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 Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University. Susan worked in several countries while consulting to the Ford Foundation, most notably helping to create a network of university-based programs in South Africa and various service initiatives in Russia and Mexico. Susan is the founding president of the International Council on National Youth Policy and a senior fellow of the University College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University.

Jean Manney, Program Associate

As ICP's Program Associate, Jean works with the Executive Director to manage national and international projects as well as aspects of organizational development and communications.  Specifically, Jean manages projects relating to the International Association for National Youth Service (IANYS), Summer of Service and fundraising for ICP. 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 Autonoma 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.  Jean is a third-generation national youth service participant. 

Colleen Hammelman, Program Associate

As ICP's Program Associate, Colleen works with the Executive Director to manage national and international projects as well as aspects of organizational development and communications. Specifically, Colleen manages projects relating to capacity building in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, youth service and environmental sustainability, developing pathways to teaching careers for AmeriCorps members, measuring the impact of youth civic engagement and ICP communications. Before joining ICP, Colleen served as an advocacy associate at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights where she oversaw the annual Human Rights Award and assisted with project implementation in support of the RFK Human Rights Award Laureates. Previously, Colleen also conducted research on international human rights for the Institute for Strategic and International Studies - Malaysia. Colleen completed her MA in International Affairs at American University and her BA in Technical Journalism and Political Science at Colorado State University.  She has language skills in Arabic, Spanish and Hindi.

Kelly Fox, Development Associate

After serving as the ICP Office Manager for a couple years, Kelly now focuses on development and fundraising activites, as well as assisting with some communications work such as the newsletter and website maintenance. Kelly comes to ICP after a semester studying Spanish in Argentina and Chile through Escuelas y Centros En Latinamerica. Previously, she was Biology Coordinator for the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University. Kelly received her B.A. in Sociology from Brown University in 2005.

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.

John Pollock, Talloires Network Program Assistant

Marlin Payne, Summer of Service Fellow

As ICP's Summer of Service Fellow, Marlin assists the Program Associate in managing the Summer of Summer Initiative. Specifically, Marlin oversees the Summer of Service Online Resource Center and assists in research, communications, fundraising, and overall project support. He is a recent graduate of Saint Vincent College with a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Communication.  Since 2005, Marlin has worked with a local youth serving organization in his native Newark, NJ connecting underserved students with the resources they need to stay in school and graduate from high school. In 2008, Marlin interned in the Office of Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (WI-02) as the James G. Fulton and J. Steele Gow Fellow at the Les Aspin Center in Washington, DC. That same year he traveled to Rome as an academic scholar, volunteered with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, and traveled to Kenya to examine the relationship between governments, NGOs and funding agencies.