Community Work and Learning

Meet the Staff

Martha Malinski, Director
651.690.8718
mjmalinski@stkate.edu

Martha has seved as the Director of the Center for Community Work and Learning since 2004.

Prior to coming to St. Kate's, Martha worked at Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA ), the Community Service Office at Macalester College, the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota and at the UNESCO Centre at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Martha has also worked with numerous non-profits on human rights.

Martha holds a MA in Education from Goddard College and an Individualized BA in Peace and Social Justice from Gustavus Adolphus College.
 
D'Ann Urbaniak Lesch, Program Coordinator
651.690.6922
dulesch@stkate.edu

D'Ann Urbaniak Lesch has worked as Program Coordinator with the Center for Community Work and Learning since 2007.

D'Ann worked for the Center for Democracy and Citizenship with the Jane Addams School for Democracy from 1998-2007. She has also served in City of Lakes AmeriCorps and taught English in Japan for two years through the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program.

D'Ann obtained a Master's Degree in Education from the University of Minnesota in Youth Development Leadership. Her BA from Drake University was in Sociology and English with a concentration of Cultural Studies.
 
Laura Haynes St. Joseph Worker
651.690.8706
lahaynes@stkate.edu

Laura is working at Community Work and Learning as a St. Joseph Worker. The St. Joseph Worker program is a full time volunteer corps through the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet committed to justice, leadership,  spirituality, and living simply in an intentional community.   Laura is excited to learn more about social justice and higher education over the next year. She graduated in 2009 from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN with a BA in Mathematics and Women's Studies.
 

Yui Hashimoto, College Health Corp VISTA for CWL		Yui Hashimoto, College Health Corps VISTA
651.690.6842
yhashimoto@stkate.edu

Yui graduated from Macalester College in May 2009 with a BA in Geography and minors in Biology, Anthropology and Community and Global Health. Service learning in the community was particularly important to her academic work by connecting theory to practice. She is interested in how non-profits geographically alleviate health disparities as well as the impact of farmers' markets on relationship building, health and the environment.

She is most excited to forge relationships with faculty, students, community members and her office mates to see how she can best serve them. She wants to focus on integrating service learning and community partnerships to support classroom learning, as well as alleviating health disparities through these experiences and relationships.