By: Javacia Harris Bowser When Albert Schweitzer Fellow Kate Hultquist started her part-time job at Samford University’s Office of Accessibility and Accommodations, she wanted more than some extra income. As…
Demetric Jones and Samantha Chapman, 2023-24 ASF Fellows, joined a group of UAB School of Optometry's Student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (SVOSH) trip team spending three days providing comprehensive…
This year we are proud to be working with 8 schools and programs situated within 4 higher education institutions: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Auburn University, Samford University and the…
By: Javacia Harris Bowser Long before Abigail Weyerman was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, she was committed to helping people experiencing hearing loss get the treatment that they need. In an…
ASF: What have you been up to since you left us in 2022? Malik Seals: After graduating in 2022, I moved to Atlanta, GA, and began a master’s program in…
As this school year kicks off, one of our new Fellows, Keith Matthews, agreed to answer a few questions about how to get it all done in a busy season.…
By: Javacia Harris Bowser Dr. Richard Kennedy has served as a mentor during two different cohorts of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and plans to continue to help out in the…
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By: Javacia Harris Bowser For all Americans to have adequate access to healthcare important polices must be changed. But how can we better care for the uninsured in the meantime?…
What program are you in and what type of practice are you preparing for? We are both third year optometry students at UAB’s School of Optometry. We have a 2025…
By Javacia Harris Bowser Since the early 2000s, Cahaba Valley Health Care has been providing free vision and dental screenings to the Greater Birmingham community. Edwina Taylor founded Cahaba Valley…
By: Javacia Harris Bowser Albert Schweitzer Fellow for Life Hadiyah Page believes in the transformative power of the arts. For her 2020-2021 fellowship project, she partnered with Impact Family…
Recent Fellows for Life Andres Tovar and Leandra Durham provide thoughts on choosing and working with Community Partners. Andres Community Partner was Lee County Youth Development Center and Leandra worked…
What program are you in and what type of medicine do you hope to practice? I am a student at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, and I just finished my…
By: Javacia Harris Bowser The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship is excited to partner with the Arts in Medicine Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham this year and work with…
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By: Javacia Harris Bowser When Collin Dorner and his project partner Eric Mussell began their Albert Schweitzer Fellowship they wanted to find a way to do in-depth, one-on-one work with…
OD/MBA student Demetric Jones will be spending the next 13 months in service to the Birmingham-area Hispanic community through a prestigious Albert Schweitzer Fellowship opens a new website. Jones is part of…
By: Michael Sznajderman As undergraduate students at Tuskegee University who were active in community service, Joi Chinakwe and Micah Grey saw firsthand the many challenges faced by people living in underserved areas of…
By: Javacia Harris Bowser Dr. Deborah Bowers was a proud member of the first Alabama cohort of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship for the 2016-2017 academic year. Today she is an…
by Satina Richardson Four UAB School of Optometry (UABSO) students have been selected by the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of Alabama (ASF) to serve as Alabama Schweitzer Fellows. This marks the…
Last month our 2023-24 Fellow cohort gathered with ASFA’s director, Kristen Boggs, and action learning coach, Keaton Johnson, to officially start their work for Alabama as Schweitzer Fellows. I asked…
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By Javacia Harris Bowser When Micah Grey and Joi Chinakwe were students at Tuskegee University they made serving the community of Macon County, where the school is located, a top…
By: Javacia Harris Bowser Albert Schweitzer Fellow Andres Tovar isn’t one to spout religion, but it was a Bible verse that helped him decide to work with youth for his…
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by Adam Pope The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of Alabama has announced the incoming 2023-24 fellows class, which includes 12 students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The Alabama Schweitzer Chapter was founded…
By: Javacia Harris Bowser Albert Schweitzer Fellows Dara Johnson and Zoie McIntosh both knew they wanted to spend their fellowship time promoting pediatric oral health, but they were having a…
By: Javacia Harris Bowser When Frances Ford first learned that she’d been selected as the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship’s Humanitarian of the Year she was shocked. “I kept thinking, who would…
By: Javacia Harris Bowser Your zip code shouldn’t determine how healthy you are. Unfortunately, we live in a society where it often does. But Albert Schweitzer Fellow Chelsea Gayre is…
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By: Javacia Harris Bowser Gun violence and homelessness are two of the greatest social problems the City of Birmingham and surrounding areas are facing right now. Issues like these can…
Dr. Ayanda Chakawa, PhD, entered into the first cohort of ASF Alabama Fellows in 2016-17 as a PhD student in Auburn University’s department of Psychology. She partnered with the Macon…
Current Fellows Renee Pan and Anthony Wilson Reflect on Lessons Learned at the ASF Winter Retreat By: Javacia Harris Bowser Who cares for the caregivers?` Unfortunately, this isn’t a question…
The Board of Directors of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of Alabama is pleased to announce the fourth-annual Give Thanks fundraiser to support the work of the 2023-24 Fellowship cohort. This…
The Alabama Schweitzer Fellowship is excited to release data on the cumulative results of Fellows in the 2022-23 cohort as well as since the program's beginning in 2016. This report…