July 2017

So far, my placement with Develop Detroit has been great. The office is extremely lax with and very diverse. Outside of work, I’ve been spending a lot of time outside of my apartment with other people in the program. We’ve gone out to eat, attended different event, or generally enjoyed each other’s time. I’ve also […]

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/06/30/detroits-henry-hatter-close-downtown/103313828/ A couple weeks ago I was biking downtown and a shop called Henry the Hatter stood out to me. It had a big, old looking sign and seemed like a small business. I thought that it great that a business like that was able to survive through both the hard economic times and the

The most convenient and amazing thing happened this past week: my work office moved from Southwest Detroit to Cass Commons! Literally, it is right across the street from WSU University Towers. However, there are two cons about the new move. The new building does not have air conditioning; so, it can become really muggy inside.

At my work, I’ve come across companies that heavily pollute the environment but then support environmental nonprofits. This support gives makes it seem like they care about the community, although they are causing the problems the nonprofits are trying to solve. I wonder if these companies are feeling guilty about their actions and are trying to do

I understand this question wants me to think on the cultural cues I have received at my DCBRP placement, but I thought I would broaden my thoughts on how I’ve noticed culture cues within the City of Detroit, my DCBRP placement, and the apartments: Detroit Culture cues: I’ve noticed many cultural cues within Detroit and

My DCBRP placement has me thinking a lot on Public Education. Please, bear my thoughts: Wasn’t that the American promise?  Work hard, do well in school, and you can have a better life?  This promise fosters an organic hope, which leads you to believe that even if you are born in the wrong neighborhood, that

This past weekend was, by far, one of the best weekends I’ve had this summer! To be honest, once Friday night comes for the DCBRP cohort, things get a little dry at University Towers, but this weekend I was able to make the best of it. Some of my closest friends in the internship decided

Something that has been on my mind recently is scale. Everyone in this program appreciates community, as it is the Detroit Community Based Research Program. We are all immersing ourselves in specific communities in Detroit at our various jobs. This is the smallest scale you can get, working down at the very local level. One

Yesterday, Ayat and I held our first Art for Learning’s Sake event at COTs Detroit’s headquarters. I’m going to break it down screenplay form for the sake of clarity and also, (selfishly) for myself to relive it all over again. ACT 1  Scene 1: Getting to COTs Characters :  Ayat, Jean, an Uber driver named

At this point in the Detroit Community Based Research Program, I feel settled in! I feel more at home than ever this week. I have a routine established and I am loving my time here at this program. This program has given me a glimpse of what life will be after college. Each day I