Meet Our New AmeriCorps Team!

AmeriCorps members have long been an integral part of NWEA programming. As Academic Success Tutors, members provide students with intensive one-on-one tutoring in a wide variety of areas. Whether it’s editing a personal statement, prepping for the GED, or helping with college algebra, members are there to support students and provide critical capacity to NWEA’s team.

We’re so pleased to announce our incoming AmeriCorps members who have chosen NWEA as their service site for the year! Even as virtual tutoring becomes critical, our members are bringing the passion and the skills to help smooth out what’s sure to be an unusual academic year.

Meet Maddy

Maddy is originally from Ventura, California and just graduated from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee with a bachelor’s in sociology and a minor in social work.  Maddy’s experience at community college helped reinforce her belief that education is a human right and that there is value in each individual path towards higher education, no matter how unconventional. Having spent the past four years working with youth, many of whom were low income students, Maddy is looking forward to continuing her efforts to fight against systemic barriers to postsecondary degrees with NWEA. She is passionate about providing support to students working towards their educational and career goals, especially those who are underrepresented and underserved.  In her free time, Maddy enjoys learning more about social justice issues, hiking, going to concerts (before covid), and spending time with friends.  She is excited to explore this new city and call Seattle home! 

Maddy

“I’m really excited to be working for such an inclusive organization and for all the opportunities to learn throughout the year!

I want to help my students be successful even in the face of challenges caused by COVID-19. I want to continue learning about social justice issues and strengthen my ability to advocate for others through this position.”

Meet Nat

Nat earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Pitzer College, a member of the Claremont Colleges, in 2018. Since then, he's worked in selective college admission for two small liberal arts colleges. He's passionate about college access, trans/queer rights, and racial justice. In his free time, he enjoys biking, shinrin-yoku ("forest bathing"), playing with dogs, eating Vietnamese food, and reading.

Nat

“I’m looking forward to working one-on-one with students and forming meaningful relationships with them! I am excited to help them, in some small way, to reach their educational goals.”

Meet Roseline

Roseline is a Ghanaian-American lady that recently graduated from the University of Washington. She double-majored in law, societies and justice and American ethnic studies. She also triple-minored in Labor Studies, Human Rights, and Diversity. Her desire is to go to law school in the future to be a powerful attorney so that she can help construct a multicultural America. Her interest in serving with Northwest Education Access stems from her zeal to use education as a vehicle to combat any systemic barrier that makes students second-class citizens.

Roseline

“I want to empower students with educational resources so that I can combat prison to pipeline issues, institutionalized racism, prison industrial complex, collateral punishment with disenfranchisement from criminal record, redlining, resegregation of poor and rich schools based on race, etc.

Once we grant students keys towards educational success, we grant them a chance and their communities a chance to thrive in dynamic ways.”