Name:	Kerrissa Heffernan
Title:	Associate Director, Swearer Center for Public Service
Department:	Swearer Center
Organization:	Brown University
Phone:	(401) 863-1529
Fax:	(401) 863-3094
Email:	kerrissa_heffernan [a] brown.edu
Address:	25 George St. Providence, RI 02912

Brief Biography:
Kerrissa Heffernan is the Associate Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University and directs the Royce, CV Starr and Sport and Society Fellowships. Previously she was a senior associate in Integrating Service with Academic Study at Campus Compact and the Arnow-Weiler professor of liberal arts at Lasell College, director of the Center for Public Service and director of the Donahue Institute for Values and Public Life. She is the co-editor of The Practice of Change: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Women's Studies, co-editor of The Introduction to Service-Learning Toolkit: Readings and Resources for Faculty, and author of Fundamentals of Service-Learning Course Construction. Common presentations include The Fundamentals of Service-Learning Part One: Course Construction and Part Two: Assignments and Prompts--Composing Coherence.

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