Introducing the 2022 Fellows to Indonesia
Please join us in welcoming our 2022 Indonesia Fellows; Colby Fortin ’22 will be teaching at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. Jack Stevens ’22 will be teaching at Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh.
Colby Fortin (she/her) ‘22 is a Comparative American Studies (CAS) and Politics major from the Adirondack of New York. At Oberlin, she served as a PRSM Trainer, Peer Advising Leader, and OSCA Sexual Health Information Liaison, cultivating her love for community education. Additionally, internships through the Ohio Center for Relationships and Sexual Health and the Department of Social Services have given her a passion for mental health community services. These passions led her to become a licensed crisis counselor at Bay Area Women Against Rape. She has applied her interest in community education and gender-based health through conducting CAS Honors research studying zines, mini-magazines, discussing gender-based violence from the 1990s to today. She is a Jerome Davis and Jere Bruner scholarship recipient, which has critically furthered her research. Colby is inspired by global anti-gender-based violence advocacy and hopes to gain cross-cultural communication and linguistic skills through her Shansi experience.
Jack Stevens (he/him) ‘22 is an Economics major. He has had an Oberlin experience that reflects his love of learning and his interest in business. On campus, he has worked as a research assistant, and has taught in the Experimental College—he created the Ursula K. Le Guin ExCo and led it for its inaugural year. When not engaged in campus activity he was on Bailey Field as a midfielder for Oberlin’s Varsity Men’s Lacrosse team. Jack has pursued professional opportunities off campus. He has worked numerous jobs in the customer service industry and has interned as a market research analyst at Takeda Pharmaceutical’s US franchise. During his final years at Oberlin he worked part-time for Taika, a canned coffee and tea start-up, as a marketing and customer experience associate. Jack is excited that Shansi will help him continue his development as a teacher. Outside the classroom, he plans to explore Indonesia’s coffee scene and learn about the coffee supply chain, and wants to work with local entrepreneurs as a consultant.