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The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice

Jennifer Tucker and Supporting Kids in Peru (SKIP)

Jennifer Tucker is excited to be working with Supporting Kids in Peru (SKIP), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping poor children from El Porvenir access quality education. While Peruvian law mandates free public education, fees can prevent poor families from sending their children to school.  SKIP challenges this inequity through holistic programs in cost-defrayment, academic assistance and family economy.

Jennifer will be working with the staff of SKIP to evaluate and design strategies that effectively advance a progressive education agenda. She will also support SKIP as they define their model of social change and help to promote advocacy among students, parents, teachers and community members.

Currently, Jennifer is studying public policy at Berkeley’s Goldman School while pursuing a concurrent Masters degree in Latin American development studies.

Jennifer has worked as a community organizer on a range of issues, including the environment, reproductive rights, and corporate responsibility. Through these experiences, she sharpened her understanding of the roots of social problems, witnessed the transformation of ordinary people into powerful agents of change, and solidified her commitment to building the skillful citizen activists needed to create a more just, sustainable world.

After a year of travel in South America, she volunteered for Peace Corps Paraguay where she worked with women’s and youth groups to identify and implement community projects. She is most proud of the relationships she built with the Paraguayans in her community and of her deepened understanding of the roots and consequences of poverty. She is also pretty psyched to have learned Guaraní, the first language of most Paraguayans.

Jennifer is excited to explore The Advocacy Project’s model of social change which recognizes the commonalities among advocacy efforts around the world, harnesses the power of collective action, and seeks to build effective partnerships between North Americans and poor communities in the Global South.

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