Staff Profiles/Contact Information

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Joby Taylor, Director Shriver Peaceworker Program The Shriver Center/UMBC 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 410-455-6398 joby.taylor@umbc.edu

Joby Taylor came to Baltimore as a Peaceworker Fellow himself in 1999 and liked the program and the city so much that he has proudly stayed on, becoming program director in 2003. Joby was born and raised in Miami, Oklahoma, a small town that is also home to eight Native American nations. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon, Africa (91-93) helping build an elementary school in the village of Seka Seka, and, as all RPCVs soon find, he learned much more than he gave along the way. Joby’s involvement in service and service-learning has included other construction projects in the U.S. and the Caribbean, but also much work with youth, particularly at-risk and special needs youth. Academically Joby received his BA in Philosophy, an MA in Religious Studies, and completed his Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Language Literacy and Culture program. His dissertation is titled: Metaphors We Serve By: Critical and Constructive Play with the Discourses on Service. Joby lives in Baltimore City with his wife Beth and their two girls, Isabel and Katherine.

Recent Publications

• Reflections on Campus Engagement: The Value of Vision, Setting, and Talent (Metropolitan Universities – M. Terranova, J. Martello, and J. Taylor).
• Metaphors We Serve By: Investigating the Conceptual Metaphors Framing National and Community Service and Service-Learning (Michigan Journal – J. Taylor).
• The Invisible Race: Understanding Whiteness and Unbecoming White (LLC Review – J. Taylor).
• Metaphors We Serve By (Dissertation – J. Taylor).

Jennifer Arndt Robinson, Deputy Director Shriver Peaceworker Program The Shriver Center/UMBC 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 410-455-6313 jarndt@umbc.edu

Jennifer Arndt Robinson came to Baltimore as a Shriver Peaceworker Fellow in 1998, and completed her MPP degree at Johns Hopkins University in 2000. Jennifer is originally from Illinois, but has also spent time in NYC, Florida, and Iowa. She completed her Peace Corps service from 1995 to 1997 working in the Republic of Moldova as a TEFL volunteer in the village of Lapusna. Jennifer’s academic life has focused on education in all of its forms – from an undergraduate degree in elementary education and teaching reading to a master’s thesis focusing on the effective evaluation of service-learning programs. As a graduate student she completed a policy internship in the Department of Service-Learning at the Corporation for National and Community Service. Her previous professional positions include work with an AmeriCorps program focusing on lead poisoning education, a Baltimore City nonprofit teaching advocacy skills to Baltimore City youth, and with the MPP degree program at JHU. She credits the Peaceworker program with introducing her to the nuanced and entertaining world that is Baltimore City. Jennifer lives near Patterson Park with her husband, Scott and their dog, Lucy. She is an active member of Chizuk Amuno Congregation, where she serves on the Board of Trustees. Jennifer also serves on the Board of Directors for the Friends of Patterson Park.

Susy Pincheira, Assistant Shriver Peaceworker Program The Shriver Center/UMBC 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 410-455-1802 pincheir@umbc.edu

Susy Pincheira came to the United States from Temuco, Chile, South America in 1994. In 1995, she married Steve Sullivan, a Peace Corps Volunteer that she had worked with at Chile’s version of the Small Business Administration. Susy came to the Shriver Center at UMBC after her husband accepted a Shriver Peaceworker Fellowship in 1996. She has been working in the Shriver Center in various capacities since that time, currently managing the administrative component of the Shriver Peaceworker Program. Susy lives in Catonsville with her husband and their three children, Paul, Alejandra and Robert.