As the new Northeast Recruiter, Katie Swick is back on her home turf of New England after moving back from three years of living in Knoxville, Tennessee. A native from Maine, she graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BA in Anthropology. With public service being one of her interests, she persued life after college by traveling and doing community service.

Katie completed a year of Americorps*NCCC based out of Denver, Colorado and then later a year of Americorps in Knoxville. In between, she was an instuctor for people with develomental disabilties in Plattsburgh, NY, spent 4 months in India volunteering, and worked at a Maine state park two summers. Her last (and greatest) adventure was an SCA environmental education internship in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at Purchase Knob, North Carolina. Katie mostly worked with local middle school students doing hands-on, research based learning. The lessons involved using sucky-uppies to examine macro invertabrates, augers to look at soil samples, assessing skills to determine ozone damage on plants, and teamwork to count lichens on trees. Sometimes she wonders who learned more her or the kids. Either way, everyone loved the location- 5000 ft elevation with green fields, gorgeous mountains, and unpredictable weather. Katie is very excited to be helping other people gain new wonderous experiences with SCA.

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Katie's Fall 2008 Schedule: