Last spring, Teach for America selected 27 recent graduates of the University of Kentucky to serve in America’s inner cities and rural communities. The UK group, the largest in school history, is among 5,800 new corps members selected for Teach for America, a national program in which outstanding college graduates commit to teach for two years in disadvantaged urban and rural public schools.
Of the 27 recent UK graduates selected to serve Teach for America, the following 23 have accepted teaching positions with the program:
- Michael Baird, of Corbin, Ky., a theatre graduate who will serve in St. Louis, Mo.;
- Lindsay Baranowski, of Prospect, Ky., a music performance and Spanish graduate who will serve in Milwaukee, Wis.;
- Shannon Bauer, of Louisville, Ky., a history and English graduate who will serve in Indianapolis, Ind.;
- Justin Buren, of Louisville, a political science graduate who will serve in Houston, Texas;
- Jennifer Chadwick, of Louisville, an architecture graduate who will serve in Houston;
- Molly Coon, of Indianapolis, Ind., an architecture graduate who will serve in the Delta;
- Kari Cornett, of Pineville, Ky., an English graduate who will serve in Appalachia;
- Lesley Cornett, of Whitesburg, Ky., a secondary English education graduate who will serve in Alabama;
- Anna Davis, of Ft. Mitchell, Ky., a psychology graduate who will serve in Indianapolis, Ind.;
- Megan Day, of Granger, Ind., a family sciences graduate who will serve in Alabama;
- Erin Fehrenbach, of Lexington, a biology graduate who will serve in Dallas, Texas;
- Jenna Goblirsch, of Elizabethtown, Ky., a kinesiology graduate who will serve in Chicago, Ill.;
- Bruce Herring, of Louisville, a sociology graduate who will serve in Atlanta, Ga.;
- Lauren Ison, of Greenup, Ky., a chemistry graduate who will serve in Houston, Texas;
- Angel Jackson, of Radcliff, Ky., an English and history graduate who will serve in Indianapolis, Ind.;
- Brooke McCloud, of Bowling Green, Ky., a journalism graduate who will serve in Nashville, Tenn.;
- Allison McVey, of Cynthiana, Ky., a history and international studies graduate who will serve in Nashville, Tenn.;
- Eleni Minor, of Lexington, an economics graduate who will serve in southwest Ohio;
- Brian Pierce, of Mt. Washington, Ky., an architecture graduate who will serve in South Carolina;
- Josh Ridgeway, of Winchester, Ky., a social work graduate who will serve in Indianapolis;
- Lindsey Smith, of Monticello, Ky., a secondary English education graduate who will serve in Alabama;
- Clay Stanley, of Louisville, a kinesiology graduate who will serve in New Orleans, La.; and
- Austin Wilson, of Louisville, a mathematics graduate who will serve in Oklahoma.
The 2012 class of Teach for America recruits is up two corps members from previous groups selected to serve from UK. Congratulations to all of these alums for making a difference across the country!
*Content from Whitney Hale, UK Public Relations and Marketing
Photo courtesy Teach for America.
