It is so refreshing to meet professionals who are knowledgeable and passionate about their work — especially in Detroit. I know people really hate going to meetings because they’re “boring”, “impractical”, and “time-wasting”. But for me as an intern, I thoroughly enjoy them! There is just so much out there to learn that goes beyond […]
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I don’t understand how it can get so HOT at 9am in the morning. Walking to work has been good since it’s basically my daily exercise but man the heat this past week has been merciless. Yesterday especially was super intense, walking back from work felt like I was inhaling heat and because I wasn’t
Last week Kerrel, Rhonda and I spent our time busily preparing for our first community meeting of the summer. This meeting was crucial in order to organize and raise awareness among residents about the environmental health issues in their community. We took two days before Friday to flyer in River Rouge. On the day of
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This week went by really fast since the holiday was thursday and the office opened late on friday. Though i was excited to start a new project. My original Supervisor had took a vacation and would not be back until next so I work with a new supervisor. The project that she prepared for me,
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This week proved to me that there is always something new to learn each day and I am always not cultured enough. I experienced and learned so many life lessons that I can and will apply to my life. First, I want to mention my introduction to more stereotypes related to African Americans. Through my
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Unfortunately my blog posts have been a little dry lately because I’ve been pretty busy at work, but that’s good because I have learnt a whole heck of a lot. I think an important thing this job taught me about policy is that you shouldn’t always be interested in JUST the “sexy” political topics. By
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What started as a part time gig designing fliers has transformed into my full time creative design job at GRDC because my research project is done. Last week I created two documents “Suspicious Vehicle Guide” and “Suspicious Person Guide,” to help residents better report suspicious activity. Now it might not look like much, but I
Last week I had a lot of trouble getting in contact with the people I need to be interviewing. I went back down to Earthworks Farm to talk to Marilyn because there was an issue with her office phone. We set up an interview, and on Friday I went down and hung out with the
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This is written more for the future spawn of CBRF students; my predecessors rather than the snots I’m working with now (JK I love you guys). This past week, I got next to 0 research work done for the Go Green Challenge. While my mentor, Emile, was out on vacation, I did a lot of
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I walked into work this past Friday to find a surprise. It turned out there was an event taking place that night that I had no idea about. I found out about it in my first staff meeting (that’s right getting official) as the person in charge of DHDC said “So as I’m sure you all know … is
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