Saint Stephen

Christina Pommer was recently awarded a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for Humanities and a scholarship to attend Ethel Walker School.

BRADENTON -- A middle and upper school librarian at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School, was recently awarded a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as a scholarship to attend the Ethel Walker School’s summer symposium on food and sustainability.

For the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, Christina Pommer,  will attend a summer institute on ”John Steinbeck: Voice of a Region, Voice for America.“ Educators will be immersed in the social history and ecological awareness that inform Steinbeck’s fiction: local agricultural and fishing industries, the California mission legacy, migrant histories that shaped regional diversity, and an interest in marine studies. 

The stipend will allow her to work with professors from Stanford University and San Jose State University, as well as teachers from across the country. The ithree-weeks-long instituttion takes place in California locales that feature in Steinbeck’s writing, including Monterey, the Salinas Valley, and along the Pacific Coast.

The Ethel Walker School of Simsbury, Connecticut is hosting a symposium for the educational community on ”Food System Literacy in Classrooms, Cafeterias, and Communities.“ Participants will attend workshops on school-farm partnerships, the ethics of agriculture, and community sustainability initiatives. The symposium is held in June, and educators from independent schools around the country will attend.

Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School, a college preparatory school for students in from age 3 through twelfth grade, is located at 315 41st Street West, Bradenton.