I can’t believe this is it. We have finally reached week 9 which is INSANE because I honestly feel like the first week when I joined my first staff meeting at SDEV, nervously introducing myself and becoming acclimated to the work environment was only yesterday. I have not fixed my sleep schedule haha. In fact, …
It’s insane how fast time flies and how we’re already finishing up week 8. I feel like it was only yesterday when I wrote my letter to my future self and yet here we are! These past few weeks I have been blessed to have been informed so much from not only guest speakers thanks …
I really didn’t know how our DCERP group would function going completely online, without that in-person living community and face-to-face interactions. I still find it weird that I’ve been talking to so many people and getting to know so many people completely online thus far! Since this is a unique situation that no one has …
I saw briefly the title of Mackenzie’s blog saying how it’s week 6 already, and I completely resonate. I feel like it was only yesterday that I was meeting my supervisors for the first time, figuring out all the lingo and dialogue that my co-workers use and all the mechanics that I needed to learn. …
Even though this news article is slightly old, and isn’t even a news article but a video, I still remember it as one of the most striking things I saw for a while. The New York Times covered a special segment of the police’s tactics against the protests in Philadelphia. Specifically, the video highlighted the …
On my first official day at SDEV, I remember so clearly my supervisor wearing her signature turquoise glasses with a flamboyant floral top, hair naturally down and appearance having no touch-ups. I, on the other hand embarrassingly, was wearing a blazer and a button-down shirt, with only one button undone from the top, hair heavily …
I don’t live in Detroit, or better yet even Michigan. I didn’t even know that Detroit was in Michigan until I came to the University of Michigan. And yet, here I was falling more and more passionate with a city I am still discovering for myself. Through different extracirricular acitivities I’m invovled with, talking with …
This summer I have the privilege interning at Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision. The nonprofit organization works to improve the environment and strength the economy of Southwest Detroit through their projects. Working together with local residents, community organizations, and government agencies, SDEV works to combat environmental issues in the area. For this summer, I am tasked …
Dear Future Me, Just imaging the future, 9 weeks from now, seems like an impossible task to do in light of how fast today’s climate is constantly changing and how hectic this first week at SDEV has been. Coming from a potato quarantine-self has been somewhat of a difficult transition into a full-time internship position. …
