SERVING BEYOND CATHEDRAL FOUR ALUMNI EXHIBIT CSB’S COMMITMENT TO SERVICE IN DYNAMIC WAYS
BY GARRICK RAMIREZ (Felix ‘23)
JASON MCGAUGHEY, Class of 1996
FOR JASON MCGAUGHEY, WHO’S ADVISED EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS in countries such as Afghanistan, Haiti, and Ukraine, it’s about trying to quickly identify where support could be helpful in a community. In his role as the Regional Education Technical Advisor in the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe for Save the Children, McGaughey drafts strategies to ensure children continue to be educated during times of conflict and disaster. Before working abroad, he worked one-on-one with children in the homes of asylum- seeking families throughout the Bay Area. That work eventually led him to Haiti where he taught English in a camp of 60,000 families displaced by the devastating 2010 earthquake. “I really had to draw on things that I had learned about being a humanist, and wanting to help people and participate in the larger community,” says McGaughey. He lauds his Cathedral instructors who made it clear that he and his classmates were given an opportunity that not many others had, and there was an expectation that they do something with it. Today, he wants young people to know that service is more accessible than they might realize. “What I do may seem far-flung, but it doesn’t have to be in Syria,” he says. “Service can be anywhere, it’s just about doing something.”
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