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Ella Turenne

Assistant Dean for Community Engagement
turenne@oxy.edu

Ella Turenne is Assistant Dean for Community Engagement at Occidental College where she works with students to foster their engagement with communities in the city of Los Angeles.  In this capacity, she directs the Office for Community Engagement, advises student organizations, manages programs such as the Alternative Break Program and various days of service, and fosters partnerships with community organizations.  She was also co-chair of the Civic Engagement Task Force at Occidental College.  She holds an MSW from the Boston University School of Social Work with a concentration in macro social work and a focus on community organizing, program development and fundraising.  Prior to working at Occidental, she was Director of Special Projects at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts.  In this capacity, she oversaw community based learning courses, the Lang Outdoors program, diversity programming, alternative breaks, the Lang Prison Education Program and other community engagement projects.  She also has done close to a decade's worth of work around incarceration issues.  Ella has been published in various anthologies including Letters From Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out.  She is on the Executive Board of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, a national organization that seeks to increases opportunities for men and women, inside and outside of prison, to have transformative learning experiences.

 

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