors thesis exploring the work of women’s organizations involved in issues of urban poverty.

Field placement: FoodChange

New York, New York

Policy placement: Catholic Charities USA

Alexandria, Virginia