Karin Carthins, Africana Studies and Sociology Majors and Food Studies Certificate
Karin Carthins is a senior at ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app pursuing an Africana Studies and Sociology double major with a Food Studies Certificate. Karin obtained their high school diploma from The Milton Hershey School which is a cost-free, private, co-residential school and home for children from lower income families located in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Throughout their Dickinson career they have served as The Farm, Cook, Eat Coordinator for the ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app Farm, The Training and Education Coordinator for The Office of LGBTQ+ Services, a House and Apartment Manager for Residence Life and Housing, and a Prison Inmate Tutor at The Cumberland County Prison.
In the summer of 2018 they enrolled in an Ethnographic Field School in Tanzania, Africa. While conducting research in Kibatata village, an area historically affected by colonization and contemporarily suffering from food insecurity and malnutrition, they did not want their study to further the discourse around food deficiency and health status. Instead, they explored the cultural process behind food, as literature reflecting this subject has predominantly been published on wealthier countries.
Karin has accepted a position with Teach For America to work in opposition to the low expectations of poor students that reproduce inequality in education. It is their desire to use their lived experiences, as a low-income person of color, to mentor underprivileged Black youth. They will join Teach For America’s 2019 corp as a Special Education teacher for California Bay Area Community.