Director of Regional Partnerships and Programs
Contact Information
hadimusz@dickinson.edu
255 W. Louther, 2nd Floor
Biography
Sam joined Dickinson and the CCLA team in August 2024 with a focus on student development, civic program development, and community partner and place-based stewardship. Prior to Dickinson, Sam spent the last five years in the greater Boston area. At Boston College, she helped to design and teach courses in a new interdisciplinary undergraduate program called Transformative Educational Studies (TES) and led research initiatives across the humanities, arts, and social sciences about whole-person, purpose-centered education and inclusive campus geographies. Her most recent research project, funded by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), extrapolated from contemporary “safe space” debates to explore campus place-making in partnership with some of her former students who held salient marginalized identities in higher education. A defining characteristic of her career has been strong and deep commitments to community engagement. Sam supported national service programs through the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation; academic community-engaged programs with the PULSE program at Boston College; social impact and innovation initiatives at the PKG Center for Public Service at MIT; and most recently, the Ripples of Hope Fellowship, an international social change experience for young community leaders in the U.S. and South Africa. Sam brings experience as a liberal arts educator, a community-based practitioner, and an interdisciplinary scholar, which guides her efforts in enriching campus-community partnerships and building diverse, place-based learning environments. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Philosophy from Ursinus College, a Master’s degree in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College. Sam is an avid cook, a voracious reader, and a great lover of poetry and the arts. She and her spouse (both PA natives) live in Lancaster with their daughter, Amelia.