Asalam Alaikum, It’s already been 2 months, and I feel as though we have barely cracked the surface. Going into this project, I was ecstatic to be joining this project and couldn’t wait to learn all about the work that is going on at the ground level. I was always interested in the nonprofit space …
One week left! It’s hard to believe that our time in this program has almost come to an end. I can say that working on the evaluations for Friends of Parkside has definitely been a learning curve. It was my first time leading a project like this, and it was much more challenging than I …
This week I interviewed my site director Naim Edwards about his inspiration for the DPFLIs project this year which is the food forest. This project will establish an edible forest at the DPFLI by will planting around 200 fruit and nut trees to increase access and community familiarity with a variety of crops. Over time, …
This week, the other intern at my site and I have been working together to ensure that our meditation program proposal is ready for presentation to the Director of the Office of Civil Rights, Inclusion, and Opportunity. This process has been bittersweet: it feels so good to be close to the end of a project …
This last weekend we finally made it out to the DIA and I had a great time. I spent nearly four hours in the museum and still didn’t see everything. While I had visited the museum on a school trip before, I must have either not seen the Rivera mural or had completely forgotten about …
Now that the program is nearing its end, it’s a little bizarre to think that it’s only been a couple months of my life. I spend almost every day working at a desk next to my mentor’s, and because of that, I hear story after story of the projects she’s been a part of, the …
I am so glad I got to work with my community site to help identify which of the kids (they provided services to) are in the chronic absenteeism data collected from the school district. In general, they have been trying to find ways they could help students that are experiencing homelessness stay in school and …
When I look back on the progress I have made working with ProsperUs, I can’t help but feel accomplished and confident that there will be more work put into the research I leave behind. I do feel like there is much more that I can do in the research and much of what we wanted …
Our guest speaker Dr. Peter Kim stood out to me because I had never heard about the murder on Vincent Chin and the amount of hate towards Asians and Asian Americans in the auto industry. I was aware that foreign auto companies were a huge competitors for American auto industry but I had no idea …
This week signals the end of a lot of things for me. My birthday is this Saturday, which means the end of being a teenager. It’s also the second to last week here at DCERP, which has definitely been a little bittersweet. I have grown so much throughout the past couple of months here in …
