Lavin ΓÇÖ81 on Pulteney Street Podcast
24 July 2019 Lavin 81 on Pulteney Street Podcast
Episode 4: Christopher Lavin 81
On the most recent installment ofPulteney Street Podcast: Inside HWS with Joyce Jacobsen,Executive Director of the Geneva Community Center and Boys & Girls Club of GenevaChristopher Lavin 81 joins President Joyce P. Jacobsen to discussoperating and financingyouth educationprogramsand the impact of the HWS Tutor Corps on the lives of Genevas school children.
As a native of Geneva, N.Y., Lavinalso speakswith Jacobsen about his evolving relationship to his community as a child, college student and professional.Under his leadership at the Boys and Girls Club and in partnership with HWS Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning, Lavin oversaw the formation of the HWS Tutor Corps in 2017. Today, the Tutor Corps includesmore than 40 HWS students who serve as tutors and mentors for the Boys & Girls Club afterschool program.
Weve been able to harness and partner with these Colleges, Lavin tells Jacobsen. In his observations of Hobart and William Smith studentsserving as tutors at the club, Lavin says they have jumped right inand come back term after term.The idea of flooding the zone of these kids lives with young people that they can relate to, has been a great thing,he says.
Lavin joined the Geneva Community Center and the Boys & Girls Club in 2015. Previously, heserved as director of communications for the La Jolla Country Day School, in La Jolla, Calif. As a student, Lavin majored in anthropology and was a Geneva Scholarship Associates award recipient. He has worked at the Finger Lakes Times, the Rochester Times-Union, St. Petersburg Times and San Diego Union-Tribune.
For more information on President Jacobsen, visit herwebpage.
Thefirst episode of the Pulteney Street Podcastfeatured Executive Editor ofThe New Yorkerand former HWS Trustee Dorothy H. Wickenden 76, L.H.D. 14. Subscribe to the Pulteney Street Podcast onApple Podcasts,Spotify,Stitcher,or your podcast app of choice with theRSS feed.
The music for the podcast series was created by Alex Kerai 19.
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