"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." –D. Bonhoeffer
Em Gormley's Biography
Impact Alabama’s fundamental staffing model relies on employing talented, intelligent, and socially conscious recent college graduates for one or two years following graduation. Our team members travel statewide to implement our signature initiatives, earning only a modest stipend for their tremendous service.
Help sponsor a team member by contributing to Impact Alabama.
Em Gormley
Regional Coordinator
Em Gormley, a native of Lansing, Michigan, graduated from Oberlin College in May 2011 with a B.A. in art history and anthropology. While at Oberlin, Em served as an Accessibility Coordinator for the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, a non-profit student cooperative which provides housing and dining for 620 student-members. In that role, Em sat on the organization’s Board of Directors and organized and trained a committee of 15 elected co-op members to carry out social justice education projects in their co-ops. Em also volunteered as a workshop facilitator for the Oberlin Multicultural Resource Center, co-facilitated a student-taught course on anti-racist organizing, and taught storytelling and creative writing workshops for adults with developmental disabilities at the Murray Ridge Center. Em has interned at Reach Studio Art Center in Lansing, Michigan, and at the Morgan Conservatory of Papermaking in Cleveland, Ohio. Em recently published an essay in the 2011 Oberlin Senior Studio Catalog, a collaborative project between the art history and studio art departments at Oberlin which documents the thesis projects carried out by senior studio art majors. Following service with Impact Alabama, Em plans to attend graduate school in visual studies or art history.
