Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Winter 2015 | Page 21

Above and page 18 (top right): Newly constructed
retail stores and affordable housing units are
parts of the redevelopment of the former
Pullman Company steel site, led by David
Doig ’87, president of Chicago Neighborhood
Initiatives. Left: Stephanie Corcoran M.A. ’14.
Below: Congregants gather in 2013 for a year-end
worship gathering at Piedra Principal in Berwyn,
Ill., before the congregation moved to Oak Park.

meet

a Graduate Student

Stephanie Corcoran M.A. ’14 chose to focus

on urban development at Wheaton “because it brings me
joy to hear what a community’s needs are and then be a
small part of the development process.” After graduating
with her master’s degree in Christian formation and
ministry, she began working with Greenhouse Movement,
a church-planting organ