Schwab Alumni Grant

Derek Westfall ’95, U.S. State Department representative to the provincial reconstruction team in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, received a Lori Ann Schwab Alumni Grant.

Westfall will work with his wife, Shayne Beschta ’95, to purchase books in Farsi and English for the Children’s Support Center of Kunduz. The center was founded with a grant from the U.S. State Department to provide shelter and education for the children of prisoners.

The grants, named for the late Lori Ann Schwab ’95 — who died in 1994 while a student at Grinnell — are presented annually to people who graduated from Grinnell between 1992 and 1998 and who are staff members or volunteers in nonprofit service organizations and public schools. Megan Lewis ’95 and Kristin Stuchis ’98 also received Schwab alumni grants this year. Partnering with Friends of the Children in Portland, Ore., Lewis will use the grant to provide vulnerable children with a professional mentor. Stuchis, of Duluth, Minn., will use the grant to support training that will allow her to teach yoga to people of all ages and abilities through Udac, Inc.