Office of Service-Learning
& Volunteer Programs

West Chester University

Office Location: B 19 Killinger Hall
Mailing Address: 238 Sykes Union
West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-3379


Student Staff

 

Alexa

Name: Alexa Albright

Hometown: Melrose Park, PA

Year in School: Second year

Facorite Service Project: Walking to raise money for brain tumor research.

Interesting Fact: I play the flute

Favorite Superhero: Storm from X-Men.

Favorite Quote: “Worry does not drive away trouble, it only destroys strength.” –Oliver G. Wilson.


 

Julia

Name: Julia Weber

Hometown: Levitown, PA

Year in School: Third year

Favorite Service Project: Favorite Service Project: I have 2 favorite service projects that I have participated in. The first is Samaritan Purse’s Operation Christmas Child which I take part in every year at my church, Andalusia Baptist Church. This service project involves filling shoe boxes with necessities and toys that get sent to children around the world during Christmas time. My second favorite service project is World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine. I have participated in this twice. It involves going on a hunger strike for 30 hours to feel the pain of starving that many people around the world feel on a daily basis.

Interesting Fact: In fifth grade I broke both of my wrists at the same time!


 

Mauricio

Name: Mauricio Martinez

Hometown: Nursing

Favorite Service Project: Helping in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in NYC over spring break

Interesting Fact: I like to hunt and fish

Favorite Superhero: Iron Man

Favorite Quote: Speak the truth, even when your voice shakes.


 

Emily

Name: Emily Schiling

Hometown: Blandon, PA

Year in School: Freshman

Favorite super hero: Rosie the Riveter

Favorite Service Project: Volunteering at my church food bank

Interesting Fact: I have been to China and plan to go back to work with a nonprofit organization called "Half the Sky".


 

Jasmine

Name: Jasmine Forster

Hometown: Aston, Pennsylvania

Year in School: Third Year

Major: Communicative Disorders

Favorite Service Project: I would say my current AmeriCorps Placement at SPARC: Southeastern Pennsylvania Autism Resource Center.

Interesting Fact: I’m going to Italy over spring break!

Favorite Quote: “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”-Albert Einstein


 

Skye

Name: Skye Hisiro

Hometown: Harrisburg

Year in School: Junior

Favorite Service Project: During my junior and senior years of high school, I travelled to New Orleans with a group from Habitat for Humanity. There we helped with the relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina. Both years I was there, my group worked on houses in the mold remediation stages. It was laborious, but inspiring at the same time. We were fortunate enough to meet a lot of great people and hear their stories.

Interesting Fact: When I was in first grade, my hair and face caught on fire in church while lighting candles after Sunday school.

Favorite Quote: “Do all you can with what you have in the time you have in the place you are.” - Nkosi Johnson



 

Erin

Name: Erin Prendergast

Major: Psychology

Favorite Service Project: Crafts at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Interesting Fact: I Irish danced for 13 years.

Favorite Quote: “Do for one what you wish you could do for all.” –Andy Stanle


 

Audris

Name: Audris Ahn

Major: Philosophy with a double minor in Applied Ethics and Psychology

Favorite Service Project: Relay for Life

Interesting Fact: : I volunteered abroad in Honduras last summer and next summer I will be doing the same in Africa

Favorite Superhero: Do the transformers count? =P

Favorite Quote: "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds". - Bob Marley