Support for Rural Families, Education for Adolescent Males

Tova Neugut was a 2001-02 Hart Fellow working with the Rural Family Support Organization (RuFamSO) in May Pen, Jamaica. Tova assisted the Rural Family Support Organization (RuFamSO) with written and photographic documentation of its various component programs, particularly the Roving Caregivers Programme. Tova also led conflict resolution programs for at-risk youth.

Tova graduated from Brandeis University in 2001 with majors in sociology and politics and additional concentrations in women's studies and peace and conflict studies. After her Hart Fellowship, she designed programming for high school students on racial profiling, the parameters of religious liberty, and bilingual education for the Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston. In 2003, she directed the 21st Century Community Learning Center-a partnership between the Massachusetts Department of Education and a local nonprofit agency to provide students from a low-income community with a high quality, accessible, after-school enrichment program. In 2004, she began a masters program in public policy.