Melissa Crum, PhD candidate in the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy, has been selected as a 2013-2014 Columbus-Athens Schweitzer Fellow. Over the next year, she will join Schweitzer Fellows across the country to collaboratively lead community-based projects that seek to transform underserved communities. She was selected by the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF).

Crum and the Greater Linden Development Corporation youth leadership group will facilitate video interviews of local residents discussing their community’s history to teach high school students about their neighborhood. The goal is to empower them to influence neighborhood ownership and responsibility for its residents and property, helping students invest in their community in a new and creative way.

The 13 Columbus-Athens Fellows will join approximately 220 other 2013-14 Schweitzer Fellows working at 13 program sites, 12 in the U.S. and one in Lambaréné, Gabon, at the site of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital. Upon completion of their Fellowship year, they will be come Schweitzer Fellows for Life.