Meet Segal Fellow Jimmy Duong (City Year ’09)

Jimmy Duong received the 2008-2009 City Year Bridgebuilder Award. 

Jimmy comes from Alhambra, Calif.  Raised by a single mother who emigrated from Vietnam, Jimmy went to UCLA where he earned his B.A. in History and graduated with college honors.  Right after college, Jimmy dedicated two years to national service though AmeriCorps by joining City Year Los Angeles.  Jimmy worked alongside seven others and then led a team of nine at Hollenbeck Middle School in Boyle Heights.  Jimmy always had a strong passion for education and currently hopes to pursue a career in education or public policy.

 From 2008-2009, Jimmy served as a City Year Los Angeles Senior Corps member where he led a team of nine at Hollenbeck Middle School in the impoverished neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles County.  At Hollenbeck Middle School, more than 80 percent of the students Jimmy’s team worked with improved by one grade level.  The team also ran an after school program with more than 70 enrolled students.  As a Senior Corps member, Jimmy also led a planning committee for a college fair with 100 attendees and started an internal publication group that produced five bi-monthly newsletters, a literary magazine, and a yearbook.  

Jimmy joined Coro Southern California as a Fellow in public affairs in September 2009.  His goals include learning more about work in the field of public policy and to attend graduate school in public policy.