Empowering Young Leaders
Our Mission
Ouray County PeaceJam is dedicated to engaging young leaders who are committed to making a positive impact in their communities. We aim to inspire students from Ridgway and Ouray School Districts to take action and create meaningful change through service projects.
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About Sveri
Sveri Stromsta May was a teacher at Loy Norrix High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan where she taught from 1998 to 2021. The Loy Norrix PeaceJam became a local member of the International PeaceJam Foundation in 2002. Her PeaceJam members met every Thursday morning before 1st period. They did 45 service projects a year. Along with local projects she took PeaceJammers to Boston, Washington DC, New York City and the United Nations, twice to Peru, India, Vietnam, Cuba and South Africa. The service project in Kenya got cancelled due to the COVID. Sveri received a Lifetime Award from PeaceJam for her volunteer PeaceJam efforts in 2019.
Sveri and her husband John moved to Ridgway in 2021 to be closer to her daughter, son-in law and grandson. PeaceJam is available for students from Ridgway and Ouray Schools who wish to do community service projects. Approximately 25 service projects a year are accomplished with the hopes that the Ouray County PeaceJammers can see other community service projects that they would like to see and help organize.