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North Park Student Awarded Environmental Fellowship
CHICAGO, IL (January 28, 2003) - Sara Spoonheim, a second year masters degree
candidate in community development and Christian ministry at North Park
University and North Park Theological Seminary, is among those selected to
the 2003-2004 Fellows for the prestigious Environmental Leadership Program
(ELP).
The program selected Spoonheim and 19 others from more than 300
applications for the two-year national fellowship, which trains a network
of talented environmental leaders. The focus of the fellowship is to seek
new solutions to environmental problems facing local, national, and
international communities.
Spoonheim was recognized for her ground-breaking work with HomeWORD, a new
community development corporation in Missoula, Montana, that has received
national acclaim for its innovative strategies, housing designs and use of
resourceful materials. Housing through HomeWORD is designed to be
affordable to households earning less than 80 percent of the median income
for Missoula. Spoonheim and Ron Essene helped design a home that earned
honorable mention in the 1996 National Energy Value Housing Award
Competition.
A 1995 graduate of Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut,
Spoonheim spent five years helping low income women through HomeWORD. Her
work in Missoula is a way for her to "address the systemic causes of
poverty and environmental destruction along with the symptoms," as she sees
it. Spoonheim also has served with the National
Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice in Chicago.
For more information about ELP, call program assistant Kim Mergenthaler at
617-354-4052 or email her at kim@elpnet.org.
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