From five compelling candidates, ITL has selected Ray Sorock. First each application was reviewed and scored by a three person Selection Committee. Then each was interviewed and scored by the three of us. Ray is the candidate who had the highest combined score valuing both ability to achieve success with a self-selected project while also in significant need of a professional opportunity.
Ray will now be charged with designing a project in collaboration with a Pittsburgh area Non-Profit Organization and executing it across the first 10 months of 2011.
Below is Ray's bio and photo. Please check back here each week for information about the matching process with an area non-profit, Ray's progress, and ways to contribute.
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Ray grew up in Massachusetts, learning to love the outdoors, local history, and making the best of suburban life. He achieved a B.A. in Literature from Purchase College in New York in 2008. He moved to the Pittsburgh area after falling in love with the city and lived and worked on an organic farm for seven months.
Now he spends his time baking cookies at a coffee shop in Lawrenceville, reading nerdy books, and riding his bike. He is passionate about good health care access, environmentally-friendly food production, and art that doesn't look like Art.
Friends encouraged him to apply for the fellowship and he is excited to work with and learn from the ITL team to create a worthy project for a local organization.
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