{"id":559,"date":"2024-10-24T15:15:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/?p=559"},"modified":"2025-04-21T15:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:02:45","slug":"alumni-spotlight-brooks-hosfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/2024\/10\/24\/alumni-spotlight-brooks-hosfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Spotlight: Brooks Hosfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooks Hosfeld is a Butler University 2019 graduate in History & Anthropology and Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies (now Race, Gender, & Sexuality Studies). He currently works as the Development Director of Sprout City Farms in Denver CO.<\/p>\n

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Q: How has your experience in the HAC Department helped you after graduation?<\/em><\/p>\n

A: My experience in what was previously just the History & Anthropology department has been foundational to the ways I see the world and approach my career. I got into fundraising through museum work, in which various museum and archive collections internships during college introduced me to grant writing. My academic writing within the department made me a very strong grant-writer, and this department equipped me to build the professional insight necessary to intersect my passions for justice and community into professional spheres.<\/p>\n

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Q: How have your Majors helped in your current position?<\/em><\/p>\n

A: The COVID-19 pandemic moved me away from museums and into more fundraising roles through small community organizations, and I have since ended up flourishing in nonprofit development. Skill-building aside, my degrees and the support I received from Butler faculty have been essential to the ways I perceive current events, communicate with people who want to build a better future (in part by avoiding mistakes of the past), and build relationships in both personal and professional spheres. I love when I’m asked how I got into fundraising for an urban farming nonprofit, because I get to offer a surprise of saying that I was professionally trained in history and anthropology, and that every step to get me where I have been a happy, semi-intentional accident.<\/p>\n

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Q: Any plans moving forward?<\/em><\/p>\n

A: After doubling the organization’s operating budget in three years, I am currently seeking other professional opportunities to grow. In and out of work, I root myself in community and the belief that collective liberation is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brooks Hosfeld is a Butler University 2019 graduate in History & Anthropology and Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies (now Race, Gender, & Sexuality Studies). He currently works as the Development Director of Sprout City Farms in Denver CO.   Q: How has your experience in the HAC Department helped you after graduation? A: My experience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197940,"featured_media":560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463395,308439],"tags":[120504,230447,13708],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-interview-series","category-interviews","tag-alumni","tag-anthropology","tag-history","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}