Jenna Lawson Serving as Ambassador in SUNY Geneseo's Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development

2017 Oct 26

Jenna Lawson is among ten SUNY Geneseo student ambassadors in the college's Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development (CIDD) for the 2017-18 school year.

Student ambassadorships are awards provided by generous donors to fund individual grants of $5,000 each for ambassadors in varied disciplines to carry out self-directed, transformational projects on campus, within the local community or around the world.

Lawson earned the Ambassadorship in Diversity. She is staging, recording, and publishing six unique performances of a late night comedy show running from late September to early December on Friday nights. The show will be performed and filmed in front of a live studio audience and written by and for historically marginalized individuals. The show will combine staples of late night comedy television including monologues, sketches, and musical performances with a type of open-forum approach that leaves space for improvisation and interaction with audiences.

Working through the CIDD, Student Ambassadors pursue opportunities to develop active learning projects that connect academic work, co-curricular experiences, and community engagement. They are encouraged to design projects that ask meaningful questions about real-world problems and issues, synthesize knowledge and skills drawn from multiple disciplines, and make connections between their academic programs, personal experiences, and co-curricular life.

The ambassadorship began last summer and will extend through the school year. This is the sixth year of the ambassadorship program.