Kenya Cropps participated in Girl Scouts when she was younger and has always been service-oriented. So when the Reynolds High School junior learned about $250 community service mini-grants being offered by Wake Forest University’s Office of Civic and Community Engagement (OCCE), she […]
When Wake Forest senior Jack Rolle was 10, doctors discovered a malignant tumor on his pituitary gland. After it was removed, he endured more than a dozen rounds of chemotherapy and missed a year of school.
Defending Democracy – created in partnership with the Office of Civic & Community Engagement, Office of the Provost, Wake Forest School of Law Criminal Justice Program, and the Race, Inequality, and Policy Initiative (RIPI) – is a three-part webinar series that examined the insurrection of […]
Despite a year like no other, the Kids’ Cooking Coalition (KCC) is back. Together, organizers reimagined the delivery of its curriculum to fit into the virtual landscape that has occupied the lives of so many over the past year. The transition to a […]
For years, Julia McElhinny thought she wanted to be a marine biologist — until she watched the documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth.” “That’s when my entire mindset changed,” said McElhinny, a junior biology major from Simpsonville, South Carolina. “It hit me … that […]
Each month, the Office of Civic & Community Engagement (OCCE) profiles a community partner and its relationship with Wake Forest University. For the month of March, the OCCE is proud to feature Selene Johnson, Executive Director of ABC OF NC. ABC of […]
