HAMILTON — She was only there a year, but her immersion into the Miami University Hamilton campus and local service organizations gave Jennifer Reading a sense of place that she felt she missed growing up in San Diego, Calif.
After graduating from Miami University in Oxford, Reading signed up for a year with AmeriCorps VISTA, a program founded by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 to “fight the war on poverty.”
Reading joined through an organization called Ohio Campus Compact, which this year placed 35 recent college graduates in VISTA volunteer positions. She was placed at Miami University Hamilton in the Office of Civic Engagement to explore ways of alleviating poverty in Hamilton…
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