And now...an excerpt of our interview with the incomparable Elizabeth Flamm! This lady, a grad of the University of Maryland, is serving her second AmeriCorps year in the small mountain town of Morton, Washington. Check it out:
So, what does National Service mean to you? Why'd you choose to be apart of national service?I didn't choose to do national service for the idealistic reason. I chose to do National Service because I want to do the Peace Corps, and I need to be qualified-- so I chose to do AmeriCorps.
But the same could be true for…I could answer the question in regards to why I volunteered before, why I thought Peace Corps was important. I think…when you're born into privilege, it's very little to do with you, it's just luck and and circumstance that you happen to have a good public school and you happen to have parents who were supportive. And I think it's an obligation you have at some point to try and make the world a bit more fair… in terms of resources or wealth or services.
