Hello everyone! For my blog post this week, I interviewed one of my fellow 2023 DCERP cohort members: Siya! We had a nice conversation in the courtyard outside of our apartment building where we’re staying this summer. I hope you enjoy learning more about her as much as I did! Siya is a rising sophomore […]
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OR interview another DCERP fellow. Find out about where they’re from, a fun fact about them, and some fun facts about their project/community. Visit a new Detroit place or try out a new ice cream flavor together and write about that too. I’m interviewing Emily! Where Are you from? What’s your opinion on it?Pontiac Michigan.
This week I decided to interview one of my roommates, Marie Taylor, a native Detroiter! What do you like to do for fun? I mostly like to play video games, read, draw, write, really anything that allows me to show some creativity. I haven’t had much time to do some of those things due to
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I had an amazing time listening to Ms. Tiffany Brown! I’m thankful that she took the time to come and talk with the DCERP group. She gave an awesome presentation on the wonderful work that she does with the Detroit Food Academy and Developing Despite Distance. Also, she shared the importance of self-care in her
In my blog post this week, I want to focus on an article I read a few days ago about Detroit by the New York Times. (The article is here https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/us/detroit-bankruptcy-anniversary.html). I do want to start off by pointing out that the article does try to frame Detroit in a positive light, highlighting the work
One guest speaker who particularly stood out to me (although all of the speakers gave very insightful presentations!) was Dr. Gloryvee Fonseca-Bolorin, who spoke about mindful organizing and planning. In her presentation, she discussed how to incorporate self-reflection and awareness of one’s emotional and mental state into planning processes. Rather than simply listing every single
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A guest speaker that stood out to me was Ms. Tiffany Brown, who recently spoke about the organizations that she is a part of which includes being executive director of the Detroit Food Academy and founder of 3D; Developing Despite Distance. Parental incarceration is a topic that I know little about, even though I have
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I am choosing to write about an article from Bridge Detroit called “‘Rationing justice’: Legal aid programs struggle to meet high demand” by Nushrat Rahman. “‘We’ve never been funded at a level to really provide services. We are always rationing justice, which is terrible when you really think of that, but that’s what we’re doing,’
Hello again! I just realized I never undrafted this post, so it’s coming a week late! My apologies! It has been a busy week for me in DCERP and NSO. This past week has been comprised of so many moving pieces and it feels as though things at nonprofits change every day, after new information
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Gloryvee coming in to speak with us about mindfulness was something that stood out to me. For me, I am someone who doesn’t like to procrastinate & would rather focus on getting things done before I am able to slow down. Her talk reminded me that there is still more to learn in mindfulness and
