Guest Speaker

Lori Jacobson

L.M.S.W., European Odyssey alumna

Lori is a social worker at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.  She graduated from Hofstra University in 2004 with a bachelor of arts in family studies. Lori participated in the European Odyssey Program during the spring of 2003. During her time at Hofstra, she was actively involved with Hillel, serving as president during her senior year. Lori graduated from Columbia University in 2006 with a master’s of science in social work.

Lori assisted Professors Longmire and Smith with the orientation classes for the European Odyssey, and she is meeting the group in Paris to work on more team building exercises for the first 10 days of the trip. Lori says her European Odyssey experience, which was seven weeks long, taught her a lot “about Europe, community building and myself. I define it as my most important experience at Hofstra.”

Among the challenges she says this year’s Odyssey group will face is the lack of personal space. “It is difficult to travel in a group like this for four months. The honeymoon period will end pretty quickly and they will have to work hard to keep their group together.”