"To engage all Wheeling Jesuit University students, faculty and staff in diverse activities that contribute to positive social change and justice; and to prepare them 'for service with and among others' in Wheeling, Appalachia, the nation and the world"

Adrienne Tharp '08

Director

atharp@wju.edu

304-243-8728

Adrienne Tharp graduated from Wheeling Jesuit in 2008 with a BA in Professional Communications. After graduation, Adrienne spent a year in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps serving in Nashville, TN. During this time she worked as a street outreach case manager for homeless, runaway and street youth at the Oasis Center.

After a year of being away, she returned to Wheeling and worked in the Service for Social Action Center as an AmeriCorps Vista focusing on capacity building and sustainability. One way Adrienne was able to accomplish this was by organizing and launching two new service trips to Washington D.C. and El Paso TX which focused on poverty, homelessness and immigration issues.

Now as the Coordinator of the SSAC she develops and oversees domestic and international service immersion trips, identifies service projects for students within the community, tracks student service hours and provides support with reflections and skills development. Adrienne also supervises the H.E.S.S. Mentoring Program, Mother Jones House and the Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ Scholars Program.

Colleen Ryan

Mother Jones House Mentor

cryan@wju.edu

304-243-2567

 

Colleen is originally from Poughquaq, New York, and received her B.A. in American studies from Marist College. Throughout college Colleen was involved in Campus Ministry, the Public Praxis Program, and ran cross country and track from the Red Foxes. After her time at Marist, Colleen spent 18 months volunteering at the Glenmary Farm in Vanceburg, KY. Here Colleen first realized her passion for expressing her faith through service, which is one reason she is here at WJU today.

 

Inspired by her time with the Glenmary Farm, Colleen went on to be a Graduate Assistant in Neighborhood Campus Ministry and received her M.A. in Pastoral Ministry from the University of Dayton. From here, Colleen has come to WJU as the Mentor of the Mother Jones House.

 

The Mother Jones House is an intentional, Christian, service community of WJU students located on 88 14th street. Colleen is excited for all the blessings this year, learning more about the community, as well as having many visitors stop by the house to see for themselves all the great things happening there!

Tom Weinandy

Graduate Assistant

tweinandy@wju.edu

304-243-6244

Hailing from Bowling Green, Ohio, Tom attended college in Cleveland at John Carroll University where he graduated with honors and received a degree in Social Entrepreneurship and Spanish. Tom studied how to build creative solutions to social problems and completed the world’s first undergraduate thesis in Crisis Mapping, which is the use of digital technologies to gather, visualize and analyze information that aids in disaster response.

During college, Tom was a founder and co-president of a Student Today Leaders Forever chapter that provided student planned and lead service trips for over 165 participants. He spent a year as an AmeriCorps volunteer at Boys Hope Girls Hope of Northeastern Ohio where he expanded educational programming for bright and motivated youth from challenging backgrounds, followed by a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA with the Service for Social Action Center and Appalachian Institute.

Tom is excited to remain in the WJU community as a Graduate Assistant while completing his MBA. Tom also likes to hear about people’s backgrounds and aspirations over coffee or lunch; so consider this an invitation to email him and set something up.