DOMAGUIN, Daniel R. '06
After Oberlin, I served as the first Literacy Coordinator and AmeriCorps*VISTA for Brooklawn Child & Family Services, a residential treatment center in Louisville, Kentucky serving 100+ emotionally and behaviorally troubled boys from across the Commonwealth. I established the after-school tutoring program, which included recruiting/training/supervising 40+ volunteer tutors and building a library of books and cultural diversity educational materials. I also assisted my fellow staff in direct client treatment through recreational therapy, martial arts therapy and milieu therapy. My experience at Brooklawn and desire for widespread social justice prompted me to enroll as a Master's student at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, where I'm currently in my first year.

Social work is the perfect career path for a CAS major. With the background CAS provides in understanding the dynamics between power and privilege and knowledge of contemporary and historical manifestations of oppression, you've already got the basics down! It is incredibly empowering to see what I learned in academia having real-life applications; CAS is an enduring aspect of my Oberlin experience that has had an immeasurable impact on my life.

FRANCISCO, Melissa B. '05
After graduation, I interned at the Independent Press Association-NY, which later replaced the national Independent Press Association after it collapsed. I helped the non-profit support local community and "ethnic" media and journalists in obtaining access to government agencies and in moving their stories to bigger markets. I also dabbled in freelance writing and started volunteering with the GABRIELA Network, a grassroots feminist solidarity organization. GABRIELA Network's major campaign at the time was justice for a woman who was raped by U.S. servicemen in the Philippines, an ongoing news story that has had international coverage. For the past couple of years, I've been a legal assistant with the ACLU's national Racial Justice Program, helping with litigation and advocacy related mostly to airline profiling and juvenile justice. Through this position, I've been fortunate to witness and participate in a movement to critically examine and ultimately stop a pattern in which students are funnelled into prisons from their schools, or the "school-to-prison pipeline." What I explored academically and practically as a CAS major has been truly invaluable to my career choices and path since I graduated from Oberlin. I'm looking forward to returning to school in the next few years, and to continuing a career in social justice.

FEUSTEL, Jane E. '06
After graduation I joined Colorado Progressive Coalition (CPC) as a one of the lead get-out-the-vote organizers on the successful minimum wage increase campaign and coordinator of the Women's Voices, Women's Vote project. In that role, I did door-to-door outreach to women in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color throughout Aurora, Colorado. Since the 2006 election, I've been working at Colorado Progressive Action, the lobbying arm of CPC, working on various social justice issues including racial justice, voter education/outreach, economic justice, and ending the war in Iraq. I have also been involved as a member of Luz Reproductive Justice Think Tank in Denver. In this group I have had the wonderful opportunity to meet and work with amazing folks. Luz is a space where we can provide support for each other, dialogue about how the intersections of oppression affect us and our communities, and create action to implement a reproductive justice analysis in our communities and throughout Colorado.

More on-point Obies should move to Denver !!! You can stay with me until you a find a place of your own (or just come visit).

HOFFMAN, Rick B. '05
I must admit that life after Oberlin has been hard. It's tough to communicate how amazing and transformative CAS is to people; I've had people say things like, "Oh you just didn't want a job!" After graduating, I interned with a disability nonprofit www.provail.org. Next, I worked as a job coach for adults with developmental disabilities www.inallianceinc.com. After that, I worked as a campaign recruiter for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society www.lls.org/nyc. Currently, I am a FT student at Baruch College's School of Public Affairs working towards a Masters of Public Administration, a perfect complement to the CAS major because it adds more practical skills to our social justice toolkit. I also have two PT jobs, one as the Youth Events and Training Administrator at the New York Road Runners Foundation and the other as a grad assistant for a Baruch professor in the education department, and I volunteer as a cheerleader for charity www.cheerny.org I thank Jan Cooper and Meredith Raimondo for all their love, support, and letters of recommendation and add that CAS needs more classes like Research Methods because I have talked about that experience in so many interviews.

GRABER, Anna '07
I am waitressing and teaching preschool at the Urban Arts Academy in Minneapolis.

SCHREIBER, Sarah '05
After graduation, I began working at Bike Out, a group offering physical health & wellness programs for LGBT youth in Los Angeles. I lost my job when we lost all our funding (yes, CAS students, it happens in the world of nonprofit!) but organized successfully with a group of former staff & volunteers to make sure our programs would continue. They are now happily housed at LifeWorks Mentoring www.lifeworksmentoring.org, where I still volunteer to lead bike trips for baby queers. I'm currently working as a Program Coordinator for Youth Mentoring Connection www.youthmentoring.org, a group running innovative & effective mentoring programs for teens in South Central L.A. I volunteer with AWARE awarehome.blogspot.com, a local white antiracist group, as a member of the facilitation team and the organizing workgroup. I also completed a fellowship with Public Allies www.publicallies.org somewhere along the way. I am grateful for all of my experiences at Oberlin and beyond, and I look forward to 1) always learning and 2) figuring out grad school: the next frontier.