Tiffany Gilmore
Class: Graduate '01
Academics: English Major; Women's Studies Minor
Hometown: Davis, California
Internship Site: Chicago Area Projects (Women in Transition) and Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network
Service Site: Designing and implementing a GED/literacy program in Wentworth Gardens, a housing project on the Southside of Chicago

Internship/Service Experience:
My ULIP internship influenced the focus of my English studies in that I began to read literature with a distinctive interest in how class, race and gender shape narrative.  After graduation I took a job in the office of service learning and civic leadership at Miami to help integrate service learning across disciplinary curriculum.  Upon arrival at graduate school, I knew that my focused area of study would need to engage with both intellectual and service learning perspectives, or at least a project that incorporated the potential for service.  Last summer I interned at a non-profit and traveled to Haiti on a human rights investigation delegation and I am currently doing a series of campus and community talks about my experience and how people can help create meaningful change in Haiti through accountable non-profits.  My ideal career is one that allows me to teach and research but still allows me time for service work either in Haiti or with Haitian Amer icans in the States.  Without doubt, my ULIP internship allowed me to re-imagine what an academic career can incorporate and shaped the trajectory of my dissertation.

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