Tuesday /
January 3, 2012
We are proud to announce that 826 Boston's November 2011 Volunteer of the Month is
Johnny Sadoff!
Johnny has participated in volunteer led fundraisers such as the Write-A-Thon, tutored weekly during after-school and Saturday
tutoring, assisted in workshops such as hip-hop lyric writing, attended countless in-school projects and was a guest at our Books for Breakfast fundraiser. The real question is what hasn't Johnny done for 826 Boston?
Johnny says,
"I volunteer at 826 Boston because it's poetry in motion. Every time I'm at 826 or an 826 production I'm continually amazed at the magical I've just stepped into. You always get the sense that something is happening or is about to happen. Your not quite sure what - but you're real excited to find out. "
Johnny was born in Washington, DC (the real DC) and came to Boston for graduate school in education. He is currently a program coordinator for
Tutors for ALL - a non profit organization that tutors students one-on-one in English and Math. When he isn't volunteering at 826, he loves to run, play chess and read. He hasn't decided what he wants to be when he grows up.
Thank you, Johnny, for all that you do! Thank you,
Harvard Book Store, for sponsoring our Volunteer of the Month program!
Friday /
November 18, 2011
This month, 826 Boston is recognizing Kenneth Love Villar for his noble volunteer efforts!
Kenneth hails from Spain by way of California. He came to Boston to study Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University. Whether he's providing writing support at one of the various schools around Boston in which he volunteers as an 826 tutor, or tirelessly helping our staff pull off a banner event,
Kenneth's warm generosity (and dry sense of humor) make us grateful that he is a member of our team. What's not to love?
Kenneth says, "I love being part of 826's creative, fun-loving environment, where even a particularly thorny math problem can't keep a smile off your face for too long. The energy and enthusiasm that the tutors and tutored bring to the table every day is just that infectious."
Thank you, Kenneth, for all that you do!
Thank you, Harvard Book Store, for sponsoring our Volunteer of the Month program!
Friday /
November 18, 2011
Volunteer of the Month: September 2011
We are proud to announce that 826 Boston's September volunteer of the month is Tianna Tagami! Tianna tirelessly worked as a tutor during summer camp, helped with book stitching and mailings and even lead an August work shop entitled "Need to Know." She continues to volunteer during after school and Saturday tutoring and now that she is newly engaged (Congratulations!) she has decided to add 826 Boston to her wedding registry - what a bride to be!
Tianna says,
"I volunteer at 826 because I am addicted to the
energy of the kids, and it is my great privilege to help them blaze their trails and share their gifts."
Tianna is super-stoked to be volunteering at 826 Boston. After trying fruitlessly, for many years, to get an 826 in Phoenix, she moved 3,000 miles to land at the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute. To support her volunteering habit, she spends her days designing digital learning experiences at Cengage, an educational publisher, and her nights greeting customers and slinging burgers and drinks at Joshua Tree in Davis Square.
Thank you, Tianna, for all your hard work and generosity!
Thank you, Harvard Book Store, for sponsoring our Volunteer of the Month program!
Monday /
October 17, 2011
Volunteer of the Month: August 2011
We are proud to announce that 826 Boston's August volunteer of the month is Katrina Grigg-Saito! Katrina helped us with field trips, August workshops, and also fundraising for the Write-a-thon.
In the future, Katrina plans to dedicate even more of her precious time with us to work on programming like the College Essay Boot Camp coming up on Saturday, October 29th. She also wants to help publish stories by our young authors and even hopes to record some of their stories on audio.
Katrina says,
"I'm devoted to 826, because it's a space for kids to get comfy with their imaginations and get confident expressing their wonderful, zany, heartbreaking ideas. Take kids, writing, staff & volunteers that you want to hang out with all the time, and 826 is pretty irresistible. Plus there's the awesome mission of finding Bigfoot. El Chupacabra lives!"
When Katrina is not helping students search for Bigfoot, she works as an actress turned academic turned journalist turned TV reporter turned essayist turned writer of children's books the first of which will be published soon by Little, Brown. She grew up just down the street in Jamaica Plain.
Thank you, Katrina, for all you're help this summer!
Thank you, Harvard Book Store, for sponsoring our Volunteer of the Month program!
Monday /
August 1, 2011
We are proud to announce that 826 Boston's July volunteer of the month is Rodrigo Garcia! Rodrigo helped us learn about pulleys, catapults, and Rube Goldberg machines. He also led a water balloon siege using catapults for our students in Franklin Park.
Rodrigo found out about 826 Boston through his friend, Chris, who co-taught several exciting lessons with him throughout the summer.
Rodrigo volunteers at 826 Boston because, he says,
"Teaching and science are two of my passions and 826 Boston combines these two in a very unique, exciting, and absolutely fun way. They provide a great service to the community, and I am glad to have been a small part of that this summer."
Small, shmall, Rodrigo! When Rodrigo is not building with 826 Boston students and teaching about how things work, he is a PhD candidate at MIT, studying neuroscience, where he gets to play with brains and look at how the minute stuff in there helps us understand things like learning and memory, as well as look for potential ways to treat mental health.
Thank you, Rodrigo, for all you're help this summer!
Thank you, Harvard Book Store, for sponsoring our Volunteer of the Month program!
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