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Kaity Trinidad '05 Named a 2004 Clark Foundation Fellow
 Kaity Trinidad '05, an Urban Studies major, has been named a 2004 Clark Foundation Fellow. Established in 1995, the Clark Foundation Fellowship Program provides grants to undergraduate students to assist them in pursuing careers in community-based nonprofit organizations in New York City. Each Fellow receives a $30,000 award, which includes a salary stipend and tuition assistance toward a relevant Master's degree at a university in New York City. During the first year of the program (concurrent with the senior year), the Clark Foundation runs a leadership retreat, seminars and workshops for the fellows addressing practical issues related to graduate education and employment.
Kaity Trinidad has been working for non-profit organizations since she was 15-years-old and managing community events and mentoring programs at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, where she grew up. Active in non-profits through high school, she continued when she came to Barnard, interning at various community-based organizations such as Citizens for NYC, an organization that mobilizes New Yorkers to improve their neighborhoods. Primarily interested in public health, specifically in low income communities, Trinidad currently interns for the Center for Immigrant Health at NYU. She's using her experience there as material for her thesis, which focuses on the resources and responses to breast cancer in the Washington Heights area of Manhattan.
Kaity is the fifth Barnard student to be honored with a Clark Fellowship, which was established in 1995 and makes four to six awards a year. For more information, contact Elissa Matsueda at ematsued@barnard.edu.
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