Sara Saylor’s passion for local community engagement began as a student at U-M in 1995. (Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography)
Five years ago, Sara Saylor saw a message in a Facebook group for the local Ethiopian adoption community inquiring about interest in arranging a heritage camp for the kids.
After that first successful summer, Saylor, Community Engagement Lead at the Ginsberg Center, has worked with a core group of volunteers to organize Kamp Kurat every summer since.
“We asked ourselves, ‘How do we create a really safe and exciting space for our kids to embrace their Ethiopian identity, their black identity, their adopted identity?'” she said.
Saylor’s passion for local community engagement began as a student at the University of Michigan in 1995. As an undergraduate, she began a visitation program to expose Detroit elementary students to college students and organized monthly service opportunities for students through Project SERVE. After graduating, she took many different positions working with students and realized she wanted to help students succeed by addressing the systemic inequalities in the education system.
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