Clara Roth
Dickinson College 2021
Leadership Experience
Community Engagement Fellows Coordinator
Dickinson College Center for Civic Learning and Action | August 2020 - May 2021
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Manage Community Engagement Fellows (CEF) and create a team environment
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Communicate with students, administration, and community partners
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Plan, organize, and lead weekly team meetings covering topics such as leadership, current events, and civic engagement
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Organize and facilitate workshops on Allyship and Making Change
Community Engagement Fellow Intern
Carlisle Arts Learning Center | September 2017 - December 2019
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Awarded a five-semester internship as a Community Engagement Fellow with the Carlisle Arts Learning Center
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Assisted the executive director in day-to-day operations, organizing, planning, and holding events in the Carlisle community
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Wrote a grant as a capstone project that included curating an exhibition of donated works to fundraise and increasing CALC’s branding
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Developed skills in communication, organization, and community engagement
Photography Intern
Dickinson College Department of Art & Art History | Summer 2019
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Joined Photography Professor, Andrew Bale, and Jon Cox in Idaho to assist in the creating of Arrivals: What's Left Behind, What Lies Ahead
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Spent two weeks in the field documenting the stories of immigrants, refugees, and displaced Indigenous Peoples through photography, audio, and video
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Operated drone, assisted in producing a video on the weeks spent in Idaho, processed film digitally edited scans, organized media, and curated project website
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Worked with a small team making connections with people throughout Idaho
Hive Intern
Dickinson College Center for Sustainability Education | August 2018 - May 2019
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Managed Dickinson College’s Bee Cooperative, oversaw Bee Campus USA Committee
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Oversaw five specialized working groups, planning, overseeing, and managing club events for each
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Engaged Dickinson community in the Hive by writing the educational “Bee.F.F.” updates, creating and advertising events that appealed to a broad audience
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Promote sustainability on campus and assisted in beehive care
Additional Leadership
Experience:
for leadership in sustainability at Dickinson
2020 Newman Civic Fellow- for civic engagement and leadership at Dickinson
President’s Commission on Environmental Sustainability
Environmental Science & Studies and the Art & Art History Department Majors Committees
Rwanda on a Dickinson College Mosaic trip and studied the 1994 Tutsi genocide and the country’s recovery, whilst documenting it through photography
Assisted in the setting up, managing, and troubleshooting of a month-long Pop-Up Portrait Studio in the heart of Kensington, Philadelphia with Photographer Jeffrey Stockbridge
Assisted entomologist Douglas B. Sponsler in the collection of data studying urban bee populations