DCBRP 2015

I have really enjoyed our Tuesday seminars, and I think they have been a critical part of the program. They bring up current issues in Detroit, and it is great to hear about them from people who are so closely working to come up with solutions. We all get a lot of exposure to issues […]

I have, overall, been very fond of my experiences in the Tuesday seminars. There was always a constant revaluation of my personal perceptions, experiences, and approaches. None of the ways that I thought about Detroit were left unaltered.  I especially liked how the seminars gave a platform to community voices that you don’t hear often.

Overall, my experiences with the weekly seminars and meetings have been neutral-positive, however, I have some criticisms about some of them. Like many of the other participants, I found some of the seminars to be bland, leaving me unengaged and tired by the end of the session. I feel like the content matter of the

Overall, I have really enjoyed our weekly Tuesday seminars during this program. My favorite presentation by far was the one by Amy Krings. In this presentation she explained her dissertation to us through an extensive PowerPoint presentation. I was especially intrigued by the complexities and controversy of the new bridge to Canada getting built in Delray.

I am exhausted. I am tired. I am praying for my life. The narrative I continue to hear more and more about is institutionalized racism. We talk about it like its some new discovery yet is engrained into the very fiber of our existence as Americans and as humans to a large degree. I could

The seminars every Tuesday helped put our work this summer in the context of the city as a whole. We spend most of our time outside of work in Midtown, so sometimes we can lose sight of what is actually happening in the city and our mission to serve Detroiters. The seventh week seminar was

The seminars for this program have been an interesting way to get to know people, learn more about other placements, and reflect on our time in the city. While the Tuesday discussions have been pretty good, the Thursday student-led programming has by far been my personal favorite. The diversity of events has been awesome: from

This Tuesday’s seminar had a tremendous effect of me. Two women from Food and Water Watch come and speak to the group. Before seminar, I thought that I had a decent idea of what Detroit was going through in terms of water shut offs and all… but boy was I in for a surprise. The

The Tuesday meetings were strange. It was interesting to see a lot of our placements given the opportunity to teach us about what they do. It was also interesting to see how many other placements were made out to be villains. It was almost like some of the Tuesday meetings would pit different people in

In the beginning, I found the seminars to be quite boring. They were too long and about topics I wasn’t interested in. As the program has gone on, a few interesting ones have been thrown into the mix. These involved debating and politics,  and I came out of them inspired and driven. Otherwise, there wasn’t