Biography - Sarah E. Hutchison

 

In her capacity as NewsWatch Editor and Program Assistant, Sarah Hutchison supports the community relations work of NCSJ, researching and reporting on regional developments, producing publications, maintaining the NCSJ Web site and editing the NCSJ Country Reports. She also helps coordinate NCSJ's Kehilla Projects and other community-based initiatives, and organizes and staffs events.

Sarah is from Richmond, Virginia, and graduated, as a Monroe Scholar, cum laude with a B.A. in English and a minor in Russian language and literature from The College of William and Mary.  She spent her junior year abroad at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Sarah has traveled extensively in Western Europe and the FSU, having participated in student exchanges to Latvia and St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1995.  Following her year abroad, Sarah won a Charles Center Summer Scholarship in order to volunteer in the restoration of the Pecherska Lavra (Caves Monastery) in Kyiv, Ukraine, as well as of an economics institute in Moscow. 

Sarah Hutchison with (l.-r.) Faina Pritzker, HIAS representative in Ukraine; Yana Yanover, Director of the Center of Jewish Education in Ukraine

Reflecting her strong interest in design, Sarah worked as a graphics editor on William and Mary's student paper, the Flat Hat, and drew graphics for the Web site of a Richmond “dot com.” 

During college, she tutored English as a Second Language with the Rita Welsh Adult Skills Center and the James City County Public Library.  Sarah also volunteered at Avalon Crisis Center for Women and Children in Williamsburg, VA.

In addition to English, she speaks French and Russian.


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