The former Policy Institute director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task force has taken a post at Kalamazoo College.
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently interviewed her about the move.
Excerpt:
When Jaime Grant got a phone call suggesting that she leave behind two decades' worth of social-justice work in Washington and move to Kalamazoo College, in Michigan, which enrolls about 1,400 students, she said the caller must have the wrong person. But after hearing more about the job offer — to lead Kalamazoo's new Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership — and visiting the campus, she decided on a big change of scenery.
When she talked with Kalamazoo students during her visit, she said, "there wasn't a student who was there who wasn't really thinking about service work." The creative possibilities and potential to have an impact won her over.
Ms. Grant, 49, has long focused on the goals promoted by the Arcus center: leadership development and social justice.
To find out more about what Grant hopes to do in Kalamazoo, read the
rest of the story.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
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