Staff
Susan
Stroud, Executive Director
Susan
is the founder and Executive Director of
Innovations in Civic
Participation. One of the White House
architects of the National and
Community Trust Act of 1993, she served in
senior positions at the
Corporation for National and Community Service
to implement AmeriCorps
and Learn and Serve America. Previously, she
was the founding director
of Campus Compact, a national coalition of
university presidents, and
the
Jean Manney,
Program Associate
As ICP's Program Associate, Jean oversees the planning and implementation of a wide range of activities related to youth service, including helping to design effective policies and programs and expanding the global service network. Previously, Jean completed the International Partnership for Service-Learning’s graduate program and received her M.A. in International Service from Roehampton University in London, England. Through the program, she studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, volunteered with a youth empowerment organization in Guadalajara, Mexico and interned with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in London, where she conducted research for her Master’s dissertation on global citizenship and innovations in volunteering. Jean served for two years as an AmeriCorps*VISTA with Massachusetts Campus Compact, through which she developed campus-community partnerships and facilitated service-learning placements at Simmons College in Boston, MA. She also coordinated the community-based learning credit program at Georgetown University’s Center for Social Justice. Her B.A. is in International Relations and Spanish from Tufts University.
Kelly Fox,
Office Manager
Kelly
assists in the development and implementation
of ICP’s projects and serves as
the main point of contact for the ICP office.
Additionally she manages the ICP
newsletter and website. Kelly comes to ICP
after a semester studying Spanish in
Argentina and Chile through Escuelas y Centros
En Latinamérica. Previously, she
was Biology Coordinator for the Division of
Biology and Medicine at
Elizabeth
Babcock, Talloires Network
Coordinator
As
the Talloires Network Coordinator, Elizabeth
supports member
universities and the governing body of the
network through regular
outreach, information-sharing and strategic
planning. Elizabeth also
maintains the Talloires website and works on
expanding and
strengthening network initiatives for member
universities. Previously,
she was the Executive Director of the Civic
Knowledge Project at the
University of Chicago, working to increase
quality educational and
cultural programming and knowledge exchange
between the university and
its neighboring communities. In this position,
she worked on a
MacArthur funded mapping project of community
cultural organizations,
leading to the creation of a new
university-based support network for
these organizations. Elizabeth holds an M.A.
in Latin American Studies
from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in
Anthropology from the
University of Florida. She has traveled
extensively in Mexico, Peru,
Chile, Argentina and England.
Alex Etra,
Service Fellow
Alex is
one
of two 2007-2008 ICP Service Fellows. Service
Fellows provide administrative and
program support for ICP staff while gaining
substantive work experience in the
non-profit sector and further developing their
leadership potential. Before joining
ICP Alex
held
a visiting research fellowship at the SAPRA
India Foundation, a New Delhi-based
Indian think-tank that focuses on South Asian
regional security. In 2006
Alex graduated from Lewis & Clark College
with a B.A. in
International Affairs and a minor in Political
Economy. During a semester of
study in Washington D.C. in 2004, Alex was
Reagan-Fascell intern at National
Endowment for Democracy.