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My community placement is with Voices for Earth Justice. VEJ is an interfaith organization, focused on environmental activism. They own property in the Brightmoor neighborhood, where they manage Hope House and Garden. VEJ has been involved in many different projects and campaigns since their inception in the early 2000s. I’m so excited to be working […]

As is the way with moving to a new place, the second week there always seems to pass faster than the first. Now that I’ve been in Detroit a week already, my environment has become more familiar, the routes committed to memory, and faces have turned from strangers to friends. This summer, I am interning

This summer, I am working with Skylar at Brilliant Detroit at their headquarters in Southwest Detroit. Brilliant Detroit’s mission is to create Kids Success Neighborhoods with the goal of having children be prepared within the K12 education system and closing the achievement gap. Brilliant Detroit works to create Kids Success Neighborhoods because 60% of children

I am an intern at EcoWorks, working on the Michigan Energy Efficiency for All (MEEFA) project (kind of). MEEFA is supposed to be my focus at EcoWorks, as I am an economics and international studies major focusing primarily on poverty alleviation. MEEFA is the Michigan branch of a national non-profit focusing on ensuring energy efficiency

My community placement is at the Chandler Park Conservancy, located on Detroit’s East Side. The organization’s mission is to develop exceptional educational, recreational and conservation opportunities for youth and their families on Detroit’s east side and the region, at Chandler Park. My task this summer is to create and administer surveys on the satisfaction of

The Chandler Park Conservancy was created in 2014 and is a non-profit organization focused on the betterment of the eastside of Detroit. According to my supervisor, there is a stigma around Chandler Park that stems from a few years ago that still carry weight in the community. The Chandler Park Conservancy is working tirelessly to

Hello everyone, I’m working with the Nortown Community Development Corporation (CDC) this summer working on my Detroit Community Based Research Project (DCBRP). Nortown CDC Nortown Community Development Corporation (CDC) was established in 1991, when leaders of the residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional community first gathered to support a community-based and community-controlled economic development collaborative. Nortown

I’ve got my first week in the bag and i’m almost through with the second one. This week went by a lot faster than the last one, and I had much more to do than I did last week, more places to be and people to see. My first full week in Detroit actually wasn’t

Hi, Happy Wednesday! I already touched on my site placement working with the non-profit organization FoodLab Detroit in my last blog post, but I really want to dive a bit more in depth about it because I’m in love with their purpose. FoodLab Detroit is dedicated to food entrepreneurs who operate businesses with a strong

This summer Joy and I are working at an amazing nonprofit called Brilliant Detroit. Brilliant Detroit’s main purpose is to create Kid’s Success Neighborhoods. Kids Success Neighborhoods strive to combat the achievement gap and get children in the community to reading level by third grade. To achieve this, Brilliant Detroit takes an intersectional approach to