Jean Donovan Fellowship Intensive
The JDF Intensive seeks to align the Mission of SCU, the Jesuit Apostolic Preferences, and high impact practices of community-engaged learning to expand on the existing Ignatian Center relationships with community-based organizations in Latin America. This Fellowship will provide support and full funding for a cadre of student leaders with demonstrated commitments to social justice that are seeking an intensive and formative Fellowship.
In addition to the Jean Donovan Fellowship learning objectives the intensive invites Fellows to deepen in their understanding of solidarity and vocation through these objectives:
- Serve as leaders within the Fellowship community sharing your lived experiences and work to align personal values with program values of social justice, simple living, and spirituality through the formation and Fellowship experience.
- Grow in lived experience of accompaniment experience while residing within or adjacent to the placement community.
Through the JDF Intensive Fellowship students worked with the following organizations in summer 2023:
At KBI Fellows accompany migrants daily and support staff with food preparation, meal service, and distribution of clothing/goods and with other organization needs. Founded in 2008, KBI is located in Nogales, Sonora, México, adjacent to the Mariposa Port of Entry. KBIs strategic priorities include: Holistic Accompaniment; Migrant Integration; Local Hospitality; Policy Change; Equity & Wellness. Fellows primary work will be to support the Comedor, which provides two meals to several hundred individuals and families daily. Fellows will reside in Nogales, Arizona, as arranged by Santa Clara University and work daily with KBI programs while living in an intentional community focused on social justice, simple living, and spirituality. Fellows will work with KBI for 6 weeks or longer between July 22nd - September 20th, 2024.
Fellows will accompany members of the Yomol Atel cooperative in daily life and support cooperative enterprises including coffee, honey and soap production as it continues to grow its production, commercialization and capacity building. Located in Chilón, Chiapas, México, Yomol A’tel has been a long-term partner of the Jesuit Network for over twenty years and has been hosting Santa Clara University students for immersion experiences since 2022. Fellows will reside in intern housing provided by Yomol A’tel while living in an intentional community focused on social justice, simple living, and spirituality. Fellows will work with Yomol A’tel for 6 weeks or longer between July 29th- September 20th, 2024.
Read Yomol A’tel Fellow Stories: